skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'd imagine a totally black screen would do the trick in keeping the app hidden, or at least less obvious.
There was 1 what and 5 whys. They last why being unanswered is the whole point of the post.
Rich, I sent you an email.
Thanks for mentioning that only after I registered....
The browser choice thing is not available in US?
I know my TRS-80 ran OS-9.
Sure, but then your app needs to communicate across the Internet if you share data across regions. This can be expensive and/or slow and/or unreliable. http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/faqs/#how_will_I_be_charged_for_da...
"What prevents the same enumerating attack against the sign up form. Are you going to give them a generic message that the username is invalid when it in fact has been taken?"

This is a good point, but I suppose that, all other things being equal, it's better to put the key under the mat than it is to put it on top it. IOW, the more sophistication your attacker needs, the better.
Any limits on the number of metrics or metrics/s?
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If urgency is one of the qualities of a leadership then yes Microsoft seems keen to create new products rather than just sit on the sidelines until somebody creates a market. Microsoft has been burnt badly by following that approach. iPod, iPhone, iPad are all examples of that and that is why others are eating Microsoft's lunch.
No, it should be part of the judicial process like all other evidence gathering law. Judges and lawyers and juries policing police.
Even in jurisdictions where police make recordings, they use the recording to prepare their notes and then dispose of the recording.

This is an excellent video to watch in its entirety, but at 45:30 you can see a police officer proudly explain that he destroys recordings after he gets what he wants from them:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6wXkI4t7nuc

This might help explain the reason to have your own recording.
In MA we recently had a suit (Click v Cunniffe) over whether it's legal to record police. We're a two party consent state, but the judge ruled:

Simply put, a straightforward reading of
the statute and case law cannot support
the suggestion that a recording made with
a device known to record audio and held in
plain view is "secret."

http://www.citmedialaw.org/sites/citmedialaw.org/files/10-17...

(not a lawyer)
All court cases are held in public, so if you are interested in the full evidence, etc, you can attend the hearing in person. Moreover, all cases are recorded, so you can request a transcript of the whole process. Most judicial decisions however begin by a summary of the facts and the laws that were in question.

Once you get a decision, you can fix it. You appeal it. If the court was wrong, then the higher court is likely to overturn it.

The point about being able to read the judicial decision is that if the judge applied the law incorrectly, whether because he was corrupted, because he did not like the defendant or anything, if you are a trained lawyer, you can see that the law was applied incorrectly, so you appeal it. If that appeal is successful, the judge below would loose a huge amount of reputation, especially if it was blatantly obvious that he applied the law incorrectly. So no judge would do it. They are paid very handsomely. They probably practised as lawyers before becoming a judge so made quite a bit and therefore they have nothing to gain and everything to loose if they accept being corrupted.
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>>Because the common characteristics of such people is to heavily depend on intellisense and auto complete to do almost any task. Tool generated code is so common in those communities most code is generally taken care by the IDE. Import statements, exception handling, try/catch blocks, loop generation in context of previous statements. The list endless...

Because that code can be easily automated... choosing not to is just wasting your time.

>>When you are tuned to thinking this way you basically lose any touch on proactive coding. You stop thinking, the IDE starts thinking for you. You stop reading API because you know everything is about to be auto completed, anyway. Now the issue is you are offloading the job of thinking to the IDE. This is dangerous.

False. You stop thinking about boilerplate code and API details and free yourself to focus on the actual problem at hand.

>>If a rookie can do what an expert can, just by using an IDE. I guess its time for the expert to fear for his job.

Do you consider writing good code an issue of speed typing? I have no idea why you believe an IDE would be able to make a beginner into an expert.

>>Lack of knowledge of command line utils is just one such case. You can either learn how to use awk/sed/Perl + Text processing utils. Or you can open up eclipse and endlessly re implement what the command line has to already offer.

Or you could use your IDE to write something that the command line doesn't do. Nice strawman.

I can never understand why people who are in the business of automating tasks (programmers) hate tools that automate tasks (IDE's), of all things.
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It's a good thing Facebook overwrote my entire contacts list with useless data, so apps like this can't affect me anymore.
One complexity is that it has been ruled that your cell phone is not a container that protects its contents, so police are allowed to search it without a warrant. This is not true, however, if it is in a physical locked container such as your glove compartment (where it is much less likely to be able to hear anything).
> Every time a user creates an account or changes their password, the password should be hashed using a new random salt. Never reuse a salt.

Why not? The salt is still unique to that user. What's the benefit to changing it?
Movies recreated in Code. Can you guess what movies these are?
Pretty fun for the nerd in all of us.
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Yes! And write it using the stupid, stupid "corporate standard" tools (Serena Dimensions, I'm looking at you) that their employer mandates for whatever political reasons.
I've read over 150 books on my Kindle.

