skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem with that is, they don't have the passphrase, so they can't put it into the game they show you. And you don't know it, so you can't enter it, even if you want to.

You can't produce the password. You can only subconsciously recognize it.

From the original paper:

Further complicating the attacker’s life is the fact
that subjecting a person to many random SISL games may
obliterate the learned sequence or cause the person to
learn an incorrect sequence thereby making extraction
impossible.

They can, at best, try to log in as you, record the sequence the terminal gives, have you (under duress!) play against that sequence in a remote location, determine the code, and train themselves. But that requires a login failure; this particular system is supposed to panic after even one login failure.
Here's my iconoclast answer (with a further caveat that I'm a systems programmer who follows web development in my spare time, not an expert on any of this):

Backbone (or Spine, which is just like Backbone but a tiny bit smaller and written in CoffeeScript) is Yet Another MVC Framework. So think of it like Rails, except this time it runs in the client browser. So instead of translating between SQL and Ruby, you're translating between JSON and DOM. There's a "Model" abstraction, which is just a data structure but has fancy features like the ability to "save" it to the server and the ability to listen for changes. And there are "views", which are just the same old DOM/CSS/jQuery environment you know, with the single stipulation that they need to be associated with exactly one Model. And, just like rails, there are "Controllers" which all the guru's seem to understand just fine but that look like huge messy piles of logic soup to the rest of us.

And, like all MVC frameworks before and after, it's subject to the framework disease. You don't "use" MVC, you "port to it". It infects everything you do, such that you get indoctrinated into the particular MVC subculture you've chosen and spend your time screaming at other people on the internet instead of writing code (edit: c.f. rimantas below.).

Stay away. Or if you must use it, be sane and safe, and stay away from the culture.
The problem is here is that they are peeking into private folders. So if their algorithm gets 'positive' my private folder will get scanned by some employee.
That is just creepy - really creepy.
Well you should read the terms of service, and then adhere to them. Perhaps Microsoft would do well to provide in bold letters near the front that most people will find their terms intolerable and should probably not sign up for SkyDrive.
Embrace MOOCs - Online Higher Education
The idea of combining things that are deployment-specific and things that should be in version control in a single file seems... suspect to say the least. Just separate out your DB connection string into its own file and gitignore that.
Last I checked, science -- not technology -- is about expanding the frontiers of human knowledge. Technology is the reification and application of that knowledge: necessarily a messy thing.
People should be aware that even though they say they can give you a watch or whatever half a year from now for $99, that doesn't mean that they will or that it will be as good as you think it will be.

But yes, Kickstarter is selling dreams. It's helping start-ups take off simply by believing in their vision.
People that never looked at what dropbox does were shocked that dropbox has the technical ability to look at file contents. All encryption is done on the dropbox servers.
Lipophobia and the bad science diet
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>Firefox lost market share because Chrome was a leaner, faster, and better browser.

Not to mention secure. Sandboxed PDF reader, java whitelisting, sandboxed and auto-updating flash, etc while FF and IE were arrogantly telling users "Fuck you, update your own add ons, they're not our problem" even when all the exploits were from these add ons. Now IE and FF ape some of these features. I can't wait to hear the next angry Asa Doztler diatribe aimed at enterprise IT admins and their demands. Asa is a roadmap on how to lose users and quickly become 3rd best.

Good to hear FF is starting to get competitive again. I hope this trend continues.
So, what do you guys use at Fog Creek. I've been discussing with my colleagues some of the micro-ORMs like Dapper, Massive, or PetaPoco as an alternative to EF.

http://code.google.com/p/dapper-dot-net/ <br/ >
https://github.com/robconery/massive <br/ >
http://www.toptensoftware.com/petapoco/ <br/ >
I read these numbers, and I look at my bandwidth costs at my data center, and I think, "wow, it sure is fortunate that so much excess backbone capacity ended up being build in the dot com era."
Ubuntu Unveils New Web Apps Feature
Yes, but in order to move outside of the Lances, a different approach has to be developed. It needs not to be a geek-only campaign and instead needs to be a campaign that includes non-geeks.

Remember, most of the world are not geeks, and in a representative democracy, that means very few people in power are geeks. Geeks need to be able to communicate these socio-technical issues to non-geeks. I really hope that the Internet defence league works to communicate to the mainstream of the culture - the non-geeks - what's going on, because the mainstream is the primary driver of how we move politically (technically it's a feedback loop with the mass media playing a large part, but mainstream culture carries a large momentum and sway).
Google search may be good but do you really mean it is a good thing they have a monopoly? (which was I think the question)
Did they avoid using bats for copyright reasons?-) Cat doesn't cut it as much as bat I guess.
Because the machining is gorgeous

I used to have the hypoid pinion I removed from my Toyota pickup truck rear end (when I changed the gear ratio to compensate for larger tires) as a paperweight on my desk. The flowing curves and polished steel gave it a really Art-Deco look.

