skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would understand if Battlefield3 used up a lot of space, but when apps similar to the complexity of bejeweled are using hundreds of MB clearly the developer is just being lazy. Most apps/games on my ipad seem to be around 20MB so when there are a few that are 20 times larger they quickly get deleted.

As for Google books, they clearly took the time and effort to make their download small. Even "hello world" flashlight type apps on my ipad are bigger in size. And saying their app doesn't do much as the reason is also silly (ibooks in comparison is 50MB). I single them out as they definitely did take the extra little bit of time to make their package small.

Go into itunes and view your apps by size. You might be surprised what is small and what is big.
Another option for Sublime: https://github.com/fbzhong/sublime-jslint
Do you have any examples of sites/companies that put the techniques into use as a direct result of Evercookie exposing them?

EDIT: Why am I being downvoted for this question? I am seriously interested, so that I can avoid contact with them.
Why Are Lawyers So Expensive Even With The Excess Supply Of Lawyers?
Up in a new location: http://fortawesome.github.com/Font-Awesome/
Which European country does not have a constitution?
I agree the second example is more understandable, but I think most of that benefit comes from named parameters (a language feature), not the naming convention itself. That is, were the naming up to me, I would prefer:

NSString *filtered = [unfiltered replace:@"verbose"
with:@"explicit"
options:CaseInsensitive
range:Range(0, [unfiltered length])];

Of course, I'm making assumptions about what those parameters mean. But I find this much more clear, assuming the intentions are what I think they are.
Is she really interested in learning? Or is she just being nice to you accepting this?

Anyway, I'd start with HTML and Javascript. More familiar territory for a complete beginner.
It's not just the assistance to authorities, but the fact that he brought actionable intelligence that brought arrests towards others. His getting other LulzSec members arrested and prosecuted is key to diminishing his own sentences.

Other hackers have offered help and not proven useful, only to find themselves up a creek with little to no lightening of their sentences.
By this logic, California is 50 years ahead of Alabama, and New York is 10 years ahead of California.
Looks really sharp.
In-Your-Face: Can Computers Catch You Telling a Lie?
"Luckily this was only after Anonymous put together their new decentralized teams that do the footwork now."

"Luckily" ?
Article gets it all right but in the end it misses a larger point: these pundits, writers, and bloggers have motivations behind these ridiculous claims they make. Those motivations are personal preference, ignorance, desire for clicks, and... wait for it... some are paid shills in one way or another. I'd venture to guess that a lot of the unrealistic things being written about the iPad are born from those motivations. For big tech sites I'd say the paid shills reside there. For bloggers with big audiences I'd say paid shill-ism and personal bias play into that. And for nobodies I'd say ignorance and personal bias are their motivations.

When it comes to reviews its good to follow the money. It'll lead to why a review recommends one thing over another. That then trickles down to smaller sites. The little guys echo what the big guys say and hope they can ride some coat tails and get some Adsense revenue. Just take a look at any tech scandal like the Path address book fiasco. As soon as it became a big story everyone wanted in on the action and most everyone just echoed the popular opinion.
I'm still not clear on the "Getting rid of Facebook" process. If I recall correctly, there are three levels. First, you can simply deactivate it ("I've got a big project this week guys, so no Facebook for me.").

A step further, and this is where I think I am, is the "delete" option, where you, small 'd', "delete" Facebook, but your information is still there in case you want to come back. It's not accessible to your buddy Joe Blow, but it's there.

Finally, and I might be wrong here, but there is a big 'D' "Delete" option, where facebook deletes your info "permanently" or as "permanently" as they'd like you to believe.

I don't plan on going back to facebook soon, but I'm with you in worrying at times that a sensitive employer would look at a "deleted" or "Deleted" facebook and think "What is this guy trying to hide?"
The app Stephen listed isn't mine. You won't find it in the market because it's "suspended". It was literally a fork of the system keyboard with the symbols page having math related symbols.
Personally, I dislike how the moderator system for subreddits uses a oldest-first hierarchy, where older moderators can always remove newer ones. Hence, a subreddit has no such thing as equal moderators. There is always one "on top", as such.
England doesn't have a constitution as far as I know.
For having as much money as Google does (presumably), they really don't invest in design talent all that much. This UI is killing me.

