skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Days after Petraeus' resignation stunned Washington,
information continues to emerge. Among other things, a
video has surfaced of a speech by Petraeus' paramour in
which she suggested the Libya attack was targeting a
secret prison at the Benghazi consulate annex, raising
unverified concerns about possible security leaks.

http://www.cnn.com/2012/11/12/us/petraeus-cia-resignation/in...

The affair by itself should've had no impact. In fact, you can find tons of articles from today that talk about how Petraeus had every intention of staying on the job. However, once you get into the realm of 'what classified information did he spill in pillow talk?', then resignation seems like the least he should have to do.

Broadwell is lawyering up[1], and I bet that Petraeus does the same in the next days or weeks. There are going to be some serious criminal liability issues over improperly disclosed national security information.

[1] http://www.abajournal.com/news/article/paula_broadwell_lawye...
Meter control would be useful too. And rhyme highlighting.
Yeah because copy/pasting into notepad/gedit/whatever and clicking save is too much work, you would rather want a save button that goes through thousands more hoops, but now someone else does it for you, to have it stored in a server you will never be able to access.
He's in a country where he claims the authorities will arrest him on sight and plan to execute him, but he won't leave because he loves it there.

Something is not right either with him or these facts.

"[T]he nicest place on earth" is not the place where they poison your dogs and try to kill you.
If you look at the history of espionage going back n thousand years you'll see plenty of cases where people have been blackmailed, extorted, or otherwise compromised through illicit romantic affairs.

It may not be such a big deal if you're a four-star general but it's a very big deal in the intelligence community. If this sort of thing was tolerated at the top level of the CIA, the agency would have no moral authority to enforce the rules among the rank-and-file cloak-and-dagger types.

OTOH if he had reported the affair(s) in question as he was supposed to do, there might have been some room for negotiation. It's not so much the affair, but the cover-up.
You're off by a factor of 10.

That being said, it still seems dubious--given China's online population of 538 million people, that's $5.7 average per person spent, which is a little higher than the average per person expenditure for last year's entire Cyber Monday ($1.2 billion according to the article, and around 210 million people online in the US as of February 2011 according to an online source makes about $5.6). In a country whose average urban per capita disposable income is around 10x lower than the average per capita disposable income in the US overall, I'm taking this with a grain of salt.
Welcome to corporate damage control 101.

A former co-worker of mine used to occasionally bring up the first company email he received: "Effective immediately, so-and-so (not my coworker, someone from a different department) is no longer employed at <company name>. There will be no further comment on this matter."
And what a shame that the majority of users cover it with a cheap, plastic/rubber case! :\
Google's Engineers Are Well Paid, Not Just Well Fed
It's very hard for media - even specialist media - to be as well versed in the technical knowledge of the practitioner. You see it all the time in financial journalism as well where people through around large numbers that are grossly distorted from reality. If the journalists were as good at the technical aspects of what they covered as the practitioners, they would be making a lot more money as practitioners (see for example Michael Arrington, or Michael Moritz before him). Celebrity journalists such as Michael Lewis or Tom Wolfe might be excepted from this rule, although even Andrew Ross Sorkin makes a lot of financial errors in his writing. Dan Primack is one of the few financial journalists who puts so much energy into understanding what he covers to get it right, yet loves the beat so much that he doesn't seem to be interested in becoming a money manager any time soon. I've digressed a bit towards financial journalism, but tech journalism and other journalistic areas in which technical knowledge is required suffer from similar problems.
You would have thought that they guy leading the freaking CIA would have a little more insight to how stupid-easy it would be to get that information out of Google, since they likely do it so regularly[1] in their terrorist hunts.

Further, you'd think he would be versed in better technologies (like encryption and/or anonymous services). What makes it hard to follow up on terrorists? Do that.

He obviously thought hiding things was important, so I can't fathom why he didn't take the security seriously.

