skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a website you can do local verification of the log in assertion.

Mozilla hosts a verifier as a convenience, but you don't have to use it.
So every company wants a social proof that the person they're interviewing is Really, Really Good -- often even before the person gets the interview.

Problem is, social proofs are purely relative and zero-sum. If everyone graduated from Stanford or worked at Google, having Stanford or Google on your resume would become worthless (and, in fact, this has happened with some technologies that got very popular).

Sounds like a rather contradictory environment, tough to crack.
IPhone 5 Energy Usage and Impact ($0.41/year to charge an iPhone 5)
Seems nice, but would be nice to see some pricing.
> 3.it prompts for your password - gmail password or yahoo password

Yes. In this case the "it" that prompts for your password will be an iframe served from gmail/yahoo. Once they support Persona natively, login.persona.org is no longer in the loop and your gmail/yahoo password goes directly to gmail/yahoo.
CentOS is used on a great percentage of webservers and it does not set initcwnd to 10 by default.

Sadly we have to wait even longer for initrwnd support (minimum 2.6.38 kernel)
As long as you don't redistribute what you copy I can't imagine it being a problem. It looks to be meant for prototyping/wireframing.
> the property doesn't come with a seller's disclosure.

Which is probably a standard clause for a foreclosure? If he bought it from a bank, it's almost certainly a foreclosure.

Foreclosures can be a great deal, they can also turn out to be a horrible investment.

He should have hired an inspector. He should have done it even if it wasn't a foreclosure. An inspector should be somebody you find. Not your lawyer, not your real-estate agent. You. They're the only person in the process looking after your interests. They inspect many homes and know exactly what to look for. You don't.

At the end of the day, this is 100% his fault, but what's done is done.

I would pressure the bank's real-estate agent. They really don't want to be known for selling meth labs ... and they probably have contacts on the inside.

They might arrange for the bank to pay for the necessary clean-up, if such a thing is even possible.
> If you want a fixed size array of bytes, for for it. Zero overhead.

There's the overhead to check the bounds on operations in that array, which you don't have in C.
Developers are already optimizing for keyword search. The article also assumes users aren't already performing long tail searches. The bigger problem is that the search algorithm is broken and favors apps which have more raw downloads.

This means that free or freemium apps rank higher (even on long tail search results). This isn't good for quality apps which are paid purchases but have fewer downloads compared to a mediocre quality but free app.

Keywords and the app title can only be changed when you update an up. So if you 'rinse & repeat' like the slides say, you risk making your search rankings worse.

It also says to put in keywords into the app description. It's fairly well known that the app description does not effect App Store search results.
What is the US Army? What is it for?

What is an information assurance agent?

What is a state secret?

What is a foreign national? What is nationality?
That's what two-factor auth is for.
First World Problem Solver
Microsoft shooting itself in the foot by withholding the Windows Phone 8 SDK?
The password that I create when I setup persona is for what exactly? It doesn't seem to be used at all after the creation a persona.
Introduction to Rails' latest feature: Turbolinks
That happened in the 1990s. At the same time, the US Government tried to directly criminalize unregulated sales of encryption. They lost both fights: in 2012, it is easier than it has ever been to encrypt phone calls in a manner that prevents LEOs from eavesdropping on them.
Contextual unique identifiers seem like pretty bad UX to me, and now you also have the additional requirement that any reasonable screenshot would have the site URL contained in it.
The New York Times will parse and redact the information that they feel could endanger people from any classified information that they may publish or use in an article. They notably published the Pentagon Papers, which showed that the US had been misled regarding Vietnam. This information did not endanger anyone.

Wikileaks, at least with the initial major leak, does not redact or edit information to protect anyone. This has been one of the reasons major journalist outlets (such as NYT) didn't cooperate with them regarding the initial leak.

They simply serve as a clearinghouse for leaked info. The government would almost certainly be able to invoke prior restraint if they were able to take wikileaks to a US court. They were not able to show this in the Pentagon Papers case.

I'm not commenting on the "enemy of state" situation, but I did want to clarify that major difference between an organization such as the NYT and Wikileaks.
Thank you Carimura! Enjoy.
Love the Favicon.
As I understand it Cobra wants to take advantage of .NET ecosystem, it's libraries and all. If you are not into .NET then I guess you are right, but if you are willing to learn .NET or are already familiar with it, then Cobra may be a nice tool. I recently had to write a small library for .NET and used F# for this (I don't like C# and didn't want to use IronPython), but Cobra could be even better fit for what I needed to do.

If you need Python on .NET there always is IronPython, which is quite well supported. I think Cobra was made incompatible with Python syntax to emphasize that it is not Python, it has different aims and philosophy - but I can be dead wrong on this, maybe it's just because author liked some syntax better...