Edit: Which is kind of bizarre because they hired this guy a while back: http://dribbble.com/KounterB
Exactly. It also evokes the idea of 'playing' with a new program or gadget, something done with non-game applications all the time.
Google+ shares numbers with NYTimes
> "It is absolutely remarkable that Google isn't on this yet."

I wonder if it isn't a situation similar to their slow speed in getting the international interfaces for android market off the ground: that is, for-pay "Apps" are simply not aligned with Google's preferences or best-interests.

They would, I'd imagine, very much like the idea of for-pay apps to simply go away. Not only do for-pay apps threaten the money-train that Google's advertising network has built, but they threaten the relevance of search itself, should more and more data disappear behind proprietary interfaces.

So what motivation does Google really have, to throw resources at the problems facing paid-app economics?

(edit: spelling)
Does bitcoin really have a part in this whole problem?

If you substitute "TradeHill" for "E*Trade" and "bitcoins" for "stocks" the problem would still be the same, right?
SEEKING WORK - iOS Developer

iOS Developer located in San Francisco. App Development, Cocoa Touch, Objective-C.

Portfolio: http://www.bixbyapps.com
Phone: 415-997-9706
Email: Steve@bixbyapps.com
I use SublimeLinter with JSHint: https://github.com/Kronuz/SublimeLinter
.local seems to be safe for now
Great stuff. I always wonder what it's like when freelancers do this.
Broadband costs set to soar as BT and TalkTalk lose copyright bid
That is quite amazing to learn. How are the farmers not granted "citizenship" as it were, in their own country once they move to another part of it and presumably contribute to the local economy?
Edmodo Launches Third-Party Platform For Education Apps
I've worked with Wes (the PL class instructor), and he gives excellent lectures. It's great to see Udacity recruiting such high-quality professors.
So, if you moved to swomb.at, would you just redirect swombat.com to it? Is that a way people can have the best of both worlds?

1- you own the .com domain for branding, people understand it etc

2- your site isn't actually a .com

Would SEO be hurt by doing something like this?
And for purely political reasons, you will NEVER see Congress as a whole come out against the President like that. For example, back when Obama (illegally) attacked Libya, our Congress wouldn't even formally condemn Obama's actions.

The Democrats won't put the brakes on it because it would interfere with the power they're currently enjoying. And the Republicans won't do it because they too covet that power after the next election.
In UK we have the Criminal Records Bureau who provide a full record check for people in certain occupations (working with children, prison/police/uniformed services &c)

http://www.homeoffice.gov.uk/agencies-public-bodies/crb/

I have three current CRB 'disclosures' as I worked for three employers for a brief period last year. A full disclosure is not limited to convictions but can include cautions and other information that the police may have. Bit more concrete than some prison manager having a quick look at a facebook profile.

"Aside from the free speech concerns, Shear also thinks colleges take on unnecessary liability when they aggressively monitor student posts."

Yes, I'd have thought there was a huge vicarious liability/duty of care issue with this. I don't want to know what my students put on their facebook accounts!

"Goemann also noted that the rush to social media monitoring raises an often overlooked legal concern: It's against Facebook's Terms of Service."

That occurred to me as well as soon as I read past the first few sentences. Many people on this forum provide Web services. Do you actually have any way/interest in enforcing this aspect of the typical ToS or is it just there as some kind of protection for you?
"...and letting me consume videos and stuff in a trusted media player plugin."

HTML5 generally solves this with <audio> and <video>. If implemented correctly by browsers, they should not require any scripting on the site itself to work.

