skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The worst QR code implementation I've seen was at a quick-lube place. The QR code was on a banner inside the garage, but because the light from outside would wash out any camera, you had to get out of your car to scan it. Then all it did was open a web page telling you to text a number to get a coupon...
Not always. When they fly own their own they still collide sometimes.
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I don't think this is a standard thing that you would find in a home so it probably wouldn't be part of a standard home inspection. Things like mold which are more prevalent would be higher on the list of priorities. They could however easily test for specific chemicals used in meth cooking if desired.
SF is on a peninsula and Manhattan's an island. Chicago is relatively low-rise as well, but there's a lot more land in back of it. I hate the SF planning process, but there's no question that the city's growth is partly constrained by geography.
I didn't get that either. Gittip is clearly growing, it is clearly interesting to a variety of people, and it is clearly wrestling with difficult but important concepts.
Can someone explain how this is distributed and not using a central "authority"? I know it caches things locally, but it still requires Mozilla's Persona.org servers, correct? And you need a password that Mozilla stores, so aren't their servers still vulnerable? And couldn't (dumb) people still choose "123456" as their persona password? I understand that this makes the sites with crappy security implementations better, but some of the weaknesses are still there, right?
"This is a ridiculous concept".

How nice and friendly of you.
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I may be not far from the truth http://www.bgr.com/2012/09/03/nexus-7-3g-release-date-rumor/
Lately if its anything Apple related it seems to be interpreted as a bad thing. It is getting tiresome.
The Persona cross-browser support shim needs window.postMessage and the HTML5 storage APIs, which IE 7 doesn't have. Working around it didn't seem worth the security and maintainability cost to the codebase, nor the opportunity cost over working on other features.
JFK made a speech before the American Newspaper Publishers Association in 1961. His discussion of the dangers of stifling transparency - often in the name of public safety - seems as important today:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhZk8ronces
Wind force goes up as the square of speed, not the cube. Available power goes up as the cube.

Friends of mine are building vertical axis turbines. The key to safety seems to be to make the blades out of lightweight foam & kevlar so that if they do shatter they aren't flinging big heavy pieces around.
It probably isn't the intention but that will serve as a validation of wikileaks in the eyes of quite a few people.
Sigh. Next up, imprisoning US "Dissidents".
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>Nothing new gets built. All those good old days people constricted supply and then got pissed when the demand hiked prices and they could no longer afford it.

Exactly. I wrote this comment yesterday:

>If employers offered significantly higher wages then plenty more supply would quickly appear to clear the market

This is really a housing supply question as Matt Yglesias makes clear here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... and as others have written (see, for example, Ryan Avent's The Gated City). Housing costs in Silicon Valley are insane, which prices out lower skill workers and forces companies to pay more for highly skilled workers. Allowing to higher building heights and reduce setback requirements alone would do a lot to improve the jobs situation.
you should probably press ctrl-g the next time you press ctrl-f to search for something in Freemind, to see what happens.

The search is better than I thought, as it will treat whitespace in between terms as the equivalent of ".*" in grep/vim search.

So ctrl-f "C++ class" will return the first match if it is "C++ will resume after class", and ctrl-g will find the next deepest match. My only problem with Freemind is that it's java based, so it takes 10 seconds to start up and it craps out with too many nodes. This makes it irritating to take notes after you reach a certain point. I don't like xmind at all either.
same here, really annoying
Bingo. See here: http://www.slate.com/articles/business/moneybox/2012/05/face... for more.
What a naff article. That girl in Gilligan's island wasn't called "ginger" for nothing.

Sodders!
I've found the low hanging fruit is to add initcwnd 10 to your ip route and setting tcp_slow_start_after_idle=0
I'm not aware of a "webcam on" LED on most laptop webcams - as far as I know, a webcam is just a sensor that picks up light. Some smartphones have an LED for flash next to the webcam, but most don't. I've owned webcams that had no LEDs on them whatsoever, notably Logitech webcams from 2002.

Did the article say something about an LED being disabled? If so, I missed it. I think the issue is that anti-theft software was intentionally activated, which turned the webcam on and streamed it to another location, where store employees indulged their voyeurism.
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I think your service is having some trouble. The updates appear fairly smooth because the client continues rendering the last vector seen for each avatar. However, when comparing with several friends also connected it's clear that very few of the messages are getting through and sometimes only in one direction.