That being said I really don't think syntax matters that much, even if it's very similar (or very different) to something you know already. I learned and use CoffeeScript with pleasure even though it's syntax is similar - but not compatible - with Python's. Given a good syntax highlighting plugin for Vim, which I use as my editor, I have almost no problem at all with switching from Python to Coffee mode - when I end an if statement with ":" it gets highlighted as an object literal and then I instantly know it's wrong. On the other hand I use OCaml and Racket for some of my side-projects and similarly I don't miss much of Python's constructs. I think it is more important for syntax to be consistent than to be familiar or similar to something. I just don't understand marketing languages as "similar to C" in syntax, who cares?
This is a sad story, I don't wish this on anybody. Having bought a house not long ago, I know what a complicated, drawn-out and stressful process it is. I can't imagine what's it's like to deal with a foreclosed property. The fine print is overwhelming, but it's there for a reason.
But, I find it a little disconcerting that people will believe and sign anything with such limited information, especially ones that pull at heart strings...
The article implies that it's not just "a servicemember of the US", but "anyone". Big difference there.
There's even semi-useful transit on 3rd!
Looks like your site's SSL cert expired.
If you want to keep information private, fine, make it a criminal offense for your people to disclose that information to news sources. Case closed.

It already is, that's why Bradley Manning is in detention, the only problem is that it's selectively enforced largely because it's not easy to figure out the source of each leak.
Just updated the post to make my point clear.

Thanks for the feedback.
Which raises the question of why such a useless thing was even standardized in the first place.
"3 years" in not quite the same secret head start that "30 years" is.
I'm curious where you got your data for the graph? For example, I don't understand how R is influenced by Scheme, and S is isn't.
AMD sees opportunity in 'chaos' of Windows 8
No problem, here you go: http://xkcd.com/605/ ;)

Without any real knowledge of the industry, extrapolation to back up my point seems fraught with error. How much of Intel's progress has been the low hanging fruit, and is that last 10% going to take 90% of the time? And what measures would you actually use to measure progress?
Agreed. It would be nice to see running charts or stats showing # of users online, average messages/second, and average $/hr at $1 per 1M rate.
Yeah this sounds like a real fun discussion.
Should You Use Proxy Browsers? (like Opera Mini)
IANAL. However, I don't believe that the US military can impose criminal sanctions on civilians, only their own personnel. (With specific exceptions for being called in to deal with specific emergencies, etc.)

From the article TechDirt links to:
"Declassified US Air Force counter-intelligence documents, released under US freedom-of-information laws, reveal that military personnel who contact WikiLeaks or WikiLeaks supporters may be at risk of being charged with "communicating with the enemy", a military crime that carries a maximum sentence of death."

So far I haven't seen anyone link to the document itself, so it's all third-hand.
So you think it's fair that Bradley Manning has been in prison way past the legal amount, without a trial? You seem to imply that everything the Government is doing now to Wikileaks is fair game.

Manning (if true) and Wikileaks, exposed war crimes. Should they not be exposed? Should the exposing of war crimes be punishable more than the war crimes themselves?
Stagas, you are correct. Thank you for mentioning this. Node is not to blame here as you say. However MMOs require orchestration and server parallelization expertise in order to properly scale an acceptable user experience.
The most valuable thing about your email account is that it's your password recovery mechanism. What ever email account you use for password recovery or logging into things becomes the "super secure" email account.

There is no message in my email that I care more about than the one that might give you access to my bank accounts.
Thanks for sharing this. I can relate with the idea of rewriting over and over again. I dislike how blogs make the idea of editing content once it's posted feel "dirty" since posts are supposed to be temporal. I'm working on something that solves this problem for me: http://converspace.github.com/ConverspaceSpec/
http://www.merriam-webster.com/
...and assuming it's written in Python (is it?), it should be pretty easy to do: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid-cookbook/blob/master/py...
A Bit Of Midweek Startup Humor: How Not To Give A Presentation
So you think NY Times or other media shouldn't have exposed that video of the army guys in helicopter gunning those unarmed men?
We just started adding Twitter support two weeks ago, so we're just getting started with non-programmers. Here's a few early adopters I'm aware of:

https://www.gittip.com/joshuasven/

https://www.gittip.com/eriiicam/

https://www.gittip.com/umemusic/

Maybe this is the page you saw?

https://www.gittip.com/about/goals.html
Yeah I kinda try to complete one project at a time, but mostly the projects get shelved when I lose interest in it because I keep thinking about other stuff and find them more interesting.

Currently I am trying to complete one small project without putting it aside. Though I am still thinking other projects, but luckily at the moment those projects in my head require cash which I don't have, so I can't drop this and start the next.
Why fake a location on a flawed map?
Was the goal just to get caught in doing that? It seems a bit silly to do something like that since Apple Maps is in such a bad shape.
If it's such a clear and cut case, then why isn't there a trial against him yet?
I will say that people are flocking to the suburbs. Many of the artists, yogis and writers I know have chosen to live in places like Oakland and Santa Clara. Not that your usual get-rich hacker would care.
The Air Force cannot declare random people "enemies of the state" and then kill US citizens who talk to them.
>The US has the most to fear because the US leaks like a sieve.