That said, "trusted" media player plugins (think Flash) have been the targets of many successful attacks as well.
Yeah this seems more like a bug/oversight on the G+ team's part than something planned.
Until we get driverless cars, I don't see this disruption really occurring. Big cities are the only places with enough density to support car sharing, and they already have low car ownership rates (low enough that if everybody switched to car sharing, it wouldn't be a disruption).

Even assuming everything goes splendidly with Google's self-driving cars, it is going to take a long time to move from that to fully autonomous, driverless cars. This isn't going to get disrupted until the mid-2020's, IMO.

On the other hand, using the Internet to efficiently aggregate low-use, high-cost resources is a great way to build a business. It is at the core of cloud computing, Air BnB, and (successful) Groupon promotions. I'm sure others exist as well.
Because there are no H-1B lawyers.
This is mistaken.

Committed/careful/smart organizations already exist. But they aren't motivated by publicity and lols. They make serious money through industrial espionage and financial fraud, and they stay as under the radar as possible. Everyone who has a credit or debit card has likely experienced having that information being stolen in one way or another. Those activities aren't just accidents or pranks by bored teens.

Organized crime is well invested in these sorts of things, and for every one incident you hear about there are dozens or hundreds you don't.
Anymore, I consider system wide package installation to be a liability, not a feature. The whole point/purpose of npm or composer is local installation. Look at the mess of Gem/Bundler and then you have to factor in that rvm and rbenv are basically designed to isolate system wide installation because of the problems associated with system wide installations.
IOS 5.1 Gold Master passes QA
They're counting YouTube and the Android Marketplace as Google Plus-enhanced products? Well, then of course those numbers are high. I'd like to see how much direct traffic Google Plas receives.
Do you think lawyers from other countries know US law? I don't think so. You will pretty much have to start over in US.
As mentioned in the article, this could be adapted to make a useful polyfill for those browsers which don't offer SQLite access natively.
What website is useable these days though without Javascript?
I was looking for a netbook or laptop, and i ought to dig more, but I gave up that afternoon because the M$ tax started to piss me off. Anyone have much luck not having to pay for windows outside of a pieced-together system?
Per capita GDP is one thing, a lot more important is per capita income. Those are two very different things, particularly when you're talking about China - a country with a billion extremely poor people, and a lot of mega corporations that the state has blessed with near monopolies. What you want to know, is: how much money are the people of China keeping out of that huge economy.

Per capita income in the US is closer to $40k, and in China it's closer to $3,600 to $4k. In 1990, it was closer to $350 to $450 range (IMF).

The focus always goes to China's per capita GDP, but it's a very misleading way to measure economic parity. People get upset about America's wealth inequality - China's wealth inequality is several orders of magnitude worse.
I think most Android users who've downloaded an app recognize the Market. It should be ubiquitous on Google approved Android devices - I'm sure a gift card with an Android on it and the Market (well, Play) logo should be fairly recognizable.
You're the ideal candidate for http://www.reddit.com/r/buildapc which will typically recommend something like this:

* Intel i5-2500k
* Crucial M4 SSD
etc

It is getting easier and easier to build a desktop. If you want to, it is certainly within reach.
The title of the article compares the current condition in China to the condition in the United States a century ago and provides some perspective on just how much stark poverty there still is in China.

Anybody who could reliably predict long-term economic trends could make huge piles of money as an investor. As the old saying goes, "The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent," which is why predicting those long-term trends is so difficult. A while ago, something reminded me about my life experience in the 1980s, when I was already an adult living in east Asia and a lot of Americans thought that Japan would soon have the world's dominant economy. Compared to many countries, Japan is very prosperous indeed today, but trends predicted for Japan in the late 1980s were not realized in the 1990s or the first decade of the twenty-first century. Maybe China will have a VERY long-term trend of steady economic growth, but to do so it will have to resolve political issues that are easier to resolve in a political system like that of Japan or that of the United States than a nonrepresentative system without an independent judiciary like that of China.