It was free, beautiful and weighing close to 10 lbs, very functional. Can't beat that :-)
Microsoft employee on stack ranking and its 'most universally hated exec'
That list appears to be incomplete. For example, there is a windows-specific closed source software renderer for WebGL that is in Chrome and not Chromium.
Comment on myself: that should be static references that I'm warning against. There's nothing wrong with static primitives like integer constants.
Is exclusivity required only for independent developers, or does that also apply to non-MS published titles?
How do you get on the Frontpage of Hacker News? (4 Links in 1 Day)
Too bad this seems very US centric...
If I were you I would have inspired myself from iNode structure found in ExtFS. Here is what I would have done:

Category -> Array of tuples (imagine nested array) where each tuple contains (Key to a group, Number of elements in group).

You can use something like JSON (I won't recommend that) or MsgPack (this will work best for you my guess) for serialising your array. Now the nifty part comes in holding the number of elements in a group you can have fixed sizes or you can find out average number members in a group (do the maths) combine it with your standard deviation and make an intelligent decision. Adding requires you looking at the last element in category if you filled the cap create a new group and append it into category container. If you face yourself with value size do yourself a favour and compress the values against keys ( I've two complete blog posts to get you convinced http://blog.creapptives.com/post/27331500697/msgpack-vs-json... and http://blog.creapptives.com/post/25026698783/speeding-up-you...) use something fast like libsnappy or lz4 to compress your values. Hope it helps!
having seen a few blogs about this in the past I tried out Inconsolata before, but always reverted back to DejaVuSansMono as I never had much luck with Inconsolata and Konsole..
specifically, the problem I have is:

http://imgur.com/a/oy0uW

the top one is Inconsolata, the bottom one DejaVu.. anyone else come across this behaviour before? I'm never sure of what to google to get it sorted.. and haven't managed to figure it out
Any way you cut this, Google seems ready to benefit from this coup.
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I always wonder why Firefox gives the option to update Java and Flash et al when it never works. Has anyone ever gotten plugins to update from within Firefox?
If Microsoft really wants to compete with Apple they should kill Office on OS X and revoke license for Windows on BootCamp and all OS X virtualization products. Though really they should have done these things 5 years ago. Apple doesn't allow Windows users to run OS X, Microsoft shouldn't allow the other way.
You mean the Cloud is not the panacea for online life that everyone acts like it is? You mean there's a reason you may not want to ditch having your own storage hardware in favor of "all cloud all the time." huh.

Seriously, why would anyone use this service. No profanity?
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This. Microsoft has always executed its fully-baked plans very well, and credit should go where it's due there.

The problem is with a lack of a fully-baked overall vision. And the problem is even more so with the combination of undignified heel-nipping and desperate clinging to a zombie vision from the 1990s (most recently re-branded as "Windows Everywhere") that is being allowed to serve as a substitute for a real vision.
The state has a monopoly on violence that can only be wielded in certain circumstances and certain rules. Most people think that is a good idea.
And it's just 20 pages long! Damn. Never saw us charging like that when I worked for one of their subsidiaries.
I don't know what they use at Fog Creek, but I will say that I've been building a lot of things lately in both Massive and PetaPoco, and I've really enjoyed it. I've done several projects in both Linq2SQL and EntityFramework at this point, and they both seem way too 'heavy.' Writing straight sql (or pretty much straight sql) has been a return to simplicity. it's forced me to make sure my queries are efficient, and only return what they need to return.

I do miss using Linq to query the db, but not enough to make me go back. I use EF in my main job, and while it does the job, sometimes I find myself being constrained by the framework. That's not an issue with EF so much as it is an issue with any kind of ORM.
Any idea on what it actually does? How does it detect "danger"? It seems more like an attempt to co-opt internet freedom movements than actually do anything at all.
Bryan Caplan explains how he loves education
Any reason in particular for that? Seems a bit harsh.
Not necessarily. Of course defining classes is tricky, and there's no such thing as a rule of thumb, and that's more what I was trying to relay with my comment. And I agree with others who are saying that a piece of software where objects are crammed with tons of static classes is bad OOP.
Plan to archive every tweet in the Library of Congress still happening
Not having the CEO be the vision person in a highly politicized environment like MS means there will never be a vision person. Good "vision people" (are they smoking peyote or something? ;) don't like to put up with that kind of crap that shackles their ability to make change.
Yes, sorry, I will stop the inappropriate uppercase usage
Office Next: Using the new Office with touch
Different advertising providers pay according to different schemes. Some pay every time an ad is shown to a user. This is the cost-per-impression model. Some pay every time an ad is clicked. This is the cost-per-click model. And some pay every time an ad is clicked and then an action occurs (like a signup or a purchase). This is the cost-per-action model.