1. Or maybe it shows they don't interact much with the like of Google, but I doubt it.
I agree that this was egregious. I wonder if they wrote this headline as linkbait despite knowing that they didn't have the guy's name.
Since most browsers have spell check built-in, I'd figure they wouldn't need to add that.
For what its worth, some are saying Google Play support is saying 9am. https://plus.google.com/106403509262410017977/posts/8yKF2yQn...
Really? Dogs eat anything. Seems like a no brainer to add a bit of poison.
"Its battery life, portability, or performance would suffer significantly. (Probably all three.)"

The existence of the Nexus 7 would seem to nullify the crux of Marco's argument. The Nexus 7 has a 216ppi display, 10 hour battery life and by most accounts it performs excellently.
Tampering with Windows Store apps data
I would disagree. LTE is rolling out pretty rapidly, and there are quite a few places where 3G is useless, even on Telstra. Melbourne CBD has been a long running issue, so has parts of Perth and Sydney, apparently.

DC-HSDPA is great but the lack of uplink speed upgrade to go with it seems to be an issue, IMO. I've seen a few situations where I can pull a few megabits/s on 3G but now the uplink is seriously congested, so interactive applications become very poor.
I think we pretty much all agree that flash is dead on mobile. That includes iPad, iPhone, Android, and so forth.

On the desktop, it's a bit of a different story. Chrome supports Flash on Linux quite well. Internet Explorer also has Flash baked in. There is some whitelisting if you are in "tablet mode"-- or so I am told. It seems like for a normal computer you should be able to turn off tablet mode, though.

I wish Mozilla had put some effort into contributing to Gnash or swfdec. There really wasn't, and isn't, a good flash decoder that isn't derived from Adobe's codebase. All the ones that exist now are toys. I have a feeling that this effort will be no different. I hope I'm wrong.
Security through obscurity never worked.

Baffling that an CIA man does not know this.
Great concept! This needs to become an Emacs mode.
Maybe they should be added to http://plaintextoffenders.com
As a marketplace how does the discounting work? Do they entice their merchants to put up discounts on this day? Are they mainly doing centeralised fulfillment like a fulfilled by amazon or is it up to the merchants to dispatch?
There's no need to keep up with the latest flash version. If you can render 90% of the legacy content out there (ads, animations, simple games) it's already good enough. You can always fall back on the real Flash player if you need to play a fancy game.
Excellent ! I was looking for a like button on the page :)
My test suite takes 9 months to run
Thanks for the update.I am from India so got this news now. Now the fingers are crossed. I hope for the best.
And Also would like to wish you all a Very Happy Diwali.. (Indian Festival Of lights).....
Alienating developers from git? What's next, hiding them the source code? I do not really see the point of this app.
I agree. The article incidentally misses the most obvious reason which is spam prevention.
It's selling in Spain right now, but can't get it because the Play Store has melted.

edit: It's gone now, so that was about 15 minutes. I got mine, yay!
It's funny how even Google can't properly plan for huge traffic spikes.
http://cplusplus.com/doc/tutorial/
http://www.horstmann.com/ccj2/ccjapp3.html
http://www.4p8.com/eric.brasseur/cppcen.html

I was in a similar situation just lately. The above are some very good introductory stuff I found very useful.
No, it's a perfectly valid example of a case where Apple shipped something that was worse than what it had been shipping.
yeah. there are loads of alternative video chat apps. that's not the point of teamchat.
Forget Google - France just hit Amazon with $252M in back taxes
It's no secret that the idea behind Microsoft Research is to keep the talent from working anywhere else. They don't have to ship a darned thing, as long as Google, Apple, or Sun don't either.
We wouldn't have OS X as it is today either.
Antigua and Barbuda radium price
>With the lawsuits, I think too much is made of this. I don't believe it really much affects their ability to make products one way or the other.