If we wanted to talk about REALLY long-term trends, we might consider the risk that China will return to its frequently encountered condition of being split into separate warring countries that don't enjoy the advantages of a common national economy. That was China's condition in the 1930s and 1940s, and it has often been China's condition in other eras. Conditions in Tibet and in Eastern Turkistan may matter as much for China's future as the import market in the European Union.
Could this be embedded inside NodeJS thus eliminating the need for a driver?
Thanks for the clarification. I guess I was a bit too negative in my first comment.

I'm all for composer if it's going to make library management easier at any level, either local or system-wide. Maybe if several well-known frameworks agree to standardize on composer as their plug-in manager of choice, you may even be able to obtain a de facto monopoly on PHP package management, and that'll be a good thing for all of us. (I'd love to see some sanity in WordPress plug-in management, too, but I guess that's a tall order.)

I just wanted to remind people that as long as you have to make concessions for the current state of shared hosting, you will hit limits at one point or another.
Not 0-day, but you might find it interesting:

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

DarkMarket was an English-speaking internet cybercrime forum created by Renukanth Subramaniam in London that was shut down in 2008 after FBI agent J. Keith Mularski infiltrated it using the alias Master Splyntr, leading to more than 60 arrests worldwide. Subramaniam, who used the alias JiLsi, admitted conspiracy to defraud and was sentenced to nearly five years in prison in February 2010.

The website allowed buyers and sellers of stolen identities and credit card data to meet and conduct criminal enterprise in an entrepreneurial, peer-reviewed environment. It had 2,500 users at its peak.
Google saves searches across devices with 'recent' icon
The entire article is about how Smalltalk syntax is different from C syntax, something that any reasonably competent programmer gets over very quickly. And he gets it wrong.

The article is a complete waste of time.
It does mention that the cost of acquiring the bitcoin.com domain cost them "about $1M in equity"...
Eventually, EVERY employer may ask this and then you simply won't have a choice

Two hours later, here is what I sincerely suggest you say:

The people I interact with have an expectation of privacy around the things
they share on FB with me, or even the fact that we know each other.

When I come to work here, you will have certain expectations about my discretion
and ability to respect the company’s need for privacy and my co-worker’s needs
for privacy by not sharing things I see, hear, or are privy to with a third party,
even—or especially—if I am offered a financial inducement such as an attractive
offer of employment with a company I respect.

I therefore ask you to recognize that I am giving my friends and family the exact
same expectation of privacy that you can reply on from me once I join your firm.

I don’t think that’s smarmy or righteous, it’s just good old-fashioned golden rule stuff, and you are demonstrating your integrity. There will be a certain number of companies who ask to shoulder-surf your facebook, and I will guess that some of them will back down if you say those words to them and mean it.

JM2C, of course, I am not qualified to give career advice.
They defaced a few websites and stole plaintext/unsalted databases, and Fox makes them sound like terrorists. How surprising.
It looks fine in my phone's browser.
Surely that's an opportunity for a new firm? The demand is obviously there (plenty of people don't see a lawyer for financial reasons), as is the supply (apparently).
QuantLib is a great open source finance library.

http://quantlib.org/index.shtml
Given that vein of thought you can't really trust any software
I’m very skeptical of that. The environment on those branded and customized Android phones is an extremely confusing one.
I have a Das keyboard (with Tux keycaps for the windows keys!) and you can pry it from my cold, dead hands.

Not cheap, but a seriously nice piece of kit.
There is a slight relevance of Bitcoin: Bitcoin transactions are irreversible. There is no real technical means to reverse a transaction; it is simply not possible. Even if there was a court order to reverse a transaction, unless the physical recipient could be identified, located, and arrested, the court order would be meaningless.

This is in contrast to almost any other exchange system (besides hard cash), which could, at least technically, force reversal of a transaction. See for example Paypal, Facebook credits, money in an MMORPG, shares of stock, and so forth.
This brings many of Google's stores under one brand, but the Chrome Web Store remains separate. (It has web apps, extensions, themes, etc.)
When you're unemployed all you have is time. I think he only had partial custody for his kids.