Also the dynamic poll/sample interval you implemented seems to hit 1000ms (1 second) and stay there.
in 5 years many people using the web will have no idea what you're talking about when you say "browser" :)
No, it does not mean that. The federal authorization to kill Taliban and AlQ operatives arises from the 2003 Iraq AUMF; there isn't some doctrine that says "if the military designates you as an enemy of the state they can kill you with winged death robots".
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Your opening digression is a bit harsh. We're all experienced web-devs, with the accumulated knowledge of building websites that have reached in excess of several hundred million individuals.

SEO - True. There are many different strategies to deliver solid SEO results using technologies like Spar. You can use headless browsers to pre-render and deliver on-demand rendered content, if you know your URL space completely, you can pre-render all documents. Spar isn't an attempt to solve SEO for you, you may not even care if you are building a phone-gap app, for instance. So does that invalidate the technology?

Accessibility: I'm 100% behind accessibility, and if the compatible tricks don't work... do you still make your site accessible for IE3? No... screen- readers MUST catch up. We can all do what we can to help, but shouldn't engineer for the past, which is an orthogonal concern from accessibile technology choices.

Page-performance - I'll challenge the several orders of magnitude claim, we've seen incredible performance w/ the approach, and best-case you're only talking about first-page speed, even ceding that it becomes a much different story later on... and if you're building an 'app' thats a big difference.
While it's completely reasonable for the US to be concerned with preventing breaches of classified information, the problem with the US reaction to the horrors and gaffes revealed by Wikileaks is that there has been absolutely zero outrage about them, only the attempt to shoot the messenger.

This asymmetry has been a real awakening for me about the level of corruption and moral bankruptcy of the US ruling class, and about the apathy and complicity of the press and the citizenry in general.

I think we are already past the inflection point that historians will one day view as similar to the turning points that led to Nazi Germany and other large scale moral failings of humanity. There is a culture of denial and intentional blindness to the consequences of US actions abroad and a terrible enthusiasm for the leaders who initiate these kinds of things.
Without commenting on this particular document, the military has an extremely valid reason for criminalizing contact between Wikileaks and active servicemembers; people in the armed services are stewards of all sorts of information that can't be leaked, and Wikileaks has a stated goal of extracting as much intelligence from the US military as they can.

This "declaration" (it's a Techdirt story; someone could do us all a favor by trying to verify what it actually means) comes in the wake of the most grievous opsec breach in US history. The only reason we're not outraged by the breach itself is that it got overshadowed by the subsequent disclosure to the press. If it had been Israel that extracted this information and not ransomed it to The Guardian, we'd be calling for heads to roll over it.
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Please connect those dots for us.
You could also try to find someone in the same boat and trade reviews - a mentor is great, but code reviews by a peer are also extremely useful.
Only if you stay strictly on/west of Valencia. The rest of the Mission is as fucked as ever. Let's not forget that the murder rate east of Valencia St is, at least in the last couple of months, working out to be 1 every 2 weeks.
The link you provide is not a citation to a peer reviewed journal article as your claims about scientific evidence would suggest, but is a link to a self published ebook hat you are charging money for. Please take your shilling elsewhere.
No. If anyone does, it'd be Balanced, our payment processor. Here's the Gittip ticket about this:

https://github.com/whit537/www.gittip.com/issues/279
Being on the Change.org mailing list, I signed this petition. Lately, though, I've come to ignore the mass emails the organization sends out. This story is definitely sad and the writer and his family deserves justice, but no less than most other petitions on that site. I wonder why this story garnered more interest in me, and on HN, as well.
I believe the aim is to have email providers be able to auth your persona email instead of Mozilla, but Mozilla exists as a sort of polyfill if the provider (eg. hotmail.com, gmail.com, your-custom-domain.net) doesn't do persona yet.

Also, yes: people can still choose crummy passwords. Personally, I don't think the appeal is in better security; it's convenience of single sign-on without it being tied to a. identity or b. Facebook (or twitter or google or whatever other service that harvests my data).
Primary source here http://wikileaks.org/US-Military-Refers-to-Julian.html
Technical error: the force of the wind depends on the square of the wind speed (q = rho * u^2/2). The cube law refers to power (proportional to rho * u^3/2).