It may not affect their ability to design their products but it most certainly affects their marketing, image and business relationships. This goes double when it comes to lawsuits against major business partners (like Samsung).
Wow.. what a bad title..
As far as i understand it's one application they found called S-Memo which stores passwords as plaintext. The title makes it sound as if all application passwords are stored plaintext somehow.. Wow... I guess i'll just avoid geek.com.
I honestly thought you were being sarcastic. I've never heard of someone who has actually used EBCDIC.
How does the GPU of the Nexus 7 compare to the iPad's? Ie. do graphics heavy games such as Infinity Blade run as smoothly? (genuinely asking, never used a Nexus 7 for more than a few minutes)
A SSD in Your Pocket
This article is terrible. What is this doing on the frontpage? It's full of technical errors, and the title is pure linkbait. I was expecting the inside story of the birth of EC2, instead of this, the "Amazon engineer" is only mentioned in the title.
French play store is selling it but it's buggy.

Fun to see that even Google can't sometimes handle load.
And better UI in general; the current one isn't pretty and as futuristic as it should look ;).
I basically agree, but it depends on the definition of programming. For example, I consider "using Excel" programming above a certain level of proficiency. Assuming your therapist, dance instructor, baker, farmer, mother, coach, and musician are actually small business owners, they would certainly benefit from mastering spreadsheets.

Many mothers probably regularly use a calculator for household budgeting. Excel can do that better. However for most mothers it is not worth the effort to learn it, because their calculator is good enough. Providing future mothers with good excel skills would improve their lifes in my opinion.
iPad apps are designed for a screen pixel count of either 1024×768 pixels, or 2048×1536 pixels. An iPad Mini with a “retina” display would† therefore have a 326 ppi display, dramatically more pixels and therefore harder for the GPU to drive than the Nexus 7.

retina iPad: 3.15 megapixels
Nexus 7: 1.02 megapixels
non-retina iPad: 0.79 megapixels

† unless the software was considerably revamped using a different approach than the one Apple has used for every other retina display, probably causing rewrites and an extra obnoxious target from all app authors across the board, as compared to literally zero extra work
The 16gb N 4 version sold out in Germany after 10 minutes... and the 8gb is sold out now after 15 minutes.
I doubt its about size. They can ship the iphone with retina but not the ipad mini.
The fact is the Chrome efficiently runs many tabs. This guy wants an extreme use case to be primarily supported or the browser must suck.

Supporting it would be a waste of developer time. If they run out of ways to make Chrome faster and have nothing better to do then sure, let's deal with this niche problem.
Unless a bunch of people chip in and a single representative will attend with a laundry list of questions :)
problem solved, thanks again.
Trivia. Longhorn was supposedly a completely new architecture. The filesystem was supposed to be SQL Server based plus other architectual astronautery. It was an executive dreamed clusterfuck with no technical merit. Quite similar to IBM's Workplace project, which also never came to fruition.

Both (Longhorn and Workplace) were the culmination of RDBMS hype, where companies left and right tried to solve every problem by using hammer as a tool of choice.

Back to Longhorn, it has been chronically late and finally the project got dumped and rebased upon NT stack. Thus Vista was indeed a rushed attempt of fixing the Longhorn fiasco and after that Win7 was a solution to the Vista fiasco.

Thus from the viewpoint of how bad it could (and indeed should) have been. Both Vista and Win7 were an exceptional success.

Also it made me really appreciate how nimble and agile Microsoft really is.
Good Login Auth system in CodeIgniter? 
Building a website that I hope to have a lot of users on eventually. Need a good user login authentication system that uses email not captcha. Can anyone recommend a library?
I've been using taobao intensively for our business for quite a long time. we are a hardware start-up, we bought components from taobao, make, assemble PCB prototypes from taobao, It's so much better than ebay, for example, they have a IM client for you to chat with the seller, negotiate price and shipping cost in real time, and once the deal is made, they can change the price instantly for you.
There also sites that buy taobao things for you and ship them to the US, so all you need is a paypal account or a credit card, and the ability to read Chinese.
I don't think that was Google responding, and I don't think he should have given them the information he did.
Wow, that was a very convoluted article to say something utterly simple that can be summarized in one sentence: "ipad mini does not have a Retina screen because of GPU and battery restrictions". Marco really knows how to fill pages with Nothing.
That would explain why he wouldn't be so eager to get back to the US now. Thanks!
Regarding your practical sense argument:

I don't see how its strange at all to have an expectation of privacy even if they data mine it -- seems like just a term in a contract to me. For example, if you hire me to protect your valuable manuscripts in my more-secure safe, but grant me in this agreement the exclusive privilege to read these documents with an NDA attached -- would it then obviously follow that I deserve no privacy for those documents AT ALL because I handed them to a third party? Of course not. Many people know and find acceptable that Amazon uses data about your purchases to build suggestions for others -- those same people would consider it completely different to go around telling others what you purchased (government or otherwise). I'm sure even you agree that the expectation that GMail not publish all your emails in a blog post is reasonable -- so the belief in needing a warrant to see them isn't that much of a stretch.

My point is not that this is the current legal interpretation -- I understand its not. I'm simply pointing out that it is perfectly logically consistent from the user's viewpoint to expect this. Furthermore, it seems like if I were to go out of my way in our contract to specify the privacy of your email the government would still think its fine to read it.
He obviously thought obscuring things somewhat was important.

There are always extra step we can take to be more secure. We tend to hold back because security is extra effort and our best measures are rarely worth the hassle when compared with the consequences of disclosure.

Presumably he did not expect that there would be an FBI probe, and so didn't see a need to go through more hassle.
Here it kept swithing between "in stock" and "later", and if you add it on your basket you can't order it and the basket is flushed.

Oh well, time to go to work :)
I was thinking of a fixed gear bike. It can operate in both directions. One direction has handlebars.

Designers shouldn't be expected to support efficiency on the side they didn't put the bars.
fair point - the figures released by taobao are those in the article, so if you distrust those, then so be it.

Anecdotally, I believe it. Everyone I know was buying stuff that day, and not in small amounts - I bought 2 years worth of toothpaste, some baby products, shower gel... average per-order value needs only to be 180RMB, 86RMB per reported user, which isn't a lot of money at all here, despite income disparity.
Longhorn wasn't the codename for Vista - that was a lie we told to cover the truth :) Longhorn was a massively ambitious upgrade to Windows XP that had a whole new relational DB file system (WinFS), managed memory graphics stack comparable to Flash (Avalon), and abstracted network layer (Indigo). The project didn't converge.

In late 2004 we cancelled the project and scrapped all the code we'd written since 2001. We forked Windows Server 2003, and reworked the specs to get the most bang for the buck on a limited time budget. Compromises like using a search index instead of a relational db filesystem, the sidebar was rewritten for the 3rd time, etc. All in all, it was an ok release considering.
I assume it's sold out in the UK.

For a brief period of time the 16gb model showed as being available, but a very buggy shopping cart meant that it was nigh on impossible to actually checkout.

Now it's showing as "coming soon" again.

Edit: And now I've just received the email saying that it's available... oh no it's not.
His definition of voting power is, What is the probability that one person’s vote will be able to turn a national election? That's the same as my definition.

His theorem is that, in the presence of an overall preference for one candidate over another, voting power diminishes rapidly. But the diminishment is significantly lower in a districting system. (Of course this increase in voting power is directly tied to the possibility that a district could send the election to the loser of the popular vote - which most of us regard as a bad thing.)

My point is that, even with significant overall preferences, the lottery system that I describe keeps voter power constant. And in the presence of a noticeable national preference, that constant value is much larger than districting provides. If you want voter power (your ballot could wind up meaning something), the lottery system provides it.