It lets you fit railing against governmental entities and directing 20-somethings--who also don't have full time jobs--seamlessly into your schedule, all with convenience from your government subsidized housing.
They would probably be prepared to learn it, if it paid. IANAL, but I'm guessing the main problem would be legal limitations.
What the hell is 'super lame' with gaming? Lots of people do it, why wouldn't they want to talk about it?

I also find it odd that you're complaining about lack of thoughtful content but are happy to use terms like 'super lame'. Would you use it in your preferred politics thread: 'Too many of Obama's policies are super lame'? Sounds exactly like what you're complaining about.
Spotify: 'We have to turn ourselves into the OS of music'
6 Ways to Get Your Kickstarter Funded 110%
Basic, useful tips on funding any kickstarter project.
This may not apply to the world of corporate lawyers the answer seems to be about, but at a smaller level, there are enormous switching costs involved in moving away from, and training a new lawyer.

And it's not a free market. In a free market, the consumer can walk away from a purchase. Most times individuals or small businesses need a lawyer, they are in no position from walking away. They need a lawyer. And they need to stop spending time searching, and get on with resolving.

So a lot of claims from lawyers that they operate in a free market are really not true. They mistake what are basically extortion/price gouging rates for free market pricing.

And the search is expensive too, with few (?) lawyers willing to offer 30 min to an hour of their time to discuss your needs for free. This is another factor in increasing switching costs for the consumers.

And of course, price is used as a signal for quality in a market in which quality is very hard to measure by most consumers. Sure I got a great deal on a lawyer, he only charges $150 per hour. Hmm, Your lawyer charges $400 per hour? Now, I'm not so confident.
On the flip side, they've only been able to get as far as they have on the strength of alliances that may not have flourished with such a clear line drawn.
Few of the popular ones, but there may be some misconception here. NoScript isn't meant to be blocking JavaScript for all sites. If you trust a site, which doesn't function without JavaScript, adding it to the whitelist is one click away. You get used to it quickly.

And, even in the mode where JavaScript is allowed by default on new sites, the other protections (Clickjacking, XSS, ABE, etc) still apply.
looks like a large chunk of the claim is wrapped up in the losses involved in the business closing down.
How a Gigantic, 5.3-Inch Smartphone Is Proving Critics Wrong
Dr. Sinofsky or: How I learned to stop worrying and love Windows 8
Stuxnet was cyberwarfare, not hacktivism. The point of Stuxnet was to disable infrastructure, whereas the point of much of what Anon does is to get attention. Now, granted, that doesn't require the ego-driven hacks and braggery that we've seen from them, it simply requires getting in, getting out, and posting the data anonymously then promoting and publicizing the data, not the hackers. I suspect you may start to see more of the hacker cells aligned with anonymous take this approach in the future to minimize the heat that they feel personally.
For one, CLR was designed from the start to support multiple languages, and Java didn't have any major language targeting the VM until like 2004-5.

I can't agree with this. Jython and Rhino started in 1997. JRuby started in 2001. Those are all ports of fairly major languages, and all saw significant use before 2004.
You do realise just how visceral the feelings are over "dirty foreigners taking our jobs"? This applies from very unskilled work right through high skilled engineers. Explaining to an unemployed American that it is okay to let another person into the country really isn't popular politically.

Going back decades, centuries or millennia, every American is an immigrant. It would just appear that it was good for you (in general), but not the newcomers.

Also not shown in the chart is just how second class green card holders are. You get a lot less due process for things. Also it expires after 10 years and you have to renew. Your renewal can be denied, they don't have to tell you why and you have no right of appeal.

Disclaimer: I am one of those dirty foreigners taking your jobs.
The statement (from 2008) has since been redacted by Adam.

'MythBusters' co-host backpedals on RFID kerfuffle: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-10031601-52.html
Hacker News, for one. Anyway, NoScript isn't an extension to disable javascript (there's already a checkbox for that), the point is to selectively enable it.