Before that, I've tried a lot of other devices - CRTs, LCD, LED screens, Android and Symbian cell phones, I even read quite a few books on a secondhand Palm III.

The Kindle is light-years better. I used to get my eyes tired from reading on CRTs and LCDs, I did manage to read a lot of books on them but that's because I was too poor to afford them (shipping to Uruguay is incredibly expensive).

As other posters said, e-ink is truly better for reading, and the almost eternal battery and form factor and light weight do make for a much better reading experience.

While the iPad is very nice, and has a lot of advantages, I think that if you're a book lover, you'd get a lot of mileage out of a Kindle or equivalent e-ink reader. (especially if you've read 80 books on your iPad already!)
My wife tells me that all the time.
Arg, I just read the 1992 era patent and I am not sure what exactly the novel part of it is. Possibly it claims to patent a specific implementation of model-view-controller. This stuff is written so obtusely it's hard to imagine what specific claims of the things it describes is it really patenting. Disturbing is the large number of other patents that reference it. No doubt anything we do in the course of developing software violates some claim made in some patent somewhere that few have even heard of.
I think the GP is talking about something like C, which has a static type system at compile time. But at runtime, it's all ones and zeroes. In Clojure a symbol is a symbol and the (strong) types of the objects they point to are resolved at runtime. So Clojure's type system is, in a precise sense, the opposite of what the GP was talking about!
Not an argument against your primary point, really just semanitcs, but: "everybody's definition of marriage", is very different than what you may suggest is more in line with "the general/average definition of marriage" If you accept "everybody's definition of marriage" You need to accept what everybody things marriage is, which does include people that think it can be homosexual in nature. While it also includes people that think it cannot be, it stands to reason that accepting most forms of marriage would be less harmful, since that government recognition of marriage doesn't mean that I, or my religion has to recognize the marriage. I will not however comment on the validity of "accepting everybody's definition of marriage" only trying to bring coherency to the discussion so that we aren't just arguing semantics.
The ability to use Windows in principle was likened to being able to also use a raw Turing machine; i.e. that it could have worked but would have been completely inappropriate.

I think that Unix-alikes are going to dominate any sort of high-performance computing; and I think it's more than just the network effects of the current user base. The scriptability and composability that permeates Unix-alikes is essential for automating tasks across thousands of nodes. That's not to say that it's impossible in Windows, but it's not as much in Windows' culture. Being able to ssh to any node, occasionally draw graphics remotely, all these things are hugely important. The main advantage of Windows, point-and-click administration and lots of existing software, are not advantages when you can't point-and-click thousands of machines and you have to write all your software anyway.
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I think we should take a step back and also find a moment for another unsung hero, water.

Water also played a bigger role in the discovery of Higgs boson than Linux. Without water the researchers would surely have died of thirst weeks or days after starting work at CERN.

In "water" we trust.

On that note - what about paper and pens. Would the discovery have been possible without paper and pens? We'll never know for sure.
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Oh, I hope they win, but as Hamlet said, "for tis the sport to have the enginer, hoist with his own petar". No, the spelling is not wrong :-)
also, on the support page, I'd make it a regular clickable email address rather than "support at hostedgraphite.com". You want to make it easy for your customers to reach you. At this point you shouldn't be too worried about spam. We've had our email address on our site for about 6 months now, and have received a total of 3 spam messages that weren't caught by google's filters. Not sure how good huggl.es is wrt spam filtering, but, you won't get much spam until you're popular enough to be crawled by spammers, and once you're popular enough, you'll be able to afford spam filtering software.
BSD kernels generally do not have such good support for hard real time applications. It's been done though, so I don't know if it would have a real impact.
November 9 does in fact appear to be the expiration date, that is, 20 years after the first filing date [1, 2].

The patent owner can still sue for damages for pre-expiration infringement, going back six years (which is the statute of limitations). But damages for infringement won't continue to accrue after expiration.

In addition, any injunction against infringement would expire automatically with the patent.

[1] http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect2=PTO1&Sec...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Term_of_patent_in_the_United_St...
The metric limit isn't on the front page yet, but you can see it per-plan on the plan choosing page: http://www.hostedgraphite.com/pick_plan/

There is a limit on metrics/sec, currently 50/sec, but we're trying to keep that limit high enough that people don't need to worry about it. We expect that most people won't hit the API directly and will use statsd instead.
I haven't seen a Nexus 7 personally, but from my experience with the Kindle, it looks like it will be a better and more flexible device (I appreciate the Play store and other benefits of stock Android).

