skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The encryption wouldn't really help, because the software manipulating with the wallet is on the server anyway.

The server software was used for automating bitcoin spending, too, so you couldn't just save public parts of the wallet on the server.

The only thing that could be done would be obfuscating the encryption key to the data very hard in the code, but that's hardly a security, just obscurity.
Yes. I share your concerns. This attitude that HTML and CSS and browser UI somehow need to be replaced by a custom layer of JavaScript ultimately is a slippery slope towards things like applets and swfs... towards a byte-code compiled web. See also: Native SDK.

We've got all these mechanisms built up to deal with web UI that is constructed with HTML and CSS in terms of accessibility, in terms of search indexing, in terms of browser plugins and extensions, in terms of web services and bookmarklets, in terms of UI debugging... Also, the web UI you get with HTML and CSS inherits a bunch of standard behaviors and defaults that make for more consistent experience from site to site. Consistency in UI mental models is a great thing.

I can't think of a single argument FOR this idea of rendering UI entirely in canvas that shouldn't instead be met with a response of "so lets make HTML and CSS better!" Instead of improving the open standards of HTML/CSS, people are pushing towards proprietary solutions.

Sometimes even the best intentions can go awry. I don't think this is malice so much as ignorance.
"No, that's just how math --you know, like relational algebra-- works."

What exactly are you suggesting? That the relational model is the optimal solution for all database needs?

"Plus, relational databases not being a "panacea" doesn't mean tried-and-failed solutions like hierarchical bds should can come back."

Tried and failed? What?

You do realise that every computer contains a hierarchical database in the form of a filesystem, right?

And you do understand that we're talking on a forum with hierarchical posts, something a hierarchical database would be ideally suited for?

And of course you're aware that in order to represent hierarchical data in relational databases, you need to inefficiently simulate a hierarchical database on top of a relational database?

And knowing all this, you still believe that hierarchical databases are a "tried-and-failed" solution?
I can see this being a great improvement in capacity, but wouldn't data from other 'vortices' leak data into the one you're listening to? Any integer multiple would add noise to every bit sent to station X, and lots and lots where isolated bits from other channels leak in (what would that be, divisible by the station's period?).
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I like the Lenovo ThinkPad X120E w/ an SSD. However, you could get a better lenovo with longer battery life for more than 500.
iPad 3s with iOS 6 in the wild
Hint: scripting.com has a better pagerank than PandoDaily.

He's the guy who practically invented blogging.
London, UK - Lead Mobile Dev (permanent)

State (http://state.it) is building a global opinion network - a massive-scale new social web startup. We've got a great team coming together in London, we didn't launch yet so you get to be in at the beginning, and we've got some fantastic technical challenges up ahead.

We're looking for a strong lead developer to build our mobile apps and eventually our mobile team - starting with iOS and moving onto Android as well. More info at http://jobs.state.it. Send us your published apps to demonstrate your experience.

Remote work not OK - we gain a lot from sitting together.
I think it's important to realize that we (the general public) are not the intended audience for statements like this. The RIAA/MPAA are lobbyist Organizations that are failing to pass legislature. They are legal teams that are losing steam in the court room. Their "customers"/investors are the various studios that have banded together to find means to sustain a dying business model.

Make no mistake, these are the death throes of the RIAA/MPAA

These statements lack the confidence of secure financial backing. These statements are basically saying, "We are doing what you asked of us, it's not our fault it isn't working", and the studios aren't amused.
Regarding the MySQL-related picture, "You are the MY in MySQL,"

> It is named after developer Michael Widenius' daughter, My.
-- Wikipedia

I hope she's flattered
> With the continuing campaigns for Internet-censoring litigation such as SOPA and PIPA,

I think you mean Internet-censoring legislation
Hm. Don't Retina iPhones actually report their resolution as the same as non-Retina ones? When you're designing web sites etc. you can use the exact same pixel values in CSS, and the iPhone does the rest.

Maybe Google Analytics handles this by multiplying screen dimensions by window.devicePixelRatio. Or maybe someone is playing with Ars.
DNS is a good upgrade from passing around text files, but it's not the only possible solution, or necessarily the best one. An "emergency" IP list doesn't scale, but it's much better than nothing if your DNS stops working.
The Onion has its own take on the difference between real war and video game war: an "ultra-realistic" war game featuring endless paperwork, awaiting orders, and repairing trucks: http://www.theonion.com/video/ultrarealistic-modern-warfare-... (I don't mean to trivialize war by this, and I should point out that The Onion is satirical.)
My reading was that the Linode with the hot wallet did not contain the software that operated on it. Perhaps it did, in which case you are right.
Does opting out of ads really work?
http://www.networkadvertising.org/index.asp

They say I can opt out of advertising. But what confuses me is that I need to enable cookies for this to work. Why would ", the NAI--a coalition of more than 80 leading online marketing companies"- want to make it difficult for them to spam me? They get their money from advertisers. No?
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Joel and Jeff setup SO because EE sucked so bad, from the beginning they've said 'we're not going to end up like the site with the hyphen'.