Here's some criteria you could use to estimate ad revenue: number of users, number of times an ad is shown to a user per session, number of sessions per user, the model your advertising provider's using, the average cost-per-impression, cost-per-click, or cost-per-action, the click rate on your ads (if it's a cost-per-click or cost-per-action model), the conversion rate on the advertiser's site (if it's a cost-per-action model), the fill rate (you're not likely to get ads 100% of the time you ask for one, primarily due to users being located somewhere underserved by your ad provider), and so on.

There's so many variables, whatever estimate you get is likely to be a wild-ass guess - and not valid for long, since mobile advertising is a fast-developing industry and rates aren't always stable. (To complicate matters, advertising in general is very seasonal.)

It might be easier to just ask some developers you know with ad-supported apps for a rough revenue per user number, and take the average. Or talk to a rep at an advertising provider and try and get an honest guess out of him.
The process of making art ought to die the same death as the author in literature. A work should stand on its own merits; whether you spent months learning how to process a particular ancient film stock or pushed a button in a program is really irrelevant to the artistic value of the end product.
This is done very well. I realized I had spent several minutes clicking "dark" over and over again with my language of choice selected, carefully weighing the pro's and con's of each little theme.

I am one of those guys that thinks that having a universal, easy-to-understand syntax highlighting scheme is very important. I'm a vim guy, and my world was completely changed when I found that the "torte" colorscheme was packaged with vim and available on all of my machines; from my OSX box to my Linux and BSD servers. I think the default syntax highlighting scheme, especially on dark terminals, looks gross.

I move my ~/.vimrc around everywhere -- the relevant lines here are:

syntax on
colorscheme torte

I know there have been a lot of posts recently about vim. Just like the "day of a founder" posts, some of us really appreciate the inspiration and cool hacks, while some people think it's getting way too superfluous. Personally, I'm easily inspired :)

Hopefully this tool will help some people out, but I'd also suggest looking at the colorschemes that ship with vim first; it might save the headache of porting a scheme around all over the place if you're like me and edit code and text everywhere!
I'm really not sold on this. Something that could be delivered exclusively to the device is now inexorably tied to a piece of paper--scratch that; many, many sheets of paper.
Good lord those comments gave me a headache. How do people manage to find that page if they can't manage to figure out what Chrome or Chromium are in the first place?
True.

So it's not unbreakable, nor is it crypto. I'm not sure if it's anything, really.
How can you possible be granted a patent for the removal of a function from an existing idea?

Can I take away the headlights from a car and patent it as something new?
I think I will simply take his comment as a generalisation. The semantics from the dictionary simply state the application of science is technology. i.e Computer science applied, is technology.

I agree whole heartedly, learning the science is key.
I don't know the answer to the first question you ask, but state law seems to indicate that yes, electronic devices -- at least when used for illegal drug sales -- are special:

RCW 9.73.200: "conversations regarding illegal drug operations should be intercepted, transmitted, and recorded in certain circumstances without prior judicial approval in order to protect the life and safety of law enforcement personnel and to enhance prosecution of drug offenses, and that that interception and transmission can be done without violating the constitutional guarantees of privacy".

[1]: http://apps.leg.wa.gov/rcw/default.aspx?cite=9.73.200
> It would be interesting to know why the US dont want to allow people the right to be named as author of their own work?

You can have that right if you negotiate for it in a contract or make it a condition of the license you release the work under.

The more interesting question is why other countries want there to be rights granted by law that authors cannot give up.
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More fundamental than that: I think the issue is poor performance management and the well-connected tenured employees that can't break free from decades-old paradigms.
Care to share this dataset? Otherwise one can only consider you as trustworthy as the stories you condemn.
This is more of an accounting trick then an actual problem. Normally a company would write down a bad asset over a series of quarters to help drive good will from investors. As MSFT is currently preforming very strongly I think they chose this route (The quarterly loss) so that subsequent quarters when they launch their new products , and more specifically the Microsoft surface. They have good comparison numbers.
Just to give my 2c, EF is not so much an alternative to Dapper/Massive/PetaPoco as an alternative to NHibernate.