As to the question of illegal voter purges and the electoral college, whenever a small, identifiable, subset of the population is seen to determine the election, then incentives say that all possible means of swaying the election will be focused on that group. The fact that advertising is focused on swing states is obvious. The fact that dirty tricks are likewise is less obvious, but no less true. And the more you increase the relative importance of those states, the more true this becomes.
Brain-damaged man 'aware' of scientists' questions
So whats the big deal?
Google has regularly demonstrated an inability to handle large volumes of buyers. The Google IO ticket sales have been a joke the last two years.
I got that impression during an interview with them in Cambridge in 2005. They genuinely couldn't promise that anything that was done was going to end up in a product or would actually be used.

Fortunately I was too crap to be considered a threat if I wasn't hired :)
We had the same problems. Lots of pissed off people in the forums. I wanted a 16gb but didn't get it and have a 8gb now. Oh well...

I'm surprised Google didn't manage this better.
Comments pack a bite,
Albeit often trite.
An IDE,
For poetry?
Is really quite alright.
Some non-technical advice:

* Ask tons of questions. Not questions for the sake of questions but relevant, interesting questions.

* Get to know people. It's never too early to start networking and you'd be surprised how likely it is that you'll cross paths with some of these Googlers further down the line.

* Pay attention and work hard. A good work ethic is unfortunately a rare commodity. Showing a willingness to get your head down and get stuck in won't go unnoticed.
Poets and rappers
I am going to be that guy. The article may be well written, yet a complete waste of my time. It presents no insights, and most of us on HN will learn absolutely nothing from it. HN discussions shouldn't be the same as those on Engadget and Techcrunch.

Maybe there should be a checkbox which says "Yes, I think this is interesting for _hackers_."
That is nothing, I have 20 years of experience in Coffescript; is like AJAX but with a better flavor.
This was so frustrating, to add the item to your cart, to then be thrown constant errors and being unable to proceed.

Of all the people, you would have expected Google to be able to handle the traffic.
US Supreme Court Justice Holmes was using it as an analogy. I was not. I was using it as an example.

US Supreme Court Justice Holmes was wrong. His analogy was bad one that was thankfully rejected.

I may be wrong in this case about whether the freedom to insult people for no reason should be protected, I am still mulling it over, however I was not wrong and a free society is not wrong to sanction shouting "fire" in a crowded cinema.
Programming and Competition
See edj's cliffs notes version of McAfee's adventures: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4776504

> 8 November 2012: Oops! Turns out he moved to Belize and planted the rumor that he lost 96% of his wealth to avoid possible damages in case he loses the civil lawsuits against him in the US related to his nephew's death. Oh, and now he hangs out with known gangsters. http://gizmodo.com/5958877/secrets-schemes-and-lots-of-guns-...
I think there is something wrong with both him and the country.

He's nuts and he didn't pay a large enough bribe.
In the bottom right of your Gmail settings:

Last account activity: 48 minutes ago
Details

Yeeeep. Real secure. One peek gives you every IP address involved. Well, you can get around it with TOR, but that has its own problems.
Mini-Microsoft: A Microsoft Without Sinofsky?
Living your life as plankton is the same thing as never going outside your comfort zone. And while a minuscule few have great things fall into their lap, most of us have to push outside the comfort zone to find anything meaningful and worthwhile in life.
Either they can do it or they shouldn't do it at all. It makes little sense to read an article that you know from the beginning is wrong because the journalist couldn't understand what he's writing about. Bad information is worse than no information.
You would think so, but this isn't new for Google.
> Secondly, a world where EVERYONE has a job where computing is of central importance is one I personally would never strive towards. We should ask ourselves if we really want to stick all of society behind a computer.

This is not really what we are advocating. Our claim with "Read Write Code" is that these are now essential skills, even if that is not what you spend all of your time doing. Few become professional readers or writers, but many find reading and writing useful skills. Computers are used in many parts of daily life--even if you don't become a programmer, a knowledge of problem solving with computers will be useful.