Jeff has already left the company. When Joel leaves who is going to be the antihyphen then? All it would take is a new board with some short term thinking(perhaps post IPO) to get them to hyphen land. As pointed out in the article EE started with high ideals too.

Their statement of CC licensing isn't clear. Do I license them my content CC or is it theirs and they license it back to me CC?

Google has already decided that anyone who tries to take the content and launch a SO a like is going to get penalized to death, so good luck on forking if they go evil.
> it is the spirit of taking risks

Erm... I don't think copying successful business is very risky. You can, of course, bork execution, but the key part - exploring the "needspace" and finding a viable business model - is already done. And even executing, when someone executed before, is rather easy.
Nothing personal, but I think it's naive to assume that.

I once did a deal with a software publisher that required me to turn over the source code.

One day I came into the office and found a disk clearly labeled as the source for my product, on the receptionists desk.

That was pretty close to public, and I remember that every time I let something sensitive out of my control.

Also every few months I have to change my credit card number because a charge appears that I didn't make. Luckily the credit card companies have developed good algorithms for detecting these. Now you might assume that every company that you give your CC to is being careful not to make it public, but if you believe that, you aren't reading the news.
I realized after I posted it that the "certain person" remark made it sound like I was accusing you. I wasn't, I literally meant a certain person, as in some random other user.

Either way it was a very nice gesture. Cheers.
Is this completely different than circular polarization?

It's been a long time since I've thought about this, but ISTR polarization errors gave only 10-20 dB attenuation/separation max.
I feel like using localStorage to cache stuff that could be handled by http caching is probably a mistake. I'm in the process of caching a bunch of our application in localStorage because a quirk in our client-side architecture means I need to know if something is cached before making an asynch request for content, (which you can't do with the standard http cache). That means I'm reinventing a cache invalidation scheme -- which we all know is hard, right? Plus the space allocated for localStorage is pretty small, so I have to have a way to prioritize the cache and bump out old stuff to make way for new. It's all rather convoluted.

IMHO, edge cases aside, most people shouldn't do this.
I would be interested to know if the author approves or disapproves of buying used CDs and DVDs

I remember some bloggers recommending it around the time the DMCA was introduced. (The idea being that MPAA/RIAA cannot make money from it but cannot ban it either.)
No, literally - the middle-eastern "kebab" is called cevapcici in Europe (at least in Ausria/Germany), it's a totally different dish from dönner kebab.
This isn't a summary, this is your own takeaway. I don't know what article you read, but the OS and site limitations were a passing mention in this one, and though they didn't like this, it didn't even end up in their own conclusion.
Could be a great prank, responding to the JS required to detect the resolution and sending a fake header are all easy enough, right? :D
The intention of the post was not to whine about the password complexity. Quite the opposite, I think Stack Overflow's strategy is a brilliant way to get you to login/register using Facebook.
That doesn't make any sense. Canvas is a standard maintained as part of HTML5 by the W3C. How are they "not really using HTML5"? Just because they don't have some tags? That makes no sense. The web is not HTML and CSS. People need to get over that.

As for semantics and stuff, this isn't designed for documents at all, which HTML is perfectly suited for. This is designed for native-style applications in the browser where semantics don't really mean anything anyway. And like I said in my article, accessibility is taken care of.
There's no value in SO's database of questions and answers, they might as well give it away under whatever liberal license they want.

The real business value of SO is the engaged ("community") web traffic it receives. ("Community" == "higher ad CPM" and "highly contextual advertising" in business terms.)
So by your definition the germans are solving a real problem then. The problem of localization. In other words, they are saving the world.

See the lines are rather blurry. Ultimately everything can be argued as solving a problem. But that is IMO a very unproductive way of looking at things.
Surround yourself with beautiful women; it's hard to get sad around beautiful women.

As a fellow straight male, I sort of agree and disagree with this. First, you make it sound awfully easy, when that's not necessarily the case. "Surround yourself with beautiful women" is not necessarily as easy as "Tune this JBossMQ messaging system to deliver 10000 messages / hour to the consumers." Plenty of hacker/geek types are a lot better at the latter than the former.