Good article though. For those using software to design and analyze mechanical designs with "pretty good confidence," there's nothing more humbling than actually trying to build it.
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Lead paint is pretty easy to figure out, though.

Lead paint was banned in the US in 1978. If the house was built before or around that time(say, up until 1980), it's a good idea to test before purchasing.

However, if it was built in the late 80's or 90's, there's practically no chance of lead paint in the house.
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I think people would notice what Developer A is doing, and stop tipping him.
Aside from Collateral Murder, what shocking revelations have come to light as a result of the leaks? Not saying they don't exist, but speculating perhaps some of the 'revelations' weren't so shocking or were even publicly known.
Obama himself gave a speech before the UN just yesterday extolling the virtues of free speech:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/president-obamas-2012...
You can manage your account (e.g. change password, remove emails) by signing into https://login.persona.org .
Remember the tech from Minority Report? The guy that imagined it is making real.
relevant: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_MKUltra

Edit: This just goes to show what you say != what you do
Fuck this country-limited shit... honestly!
Right, but the email providers are only authenticating you to Persona. As far as the websites using Persona are concerned, it's persona.org that authenticates you.

And the appeal that Mozilla is pushing is definitely better security (as well as a distributed security authentication versus one for-profit authority - I definitely trust Mozilla MUCH more than Facebook or twitter, but it's still a central authority). You can especially see this in the talk they gave introducing it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZBTc7iEkQY
> Wikileaks has a stated goal of extracting as much intelligence from the US military as they can.

I've followed this for quite sometime and I do not recall this ever being a stated goal of Wikileaks.
It is a stated goal of theirs to publish anything a whistle-blower sends them. If the US military has the most to fear it might be because they have the most to hide in regards to warcrimes etc.

Primary Source here: http://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/Assange-WikiLeaks-Enemy-USAF-FO...

Original article was in the Sydney Morning Herald. This is a rewrite of a rewrite of the documents.
What TechDirt and the title suggest is that people communicating with Wikileaks could be considered "talking with the enemy," the real restriction is on military personnel. Maybe that's still bad, but we generally accept that the military can place restrictions on people its soldiers are allowed to talk with.

They refer to a FOIA request releasing a document from the Air Force, but the link is to another news article, not the document. Anyone have the original so we can read for ourselves?

EDIT derrida provides primary document below: http://wikileaks.org/IMG/pdf/Assange-WikiLeaks-Enemy-USAF-FO...
Finally, I wonder if mind maps is the best way to document and manage ideas? I can see that one might be able to find relationships and synergies by exploring a map. This is a case where I have consistently used text files to log ideas and related links, text, etc. I now have hundreds of these files. It's at the point where the directories that contain them are impossible to view and get a sense of what is there. This meaning that you can't see 300+ file names and easily understand and/or explore the concepts within them and relating them. Do you (or anyone reading this, of course) have any experience managing such information using mind maps?

I used to log ideas and interesting texts, too, but I don't have hundred of them despite working two months on them. I have about 25 sections. This is because of my focus on rewriting them over and over again in the intention of developing them into essays or projects. They are at: http://kibabase.com/articles/notes-and-thoughts
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I've read pop science articles saying that memory is hierarchical, topic based and associative at the neuron level. Which kind of resembles a tree, like this.
More like an Enemy of the United States MILITARY. I personally like to be informed about what my tax dollars are funding around the world.
The bank almost certainly hired people to clean the place and make it pretty for sale. This is only to be expected - everyone cleans a place they are going to sell. If those people cleaned out a whole weird chemistry setup, they should be forced to at least disclose and hopefully test, but that will depend on jurisdiction. If the previous owners cleared out all obvious signs, which might well be expected given that leaving a trail could lead to criminal charges, then it is hard to say - meth contamination may or may not be common enough to merit checking always, I really don't have the data.
Just out of curiosity: are the Russians classified as "Enemy of the US"? How about the Chinese? Or the DPRK?

The Chinese military and government, for example, is way more actively trying to get military secrets out of the US, and not for altruistic reasons either. What makes them saints compared to Wikileaks?
There's a typo in the book title. Schoolfor should be two words. :P
The right to free speech does not imply the right to force people to speak.
What an odd read. There's a lot of things that you need to research before purchasing a home. I don't think we should require everyone to test a house for meth before selling it. Really, argon testing would make more sense as it's much more common, but even that I would disagree with.

