skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>>And, frankly, I have no idea how they hope to avoid a charge of horizontal collusion for that alone.

That is why Random House did not leap in with the other five of the Big Six. To avoid that appearance.

It's also the same trick Apple is using by making iBooks a download, not an app already pre-installed on every iDevice. They can claim their app has to be downloaded just like their competitor's app. But that does not obscure the fact people can order eBooks only with iBooks, not their competitor's apps. Apple is still guilty of Restraint of Trade in eBooks and that should be the next examination by the DoJ.
Don't forget to close the circle - make sure the (local) fans know what's on at the venues, even if it's unfamiliar to them. Remember being young and single, and going out for the sake of going out. The exploratory and habitual aspects of cultural behavior are at least as important as the directed ones - but I'll stop here lest I start to sound like a marketing course :-)

Lots of luck, and congratulations on the baby!
I think the specification is written in a way to not differentiate between SSL or non SSL use.
One of the smartest people I've encountered, even if it is only on Quora. Great sense of humor, doesn't pretend to have answers on things he doesn't know about. Probably a great guy to work with and for. Congrats, Yishan.
A cheeseburger isn't really intrinsically unhealthy. It seems pretty complete, actually (excepting the white bread).

Now the fries and Coke aren't doing much for you.
I'm not sure where I read the specs yesterday - the ipad isn't of a lot of interest to me, so I wasn't doing something like following a live blog as suggested elsewhere.

As I was just browsing the print WSJ a bit ago I did find an excellent example of why people like me might be confused. Note in the picture the chart the WSJ published of the specs shows: Processor - Quad Core (new ipad) - Dual Core (ipad 2)

pic: http://desmond.imageshack.us/Himg69/scaled.php?server=69&...
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Fuck the Android Build Process
Programs as fast as the speed of light!
Just because someone is doing something, it doesn't mean that is what they are best at. Maybe this particular baseball player would be much better at being a lawyer. But he wants to play baseball--so there he is, struggling in Florida.

How does one know what they are best at, anyway? I try to be reflective, and I ask people whom I trust what they think. Often the answers don't agree, or they reflect the subjectivity of each relationship (e.g. my lawyer telling me I'd be a good lawyer--but how would he know if I'd be a better cook?). Sometimes they are things that I actually don't like doing. So where does that leave me?
Wow, really cool. My apartment overlooks Vancouver harbour and I can see every ship thats on the map.
This person's quote from the comments about sums it up.

"This was such a carefully worded blog post that one can safely conclude that the vulnerability described in the video is true.

I especially like your use of phrases like "some guy" and "crude attempt" in an attempt to discredit the allegations without actually addressing the allegations themselves."
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I will say this: What doesn't kill you makes you stronger.

This saying has always bothered me, Nietzsche or not.

What doesn't kill you, in the literal sense, can often cripple, maim, or psychologically impair you. It could make you hesitant, lose confidence, or refuse to try again.

Whether it's your life, or your professional career, the "failure or luck against adversity makes you stronger" bit seldom matches reality.

Sorry to take that sidetrack, but it happens to be a saying that I wish would disappear.
Here you go: http://blog.identified.com/2012/01/new-identified-research-r...
created_at, hashtags, user_mentions, favorited, geo, id, retweet_count, retweeted, source, text, truncated.

That's just a small selection of the important elements delivered in the single tweet JSON packet. I didn't even get into the 'user' stuff, which is included so that all of the other fun things about the user can be displayed.

(Note: this is using the web interface to Twitter, which is what I'm assuming the OP was implying)
Is there any way it can be converted to a 'valid-according-to-windows' TTF file? I'd love to embed this in an app. If the process is a bit involved I'd be happy to give it a try if you give me a few pointers.
It's awesome that you want to contribute to the community in this way but I'd say these kinds of tutorials are very well covered already.

As a developer I've found there's a gap in more specific IDE & framework tutorials. Perhaps focus your efforts there?
What words get you censored in China?
and from the comments on that blog:

> The code your referring to .. the unknown c++ looks like the older IBM compilers found in OS400 SYS38 and the oldest sys36.

> The C++ code was used to write the tcp/ip stack for the operating system and all of the communications. The protocols used were the following x.21(async) all modes, Sync SDLC, x.25 Vbiss5 10 15 and 25. CICS. RSR232. This was a very small and powerful communications framework. The IBM system 36 had only 300MB hard drive and one megabyte of memory,the operating system came on diskettes.