But maybe the bigger issue is that women (or men, to the women out there) can be the cause of as much sadness as happiness. Meeting someone, spending time with them, starting to develop an emotional connection with them, and then having the relationship blow up in your face, is extremely depressing. In my personal experience, some of the most depressed times in my life have involved women. Now sure, there's a mindset of "have plenty of women in your life, don't get emotionally attached to any one, be a player," etc. But even if you want that (and not everybody would), it's a big investment of time, energy, etc. to achieve that lifestyle. And that is, in turn, time taken away from your startup. Even more to the point, some people may feel the need to achieve startup success, before they feel like they can achieve "opposite sex" success. There's a lot of self-image stuff involved in our interactions with the opposite sex, ya know?

Anyway, if there's a point to all this rambling, it's to say "Sure, women are good, but happiness isn't as easy as an offhand comment to 'have more women in your life.'"
Pando Daily appears to be trying to recreate the TechCrunch of last year, rather than the TechCrunch of 3+ years ago. This is the same guy who wrote the mocking article on Ireland's startup scene. I guess he's filling the MG Siegler role.

You know what would be awesome? Some solid technology journalism. The last thing we need is another conflicted, industry mouthpiece. If this is the content they're pushing, I hope it fades into oblivion.
20k+ rep SO user here. Early on, reputation was an incentive to answer a lot of questions because with it came graduated permissions. At 20k, there is no further incentive besides vanity. So reputation isn't an incentive for me.

Has that stopped me from answering questions? Absolutely not. Joel is bang-on that my take away from SO is not reputation, it's knowledge. It seems like some people can't grasp that you learn just as much answering questions as you do asking them.

StackOverflow could shut me out tomorrow (I hope it doesn't!) and I wouldn't feel like I've wasted time on the site. I'd just find another site like it and start over.
And I'm sure his job duties never cause him stress and decrease his enjoyment of the skiing...
That community would become rather less engaged, and thus less valuable, if a paywall were implemented.
Sorry, but those things are totally different. Applets and flash are plugins - proprietary additions to browsers that live in a black box. Canvas is a standard, and is part of the browser itself. HTML and CSS don't need to be replaced for most things, but this is an interesting experiment to see whether for a certain class of applications, canvas can outperform the DOM and take care of some of the cross browser issues that CSS is plagued with. I don't get why people are so attached to HTML and CSS.
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+ battery 6000Mah (around 8h on Windows 7, I do not know for linux)
Interesting - that means if I manufacture & package my own pills, with my own logo, but print "contains Sildenafil" on the box when it doesn't, that does not qualify as counterfeiting?
The point's been made that artists make so little from downloads and streaming that it literally isn't worth it for you to purchase from iTunes or Amazon downloads compared to, say, buying one out of five albums on CD or vinyl. And maybe also purchasing merchandise directly from the artists website.
It is very easy, yes. As is faking the user agent.
Well, the credit card example you give is a good one- you can go through life without paying for anything by credit card, and your credit card will never be stolen. If you do pay for things by credit card, there is a chance that it will be stolen. If you post your credit card details publicly there is a 100% guarantee it will be stolen.

I think the same applies to apps. There is a sensible middle ground in there somewhere, and the new permission request alerts from Apple will go a long way to helping with that. But no, never any guarantees about anything.
Going back in time through technology
When I was younger I always thought I would have loved to go back in time... I particularly dreamt of going back to Ancient Rome, without specifically interacting with whomever I met. I just dreamt of seeing Rome and the people there.. In two thousand years, children who will have my same thought are going to go on the Internet and watch videos from our time. It is fascinating, powerful and frightning all at once what we are moving towards...
Strata 2012 highlights - Big Data is Bigger than Ever.
Ubuntu doesn't do Release Candidates anymore (at least for LTS releases...).

There is another Beta scheduled for March 29th, with a final release on April 26th.

In my opinion, if stability is really your top priority, wait until after the first point release (12.04.1) on July 19th. My 10.04 boxen will be staying at 10.04.4 until after 12.04.1 has been out for a little while.
Value types and parameterless constructors
I use the jailbreak only Groove Shark app plus the Pandora music app. Both have annual/monthly fee's attached which is fine because I am paying for the service they provide.
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The Web is HTML. HTTP is Hyper Text Transport Protocol. I think you're advocating for a JSTP that just cuts out HTML and CSS entirely. And at that point, why not just serve up compiled JS since it will be less bandwidth, right? Goodbye open web.
Both battery slice and 9 cell battery exceeds the desired weight.