Not that the Kindle Fire would be a bad choice, but I'd personally choose a Nexus 7.
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Could you not do your normal practice, and then have someone else run the automated scanners as a sort of double-check just to make sure you didn't miss anything obvious? Sure, it would likely never find anything, as it's your job to not miss anything obvious, but if they're basically automated and free, seems odd to dismiss them outright.

EDIT: Furthermore, how embarrassing would it be if someone hired you and then ran one of these scanners themselves and did find something you missed? Given the magnitude of the potential downside, and the marginal cost of using them as described, it'd almost be more of a business insurance tactic than anything else.
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It is wonderful to read this. Self-improvement is the sort-of-hidden thing that all Stack Exchange sites are about. The best way to improve, in my opinion, is to teach your peers while learning from your peers.
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I have an extremely hard time taking seriously the use of "architect" to describe anything other than someone with an M.Arch or B.Arch who is employed designing buildings.

I would say that it's pointless ego stroking, but I know a lot of actual architects, and they'll be the first to tell you that it isn't exactly a high-prestige title.
Having worked with remote teammates, I'm open to anything that makes people feel more like they're part of a common workplace.
This is a good list for getting a job in information security. Becoming an expert? Not so much.
I am no Russian or friend with their current government , but this perpetual flow of dubious information on ft, ftd or bbc is remarkable; I would really like to profile, such dubious information based on author etc.. but have no time..
That is pretty interesting that the Secret Service deals with more than protecting VIPs. I googled a bit, a turns out they were originally created by Lincoln as a division of the Treasury to combat counterfeiting.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Secret_Service#Hi...
A workable program for teaching technical people how to effectively manage others in specific technical contexts is probably one of the most potent things a company could have.

So much of the quality and productivity of a programming group depends on how well the group is managed. Despite this, the production of effective managers is often shockingly haphazard.

They are not going to do something for you just because of your title. You really have to make your case...

"One of the practicalities of a less hierarchical company is that you aren't necessarily going to have the position power to decree something or dictate something..."

This is actually the case at most BigCo. If you think otherwise, then you've bought into the window dressing.
That was my bad - It's something of an experiment to try and get people to read all of the options instead of gravitating directly to 'cheap'.
> Does the community really have an interest in equalizing homosexual and heterosexual couples, when homosexual marriage cannot produce any children in the first place by its very nature, and when any adopted children are automatically disadvantaged without even the prospect of opposite-sex parental role models (a "mommy" and a "daddy")?

Doesn't it stand to reason, that if the goal of the government recognition on marriage is to provide incentive opposite-sex parental roles, that perhaps marriage is the wrong way to be doing that? We recognize plenty of marriages that will remain childless due to no-desire, or inability to have/raise children, yet they continue to reap the benefits of marriage.
Of course not! You've got to call the Police police -- everyone knows Police police police Police.
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How do you respond to incentive to not buy a new smart phone, because it will probably be cheaper a year from now?
You're spot on. It all comes down to a reasonable expectation of privacy. If you're in public, interacting with other people in the public, you waive your right to not have pictures taken of you. I don't know a place in the US that this doesn't hold.
Even with long, unique salts?
Looks a bit like Ribbon.

Personally I like any menu system that has search in it. So that first 2-5 times I use search, then I learn the location and can click the right thing directly.
You're definitely right on that. However, if your manager isn't willing or able to effectively argue for your team members, it doesn't matter what the review system is: you'll still get screwed.
Does a Gorilla by any other name still smell?
Nice, was just looking for something like this. Thanks!
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OP was talking about user experience, not user interface. I don't know anyone who admires the UX of Windows, but lots that enjoy the UI. Examples of the differences: Windows will still show you focus-stealing dialogs that may result in a total shutdown of the OS if you're busy typing. Windows will still by default reboot if you walk away for 15 minutes and it decides to update. Application installation and uninstallation is still a pain for most users. Multiple monitors are not supported well. There are no virtual desktops.

The user experience on Windows is distinctly subpar to every other operating system I've ever used. I know this is my opinion and I know that there are probably millions who disagree with me. But as I've said, I've not met any yet.
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I felt nervous using an installer on my Mac, but when I go to my PC later today I'll try that version. Sounds like a cool concept.
This guy is a moron! He thinks long life should be an advantage by default. (He says something would have to go wrong or we would live longer.)

In fact, rapid generations are optimal for evolution and slowing down generations must be justified. Old people have to pull their weight or evolution will get rid of them!
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There is this[0] that gets Clojure[Script] to C via Gambit Scheme, still doesn't seem like something to build an OS on top of.