Part of that is the scale of the US military. It has bases all around the world and is almost always at war. More surface area means more leaks.
Mozilla’s “just works” Persona login system hits beta
See I never questioned this, yet this makes total sense now. Thanks for posting this, I am surprised I didn't know about this before. Kind of, opens my eyes.
Sounds pretty interesting, I'm always looking for new sources of new music. Will it be just an email out to the list, or will there be a more interactive community?
Good luck with it!!
Running 2.6 I believe, but these servers are not managed by me, they're owned and administered by my workplace, so I don't have any say on upgrades etc
MacBooks all have a green LED next to the webcam which comes on when it's activated so you can tell if it's trying to spy on you. Lots of other laptops do as well, although I'm not sure how common it is outside the Mac world.
No but, perhaps the emails outing his propagandists in Washington are? http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/releasedate/2012-07-06-06-t... Or perhaps the world is slightly better off for knowing which Western security companies provided support for the Assad regime http://wikileaks.org/syria-files/releasedate/2012-07-16-12-e... To mention just a few. Story from those sources: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/emails-syrian-security-got-co...

If you dig through, chances are you will find something nobody else has yet recognised the significance of.
If the demand outstrips the supply presently in the market (which appears to be the case), employers cannot magically increase the present supply.

Well... at least at the low end, the companies could hire people on aptitude and contract them to stay for some years in exchange for training them.
Thanks, that's really good feedback.

I've pasted your comments into a bug report: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/2539

Feel free to jump in if you have ideas on how we can phrase this better.
Xclip in a few lines of ruby
They had backups in S3 but they were lost in the power outage caused by the storm caused by the orbital bad weather gun.
I believe that what is meant by "criminalizing contact between Wikileaks and active servicemembers" is not that Wikileaks should be considered an enemy of the US, but rather that "leaking secrets to Wikileaks" should be criminalized.

The same should hold for communicating confidential information to any newspaper, I don't believe that Wikileaks should be singled out here.
I'm not sure how you attribute that belief to me.

I simply said that the New York Times and Wikileaks have different procedures for dealing with information leaked to them.

I never said anything about what should or shouldn't have been exposed.
Surely you don't believe that everyone reads the Washington Post?
I swear I still have no idea what app.net is.
Yeah, we actually made the decision to cap the number of users so that the connected users would get a good experience with low latency and high interactivity. We figured that people who really wanted to see it would come back (or look at the video).

Oh, and also since I'm personally paying for the bandwidth and my wife would be unhappy with a big bill at the end of the month paying for a game for other people :-)
Really well done. Thank you!
I'm still a little confused about the actual product. Does it use GPS data to show information about surrounding landmarks? Or something else/more?
I love your idea.
If you have to raise your hands over your head like you're some kind of perp, at least throw two bird fingers while they're taking the xray. You want them to see that you don't have any explosive devices on your middle fingers.
Are we sure the Apple hasn't fixed this since the release? I know people were complaining about getting sent to Brooklyn for what should be Manhattan addresses.

>So why would anyone actually be "looking for 315 E 15th" in New York? The only reasonable reason would be to locate an actual address that does exist in Brooklyn

I'd be really surprised if Apple is checking whether particular street numbers are assigned when it is finding their location. That seems very dependent on iffy data. In fact, I just checked it, and it will gladly locate an address past the last number on a street, and just put the number at the end. (If you get really crazy with the number, it will say 'Approximate Location') Google does the same thing.
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The data is from Freebase http://www.freebase.com/view/computer/programming_language and the code to get the data is in this GitHub repo https://github.com/exploringdata/programming-languages-influ....

From Wikipedia's R page:
"R is an implementation of the S programming language combined with lexical scoping semantics inspired by Scheme."

Guess that explains it.
False analogy. Last I checked, Wikileaks doesn't have a seat at the UN Security Council...
That's not the point. Wikileaks isn't a servicemember, they're the recipient and conveyer of the leak. The point here is a double standard: if a SuperSpy steals info and gives it to China, it's an "incident" that doesn't meaningfully affect diplomacy. If JoeClerk emails the same inforomation to SomeDude on the internet, suddenly SomeDude is a ... enemy of the United States?

Surely you see the problem here, right? It has nothing to do with security processes.
Did these people even view the house before they bought it?
This isn't usually how I hear the NDAA characterized. I'd be interested if you had more I could read on this perspective.

Keep in mind that definitions of terms like "material support" give wide latitude to interpretation. Last I heard there were people in jail under such terms for donating money to what on the surface appeared to be an Islamic charity.