> This would be very useful in this virus. It can track and monitor all types of communications. It can connect to everything and anything.
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I have some friends who do this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTE9Gr0ZmOc

I bet they would love this app.
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I am about halfway done with it at the moment, and it's such an awesome book so far. I highly recommend it.
I used to be semi-addicted to TF2, until it became free to play.

The massive increase in poorly balanced weapons and items and the flood of newbie players who were not that interested in the 'team' aspect of 'team fortress' really killed the fun for me.

There was a similar effect with major releases before it became free to play. I particularly remember the engineer update - for about a week that's the only class 1/2 the team would want to play, so good luck being Blue (attacking) on a pipeline map (for example).

I'll try it again one day soon so see if things have settled down, but I think that the commercial success came at the cost of game quality.
> You're saying that there's a way that women are and a way that men are that isn't dictated by society

Yes. Just like every other sexual species on this planet has a male and female nature that dictates varied behavior, so do we.

Give me an example of a species where that isn't the case?

> and any deviation is unnatural.

Any deviation is impossible. It's hard-coded. Yes, there might be a 0.1% of the population that doesn't comply, but those are mutations.

I strongly believe that even if 1% of the population is exhibiting a behavior, it is not a deviation. It is normal. At least, normal for that 1% group.

> Your argument can be used to justify any form of prejudice that has ever existed

No. See the above. Again, if it's defined by nature, then no deviation is possible. In other words, what you're witnessing is not deviation. It is nature. On the contrary, that specific idea can be used to stop repression.

> doesn't rest on any evidence other than your own stereotypes

It's an idea derived from simple logic. Not data or stereotypes. If you're seeing a large group of people exhibiting behavior, it is natural for them. Regardless of how wrong you may think their behavior is, there is nothing wrong with it. Trying to force them to behave a certain way is wrong.

> You actually think that sick men deserve contempt.

No. However, a sickly man will be perceived as weak by other men and that will elicit contempt. Which explains why FDR desperately tried to hide the fact that he had polio and was confined to a wheel chair ... there are many many other examples of this behavior.

> And that men and women who behave identically should inspire disgust.

Men and women don't behave identically. When they do, they are forced to either by social norms or through actual threat of force. And that's sick.

Again, please provide an example of a species where the male and female behave identically?

> And you insist that other people are the ones who are trying to force people into norms.

Every day. It happens around you constantly.
Why would I give my email address to someone in exchange for something I know nothing about, and cannot find any info about?
Haskell or Lisp, perhaps?
> This would be very useful in this virus. It can track and monitor all types of communications. It can connect to everything and anything.

When I read these kind of sentences I always think of Plan9 first
> That means that due to XP's lack of support of SNI, it's still not possible to do name-based virtual hosting.

I thought Chrome supported SNI on XP, so since it is the only browser with SPDY, there are no problems.
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This makes me want to buy a bunch of AIS receivers and take a week or two off to travel to far flung locations to setup remote receiving locations.

We've been putting them at our HF radar sites to log ship data, so that we can use the ship data in a hack to get the radars to self calibrate. The radars measure ocean currents and are in some pretty 'far flung locations'. Yes it's fun!
As long as they don't become more like conventional CEO's and forget they were once writing code having lot of fun building applications and solving issues on day to day basis. Now that they are CEO's asking questions which makes you think..were they engineers before? I hope he doesn't turn to conventional.
Often tankers sit out and wait for the oil price to change marginally (yes, really - its that silly). Other than that, could be many reasons including bunkering (via smaller ships), full port, repairs/servicing, etc.
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I bought a Logic-8 from them a while back - definitely worth the money. And they seem like an awesome company too. I inquired as to whether they were going add a particular feature to the Logic-16, and while the answer was essentially 'not any time soon', the founder who replied was kind enough to add "Let me know what sort of application you have in mind -- maybe I can point you to some other solutions out there that might work, and maybe even be cheaper."
The payload could have been modified (to obfuscate its origin / source language) using a product named codesurfer/x86.

http://www.grammatech.com/research/products/CodeSurferx86.ht...

If it has access to source code, it can instrument the build process, and obtain disassembly that is high quality enough to support rewriting. Using it's scheme API you can modify the CFG of each procedure directly, serialize the rewritten parts out as nasm, and even relink with the object files you don't have source for.

It works with any build system, and supports gcc / as / ld and cl / link.

So it may not have actually been written using a custom pl.
> (...) lord knows if someone like samsung pulled a trick like this the condemnation from the true believers would be severe.