[0] https://github.com/takeoutweight/clojure-scheme
Thanks for your inputs! We fixed the bug and so you should see the LearningJar panel on the side.
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> I think that over the next 50 years, various Chinese phrases, language quirks and usage will start bleeding into English

Right on. That was one of my favorite elements of the Firefly TV series.
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In some sense, all athletes use prosthetics. Humans aren't born with spikes, and definitely not with asymmetrical ones optimized for making left turns (especially important in the 200m, where one accelerates throughout the curve of the track)

Amputees can take this to a new level. They can optimize the length of their legs on the distance to run and their fitness. For now, we see that as something that enables people, but I think this guy would not have been allowed to take part in a 'regular' event if he had a real chance to win (the wheelchair marathon is a separate event from the regular marathon for the same reason)
It's indeed possible to add type-checking to Clojure by writing macros for type declarations and checking. But Clojure was designed primarily as a dynamic language, and if one wants type checking maybe Haskell fits the bill better, since it has a powerful type system and a syntax that was designed with such a type system in mind from the get-go. I'd suspect that a heavyweight type system would just look and feel cumbersome in Clojure, but maybe I'm wrong.
Peer-to-peer message-passing to deal with overloaded cell phone networks?
Maybe do small, medium, large, developer. That way it's: $$, $$$, $$$$, $
Yeah, since iOS4, any app can run in the background for 10 minutes. Certain apps may be approved to run in the background longer. It's covered in the iOS App Programming Guide.

Here's a link to the pdf (you might need a developer account to access): http://developer.apple.com/library/ios/documentation/iphone/...

If you can't or don't want to access the pdf, here's a link to a SO answer I gave on the subject:
http://stackoverflow.com/a/9738707/239074
I don't know if this is on purpose, but the "Cmd+Shift+K" binding is not activated by "Ctrl+Shift+K" or "Alt+Shift+K" on non-Macs. Seems to work great otherwise, though.
Thanks for your clarification. Phrased this way I tend to agree with you.
Is it true that they're getting better? As I understood it, the major outage last year was a cascading EBS failure caused by one AZ, which this was too. I personally do not have the feeling that EBS behavior is completely understood in different failure scenarios.
There's zero cost to changing it, and makes any previous work on computing hashes for that user useless.
It's not the pictures part that's tricky. When you include audio, a whole other set of laws comes into play.
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Good point! That has been fixed. :)
Looks like the community decided to re-open it. I agree it's on-topic, actually, since it is about algorithms and got good answers.
I agree with both daeken and yan. Moving off that, I think a key to "thinking security" is understanding the threat model of a given thing. I believe this is partially what yan was alluding to as well.

Understanding the function, and boundaries, and interactions of a system, application, protocol, device et al and being able to identify who are threat actors, what the assets to protect are, and what the real threats against the entity are will point you at the more valuable things to start. Far, far too many people gloss over threat modeling because they don't equate it with technical work.
Its probably possible to send the recordings TO a unit inside a locked container in your car (via wifi).

I know this might limit the use-cases for an app, as well as require more effort to do, but that would be pretty slick.

Another way to protect the recordings is to live stream the audio to the internet (with location info). This way, the data is already stored online before the police have a chance to go poking around in a confiscated phone.

Maybe even make the streams available in real-time so people can listen in on live stops as they happen.
I agree. "Displaying data in multiple computer windows" is an absolutely ridiculous patent.

I know you guys can win this, best of luck! :)
Yes. A GPU can calculate more than two billion SHA-256 hashes per second, and adding 32 random bytes to each hashing is not going to slow it down enough to matter. Salting protects against rainbow tables; it's not an effective protection against someone just trying to brute-force guess passwords.
Not just AT&T, hundreds of GSM operators agreed to support 7726. How they react to reports probably varies, though.

Verizon apparently supports, as well.
Thanks! Command is bound to e.metaKey so whatever that works out to on PC, but you can specify multiple keys like in the next example, by passing an array.
>Public defenders usually produce better outcomes than private lawyers, the exception being private lawyers who were once district attorneys or public defenders.

Interesting! Do you have a source?
Good suggestion, I'll try that.
The problem is - this is a contact list manager - so you would expect to give permission to this app to access your contact list.

Ideally apple has contact information for this developer, and, presuming the Developer violated some license with regards to what they can do with user data, Apple can now take legal steps against this developer.
So much for the Apple "ecosystem"!
One idea: White room. Similar to copyright avoidance.
I hid the about link for now, we'll bring it back later.

Thanks for the comments, we'll work through those. Much appreciated!