With 6 cells you get somewhere around 7-8 hours if you are lucky. I know this laptop, but looking for better options.
I can't imagine how it is for a person like W to try and live a "normal life" after he leaves the war zone. And if he'd want to to begin with.
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As a former Marine infantryman, and a former Marine PR idiot, I think his numbers are off but a lot of the concepts are right, with a caveat. It's not sociopathy of the organic sort. It's the kind of detachment from prolonged exposure to extreme, unmitigated stress. So don't take this article as justification to feel like there's something mentally wrong with people who join a combat arms unit.
It's probably not a killer limitation to require a Mac for a revolutionary photography device.

The problem is that it's not wonderful enough to qualify as a thousand-dollar specialist camera, it's not cheap enough to be a nifty holiday gift ($50-150) and it isn't widely usable enough to be a killer point-n-shoot replacement.

The post-processing on Lytro's own system though... that makes it aggravating. I'll bet 50 cents that Marcus Ranum's nudes are verboten by their policy.

I look forward to the next generation of the technology, but I'm not convinced that Lytro is going to be around to produce it.
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How to write a crawler?
> orbital angular momentum

Under what circumstance can you change the OAM in order to exert a torque? (or maybe vice-versa: What is an example of torque exerting a change in OAM on the wave?)

TIA.
I'm attached to HTML and CSS because I remember UI programming before HTML and CSS. I'm attached to HTML and CSS because of the debugging tools for HTML and CSS UI. I'm attached to HTML and CSS because it allows for bookmarklets, and screenscraping, and browser plugins/extensions. I'm attached to HTML and CSS because it creates a beautiful separation between front end and back end code. I'm attached to HTML and CSS because UI designers can skin software built by JS programmers by tweaking a CSS file without having to know any JS. I'm attached to HTML and CSS because the web is HTML and CSS.
This is a great idea for a free web service.

Select/Insert user-agent and use cloud farms to hit a website randomly with it.
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I come across at least two people every week wanting to learn how to program, instead of giving them a 500-page C book I tell them to go to SO and try to help someone, research on google a random subject/question etc, then they start the reverse approach towards tools such as "I think I know how to do this, but how can I run python on my computer?" instead of installing 80GB of IDEs without knowing what they are for.

The results are amazing, they decide their favorite subjects without personal bias (a female friend got ultra hooked on SQL for example, even tho I hate it as a business language) and you just watch them fly.

I also make sure to point out that the reputation is not a certification of authority or correctness, as I see they are just experience points, just how much you learned while being nice enough to share that experience.

I am not a fan of the SE network splitting the subjects but understand why it exists right now, but I also think it is just an amazing problem to spend years on.
Is your smartphone your second brain?
Yep, it is advised to never trust client-side input for a reason.
Choice of clothing is always an expression of one's personality.
Well, the guy finally emailed me back with a bunch of stuff in Chinese...I think. I translated it, but it came out like some wonky English, anyway he took it down, so all is good.

Thanks
> People don't seem to care until someone writes a blog post that tells them they should care.

But that's the point, isn't it? They shouldn't have to care! People shouldn't have to be security experts to use a phone. The phone should protect them by default and make them have to jump through hoops to waive that protection, rather than the other way around.
Being ex-military and not a sociopath -- he lost me when he said that the "vast majority of us are straight up sociopaths"

We constantly made decisions that increased the risk to ourselves while trying to minimize the risk to civilians. That is not a mindset of a sociopath.
The iOS situation is certainly weird enough to make this seem plausible. 5.0.1 was hastily pushed out, but did not fix some folks' battery problems; then 5.1 was announced with Photo Stream deletions and an option to disable 3G on the iPhone 4S, yet nothing was released, not even the SDK has been updated lately. 5.0.1 is also by no means bug-free on my devices. What's going on there?

Doesn't this sound a bit like the situation just before Apple announced Mountain Lion out of nowhere?

But then, why would Apple let it leak via the user agent - because this is not considered big news? But why not merge it into the March 7th event?

I hope this is a hoax and we can all enjoy a super-mature iOS 5.1 next week.
They did say that the iOS 6 requests were coming from Apple-owned IP addresses.

The screen resolution was not tied to the IP addresses because it showed up in Google Analytics.
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Your comment is rude and trollish. GP made the reasonable point that trust in Joel may not be enough because VCs always apply pressure to monetize.

Agree or not (and I don't), it's not some beyond-the-pale view. Chill with the space aliens.