Both are "heavy-duty" orms, while those 3 are more lightweight. My personal view is that for writes and maintaining a domain model, NH (or EF, but I prefer NH) is a good option, and when you need performance or just want a light layer to ease the mappings from sql to objects, micro-orms are the best option.
I've never been so terrified of a "buy with one-click" button in my life.
I prefer Anonymous because it it's legible at low resolutions. Any font can take advantage of high resolution, it opens up a lot of freedom to the artist.
Ya, is there a clean version of that picture somewhere?
Except it also means, as per pretty much every dictionary, to copy unlawfully. The same cannot be said of theft/stealing.
Subtext, for those of you who don't know how analyst firms work:

Vendors subscribe to these things, or buy reports for their field, in order to get access to analysts. Access to analysts ensures that they themselves will appear in these reports.
We hate it when this logic - "it's not in the public interest to prosecute them, whether or not they broke the law" - is applied to big banks. Apple should be treated no differently.
It's pretty obvious that you are talking from a UK perspective here. The situation is radically different in the US, where the OP is based.
I use Pixelmator all the time on my mac, it's excellent and I rarely find myself wishing for Photoshop.
or is it "baboon", or an intentional mix of the two?
I don't think that's a good analogy though. People feel peer pressure to accept the humiliation of the TSA because it is for our "safety." When it comes to long term storage of our privates, I think there will be a different attitude.
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There's a technical reason for the range, explained in the blog post:

> Why the range? Write IOPS performance to an SSD is dependent on something called the LBA (Logical Block Addressing) span. As the number of writes to diverse locations grows, more time must be spent updating the associated metadata. This is (very roughly speaking) the SSD equivalent of seek time for a rotating device, and represents per-operation overhead.
TL;DR version: OpEd on Kickstarter, and more specifically on Ouya.

Answer to the headline, in spite of Betteridge's law, is 'yes they are.' More along the lines of why would you invest your money in a Kickstarter project? And the answer is that what you imagine it will be like greatly exceeeds what it actually will be like.

I pointed this out to in another conversation that making a good pitch is a lot simpler than making a good product (We were discussing the difference between hype and reality, our examples were the RasberryPi and the Ouya). And people buy into the pitch, sometimes overwhelmingly so, and when it comes up short they often blame the pitchman not themselves.

I experienced a bit of this first hand when putting together 'hobby' robotics projects with folks. There is no amount of disclaimer that can break the spell.

It reminded me of a t-shirt I saw which was an expression "Makers != Engineers" and I thought it a bit snarky at the time but realized there is a grain of truth there. Anyone can have an idea, but not all of them can execute on it.
I discovered Inconsolata two years ago or so, and it's been my go-to monospaced font ever since. I have it set to 11 points anti-aliased and it just looks gorgeous!

For your viewing pleasure, here is what my typical development environment looks like (anti-aliased retina 11pt Inconsolata):

http://akhun.com/seo/skitch/Screen_Shot_2012-07-19_at_10.17....
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I can imagine many women pressuring their husbands to take that deal though

Mostly the ones who don't want him around. If I worked anything near those hours on a consistent basis, my wife would divorce me. And I wouldn't blame her!
Its hard for me to say this in some ways, but of the bigcos, I'm most bullish on Microsoft. I might actually go stand in line (if there are any) for the Surface tablet and maybe even a Windows Phone 8 device.

They are (finally) making the right moves and doing it in a consistent and open way. Any Microsoft insiders know who is driving all this change? ScottGu? Steven Sinofsky?
> so much excess backbone capacity
Do spam emails really consume that much bandwidth? I don't see long texts besides those from that nice Nigerian Minister...
Indeed, it's also great to see that they are starting to use more widely accepted open source licenses, which as the Apache License (as was also the case with ASP.NET MVC).
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>I'm promoting the statistical observation that there is a 90%-95% chance that these types of stories are made up.

As far as statistics go, there's a 100% percent chance you pulled that one out your arse.
I was referring to the whole "Walt used to work at a company, and stuff happened" background, which the writers have completely abandoned and forgotten everything about. It made Walt's choice to not take the offered money really uninteresting, because he might have had reasons to that were barely alluded to in the show.

A guy presumable goes from working in a billion-dollar company to a K12 chemistry teacher, and we're somehow not supposed to try to understand the prior history, which to me is paramount to wrap our heads around Walt's thoughts and state of mind.
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The async property doesn't work in IE
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Please, no. Don't try to make us feel superior by disparaging the other aggregator. Even if there was a competition, blanket statements on a community would not impress.
Steven Sinofsky, then ScottGu.
Pretty much:)
You will get a $5 Amazon MP3 Credit if you buy a textbook >$25.
So I guess it's worth it.
Think about what FB/imgur enable people to do and what myspace enabled people to do.
Ksplice and a few other technical features could make this a technically better choice than RHEL (although I'd focus on adding security features beyond RHEL, which breaks some compatibility).
So what can I sell this copy for?

http://www.idc.com/MarketScape/download/IDC_MarketScape_Virt...