Interesting, it seems to me that Apple gets far more scrutiny than any other company in tech.
I guess I should also note that this is the dealbreaker for me. I've been building using the Twilio API for a while now and this would've been a bit of a timesaver for a new app, however I can't get past having to refer someone to a page that bears no importance to my end-users other than them being able to flag me for spam (which if they subscribed to me, is unlikely). Good work on this though!
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Blur.js: Produce psuedo-transparent blurred elements over other elements.
Agreed. I'm intrigued but there's absolutely nothing aside from the little visual about how Bloc works.
I love the passion here, and I love Optimizely (we just recently signed up with them). Keep running you're bound to end up somewhere awesome. There are a few key points here that make this latest test you're running flawed though (and I know from running my own 120 multi-variate test).

Running all of those tests in a single run will help you find a test that improves over the original almost definitely. What that large test doesn't tell you definitively is how those variations perform against one another nor does it tell you the likely increase of your measured metric.

Furthermore, running tests without adherence to a rigorous thought process (where each variation essentially is a separate hypothesis, with possibly unique covariates, and different reasons why your test might be flawed.

Your own intuition and gut need to play a part in the tests so that you can understand the results and so that they don't cause more confusion.

In the end, you will end up with results that you could've gotten to 50x faster by just testing the variations you believed had a reasonable cause to do better (just a couple rather than 1000). This is again due to the fact that Optimizely is only telling you that it's likely the winning variation would do better and the fact that the individual results don't compare to anything aside from the original page.

I'd love to chat more and share my love for data and the knowledge I've gained as I've traveled this exact path with you. Reply if you wanna email/skype about this a bit.
are properly written code obfuscators able to throw off detection of their originating language?
Lack of data, due to lack of AIS receivers, not lack of shipping activity.
I'm genuinely curious as to why you thought D was a bad attempt? The GC? [not trolling]
One (hopefully) final question I would like to ask: what happens if my message body is say, 155 characters long? Will the rate link be appended to the end and another message be sent with it? Just seems a little roundabout
I didn't disagree with the, "they never show that the text was copyrighted." But I did think it reasonable to point out that there is--in fact--a place to register your works for a registered copyright. You don't have to, but it does give you nice benefits.
Yes the second article is about the appeal. UCal did not wish to be kicked out of Sequoia funds so they played up the internet bubble funds to present to the judge.

It was the disclosure on negative IRRs that led to the first article that got them disinvited from Sequoia iirc. UC was just obeying disclosure laws. Do you remember differently?

Of course, VCs could just release their performance history numbers so that investors and prospective entrepreneurs know what the percentages are. Who does it serve that they don't release these numbers?
Sometimes it depends on the servers. I'm pretty good at FPS's and found that weapons aren't really unbalanced and using the default weapon set you can do pretty well (I've mainly played only soldier). A recommended look at servers would be the reddit ones

Personally I liked TF2 when it first came out (before achievement based upgrades came out) and felt that the updates and new weapons and especially after hats and such came out were all too much. My problem is probably that I was a hardcore counter-strike player and TF2 really turned into a pub oriented game.

It is still fun to play a week every few months if you can find a decent server to play in.
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Very cool. For those of us who already know how to code, I think this would be fantastic way to learn new languages and platforms. I hope more of the advanced courses are on the horizon.
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This is one of the most interesting netsec (if not THE most) questions of our time.

We have what is effectively an alien virus, given how advanced it was, its construction and spawing of duqu and being written in an unknown language.

This is serious awesome cyberpunk stuff - but scary as hell at the same time.

With the revelation of Stuxnet and Duqu, NOBODY should think anything they do/say online is safe.
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This creates an amazing effect that looks very similar to the Windows Aero look. Talk about sprucing up a boring modal dialog. I noticed there's a slight "flash of unstyled content." It's probably the only thing that will hold people back from using it on any elements that are visible on page load. I'm disappointed to see that even aided by JavaScript there is no support for IE8. Oh well, can't really blame that on the developer. I highly doubt IE8 would have been able to render it anyway.

Superb!
I think this is a great product. Just out of curiosity and if the co-founders see this comment, how often do you think you'll be releasing new courses to learn? Great job otherwise!
I agree. Would defiantly benefit from some kinda about/info page.