Just off the top of my head there is:

- Asbestos

- Radon, methane, and, and other hazardous gases

- Lead Paint

- Structural issues

- Grade/drainage issues

- Flood/tornado/some other natural disaster zone

- Water contamination (for wells)

- Termites and other pests

- etc.. etc...

Typically, there's a seller's disclosure that's provided with a property that basically states that if the owner is aware of anything, they should inform the buyer. Foreclosures and certain types of investment properties don't come with this, because, well technically the seller wouldn't be aware of anything in most cases. It's standard procedure. If there is any complaint to be made here, it might be one of willful negligence on the part of FM, but again, it says right there in the contract and the listing: do your due diligence... no seller's disclosure provided. I've seen foreclosures much worse than this one.

Really, due diligence should be the buyer's responsibility and if they want the seller to pay for any testing, it should be put it in the contract. Again, if FM knew about this ahead of time, I'm sure there are already laws in place to protect the buyer. If FM didn't know, then no one is at fault. It's just a freak thing and stuff like this happens.
This is a massively huge deal for attribution of organic search.

The queries you can download from webmaster tools are just 1 column of data....nothing to tie queries to conversions or any meaningful metric.

If it was everyone who was losing this data...I could understand the change but if you buy adwords ads, you still get the referral data even in https Google.
Did Freddie Mac know this was a former meth lab or not?
Persona doesn't require any browser integration. It works in all browsers that implement local storage. So it works via modern Javascript.
"Twitter $130 million in mobile ad revenue this yr vs Facebook’s $70 million"
Thoughts on the accuracy of this statement?
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That they then do not turn around and inform the general public.
Actually, the fine print probably just said "due diligence" is the buyer's responsibility and the property doesn't come with a seller's disclosure.

[edit] Which by the way, is all the seller should have to say in this situation. See my full opinion below.
you need to do some extrapolation plots to back your claim.
There is a lot going on behind the scenes that we don't know about. For example: whatever happened to the BoA emails they were going to reveal? Isn't it convenient that some "rogue" guy in Germany ran away with these emails? Given Assange's background and technical capabilities, isn't it surprising that he allowed it to happen?
The US has the most to fear because the US leaks like a sieve.

If the countries with the most evil militaries had the most to fear, we'd all be remote desktopping into the laptops of Syrian generals right now.
The phrase that comes to mind is Noblesse oblige

I am probably looking with rose tinted spectacles, but post WWII there seemed to be a ruling class who tried to live up to noble words.

These days the ruling class see gutter fighting as an acceptable response, lining your pockets with contracts as due payment and constitutions as inconvenice not guidance.

If you are a 600-pound gorilla, sticking to the queensbury rules is not likely to affect the outcome. But it will affect how trusted you are the next fight you get into.
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I can understand why you like it, but I find the sound it produces to be annoying. I am also an amateur musician. I find it mostly creates a homogenized vocal sound and promotes laziness.
That being said, I never considered it's role in amateur musicianship. I was mostly thinking at the level of popular music.
We'll also be looking into DNS-based delegation for the next beta: https://github.com/mozilla/browserid/issues/1523
Collateral Murder was not a shocking revelation. The Washington Post ran a transcript of that video, scene for scene, a year before the video was released. The video only shocked people who don't read.
Yes but over 1/3 of the city population is concentrated in the lakefront neighborhoods. Everywhere you look there are shiny, new condos and apartment buildings.

I am thinking of moving to the Chi and was surprised that rent is less than half of the average bay area price. A lot of craigslist ads even tell applicants that they require a check for eviction court as part of their deposit. In total contrast to SF's rent controls.
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Pretty awesome story!
They've already stated that you'll be able to put your site logo and name into the login box [1].

As far as the password, I thought it was pretty clear that the password they are asking for is your Persona password, but maybe that's because I had just signed up.

The point is that you'll only ever need one password, so it'll be great to be able to have one strong password rather than tens of weaker ones.

[1] http://identity.mozilla.com/post/32395255498/announcing-the-...
It's fully distributed because the identity provider is your email domain. When joe@gmail.com logs in, gmail.com could be the only server that the system interacts with! This is described here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Persona/.well-known... Gmail may or may not choose to become an identity provider. That's ok too. In that case, a secure Mozilla server (with a sane privacy policy) will broker the email verification instead and thus can vouch for the user's identity.