I never ran a mirror, but I configured DNS record for wikileaks when it was under DoS. Does this make me an "enemy of the state" too?

I think these are justified concerns and as an American it saddens me deeply that I would even think to have them.
>The only reason we're not outraged by the breach itself is that it got overshadowed by the subsequent disclosure to the press.

Why be outraged by the breach? It's good to know of double-dealing by one's government. And most of the US info WL has leaked is pretty low level in terms of classification. Other state intel agencies likely already had unauthorized access to the cables, for example.
All they had to try was "53 and 3". Apparently the Ramones were singing about Singapore :)
App.net really needs to work on a branding initiative sooner rather than later. This bootstrap++ styling is not going to work forever. A logo at least.
Can you be more specific as to how you find the UX lacking?

Getting UX right is a priority for Persona.
But do the tech workers actually want zoning changes?
His trial is schedule to begin in Feb. 2013.
Open sourced high-performance, fault-tolerant, distributed file system
The problem with 3rd party apps is that the participation will always be a subset of the overall user base of App.net.

The overall user base of App.net is constrained by financial limitations (pay to play yearly).

So if someone creates an app off of their platform, like the simple chess app, they also need to be a member of App.net to play it. So while you may see the benefits and be a member of App.net, if you want to convince your friend to play who isn't a member of App.net you also need to convince them to pay and join App.net.

App.net is arguing that their business model does not require lots of users to be sustainable. While that may be true, for network effects to take hold, you need users.
7Geese enables you to better achieve your goals, to get recognition, and to gather feedback from your coworkers
This is really a good point.

Unless you're ready to disconnect in real life, living outside the hubs for your tribe is not terrifically great.
Believe me, I live that. :-)
A good start, but I think it misses the things I like about rapportive. The most important thing in rapportive, IMO, is that you see a picture of the person you're responding to. That causes you to respond to a person, rather than just a "user" or "email address" - it forces you to acknowledge the person at the other end, and encourages empathy for them.

This should automatically tell me the person I'm responding to if possible, and show me a picture and context then. A picture (or gravatar) next to their username would also be cool.
There is, United States v. Manning, Bradley E., PFC, presided over by Colonel Denise Lind. Even in civilian courts trials tend to move slowly, especially when there are many different defence motions filed.

The court-martial was due to start on the 21st of this month, but has been delayed as a result of a motion filed by Manning's defence to dismiss all charges. The hearing for this motion will be on 29 October and the court-martial will now only start after that's resolved, expected to be early next year.
I also do not consider the diplomatic cables particularly significant, their release mainly creates personal embarrassment to the diplomats who must apologize in person to the victims of their petty and rude remarks found in the cables... in general nothing revealed was outside the bounds of what is reasonable to discuss if one assumes the conversation will be private (humans are gossipy, petty creatures). They do reveal a somewhat unflattering aspect of diplomacy, but nothing that any realist wouldn't have already imagined.

The meat is in the Iraq and Afghan war logs, so it sort of irks me when the diplomatic cables are discussed b/c they are mostly just gossip column material.
Why does Apple Insider continually use "Google" in this story instead of Motorola Mobility. Yes, Google owns them but they are still their own entity. It's silly to suggest that since a company owns another company that they oversee everything that company does. I think it's fair to say "Google's Motorola Mobility", but if you just read this article you would think that Google itself was behind the advertising campaign.
Would homeowner's insurance cover it? I'd bet the bank has homeowner's insurance on the house.
Because the App Store is ruled by small studios this will have a massive long term effect on the app store itself and its key competitive advantage over android, which is of course it's ability to provide "a (funtional) app for everything". If small studios will have trouble getting discovered they will have trouble in generating revenue and when that happens many other small studios, that don't have enough money for ads at launch, will lose interest in the marketplace as well.
I don't see anything that suggests the LEDs were disabled. Did I miss something?

My guess is that the LEDs weren't disabled, and that's how they got caught. Either that or they physically opened the laptop and disabled the light entirely before renting it out.
I thought Mike Daisey was full of shit
Thank you for vym. I had tried it a long time back (4 years or more) and forgotten. Just created a mind map of my current project.
Netbooks were superlightweight computers you could take anywhere, just like the tablet market the iPad created. Most people complained that the netbooks were underpowered toys with tiny batteries. The first iPad addressed both of those concerns successfully.
> people in the armed services are stewards of all sorts of information that can't be leaked

It's much more complicated than that.

One could credibly defend there is a lot of information that should be made public because doing so is in the best interest of the people of the United States (never forget government != people). Hiding things such as war crimes, torture, extraordinary rendition, aid to dictators and other kinds of assorted undue intereference in internal affairs of sovereign nations goes against the interests of the people.

If, for no other reason, it may make the government better represent the ideals of its people. That can't be a bad thing.