But at least it doesn't only have a facebook/twitter login
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The company has named it the Duqu Framework

I am confident that within a week there will be 3 front page posts on HN along the lines of 'Why I use Duqu and you should too'.
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I think the ambiguity was on purpose to attract clicks. It got me as well.
Let's suppose the story was bogus and the reporters would look stupid (neither is true). The TSA might still not want the story to be spread widely, because people will remember the original story, but not the corrections hidden in small print.
So facebook is going to use gazehawk to (potentially unwittingly, given their privacy track record) track the eye movements of its users to see where they look most of the time.
I would disagree that programming is the only interactive art form. Drawing and painting are quite interactive when you take into consideration the interpretation that the audience must perform, and, more importantly, the back and forth of artists as they see and react to each other's work with their own work.

In that sense programming is very much like the visual arts.

For what it's worth, I've been visual artist for around 40 years and a programmer for around 35.
HIVE -> Pig -> Cascading -> Pangool -> MapReduce ?
Yeah after reading the FAQ I came to the same conclusion. But also realized that pirates wouldn't actually need this site and could just get their own AIS receiver's
Sorry, reading and comprehension never was my strong suit. I just can't help but feel that by 'explaining' this behavior it is in some way condoning it. I see now that was not your intent.
Unless I'm mistaken it looks like a very dynamic language. The screenshot they're showing seems to point at initialisation of a new object, which actually copies function pointers for each of its methods. That's not needed for static languages which would just point to vtables. It looks like it doesn't use real GC though - object's destructor is called right away on a failed allocation. And the destructor is possible to change too...

So something like compiled javascript sans GC really. Or maybe like precompiled python.

Doesn't seem very obfuscated either imho - there's a bunch of static data copied in a series of moves. If someone really wanted to obfuscate those, this looks like a fairly low hanging fruit: grab a list of 5+ mov-s of constants and change them into xor+copy of a memory range to confuse pointer detection.

Can you see any more characteristics in that fragment?
Undoubtedly Apple has many employees in its legal department who would have demanded that the attribution be added if they knew the full story.

But it is easy to imagine that no one in the team of people who carried out the technical work to get OSM data into the product told the legal department where they were getting it from, or took responsibility for making sure it got put in.

The overall result is indefensible, and Apple's senior management should have had processes in place to audit their products to make sure they comply with the legal requirements for all third-party code and data they use. However, not doing it is easily attributed to incompetence and not malice.
Y'know, I really don't need to text while driving that badly.
Awesome, awesome, awesome. I've always wanted this but I've never taken the time to learn enough about graphics processing to even know where to begin. Thanks for sharing!

For those who hate on compiz, etc, for transparent windows and readability, blur is the solution. As I can see from the demos, it clearly is true in the browser as well (well, why wouldn't it be).
reddit has always been an unconventional company, we're betting an engineer (with strong understanding of community) will do just fine.
No web services can record a users webcam "unwittingly".
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It used to be possible to import from last.fm (and pandora) but, true, cannot find it anymore.
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A work in progress, but working none-the-less. IAM is so useful for rolling credentials!
This community is inherently paranoid, if the site's intentions are as they portray then I'm sure an about/info page is in progress. Now, after saying that I'm curious about when this site came up, I shall research.
Lasik's not all sunshine. I for example suffer from a fairly common and known complication, which is loss of contrast. That means that apart from being severely night-blind my vision becomes unpredictably blurry whenever lightning conditions change.
I'm still counted as a success story but in retrospect I would trade my old impaired but stable vision for my improved but unstable vision.
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I had to ... as patiently as I possibly could ... explain to a woman yesterday that her iPhone 4 was not 4G (LTE). I think people like her are who Apple target with this sort of marketing. Don't misunderstand, I don't believe Apple made users believe they were getting a 4G phone with the iPhone. I just think companies like AT&T, Verizon, Samsung and Apple word things in a manner intended to put their customers in a certain frame of mind.
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Men and women often behave identically, just as men and other men often behave identically. I'm a man and I don't feel contempt for sick men. I'm sorry, I don't mean to be having this conversation, I just misinterpreted your first comment. Go on defending the completely unthreatened by force right of women to watch The Bachelor.
The original Star Wars was a mish-mash of everything George Lucas liked when he was a kid, and some of his later adult obsessions. Old movie serials, children's stories, space opera science fiction are in there as well as a ton of references to Japanese cinema in general and Kurosawa in particular.

He was later to generalize this into a more general set of archetypes, but it seems to me that the first movie was very naive, in the literary sense, and very much a reflection of his love of the fantasy narratives of his youth.
I tried using this a couple weeks ago. One problem I encountered was that the images have to be on the same domain for it to work its canvas magic.
Use a throwaway. It is worth checking out.