skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not at all clear; maybe he just took much bigger risks than you and got lucky.
Thanks for your response. I was just trying to explain why I didn't like it so far, and what I'd love to see. Good to hear you guys are moving forward and implementing new features.

I don't think people would like to create brand icons manually. If I get a lot of e-mails from john.doe@ah.nl, why not running a separate Node.js instance trying to locate the favicon (and using it to display the logo) by trying known locations, or parsing the HTML; http://ah.nl/favicon.ico

The name of the brand might be easy to fetch by doing a WHOIS lookup. Just a thought...
This is important news and I am happy a first step is taken.

I am not sure about the accuracy of the title of the submitted post though. The official EU text, as reported in the post,[1] does not scold or name anyone. The scolding comes from a press release of the Pirate Party.

1. “[The European Parliament] considers it likely that there will be a growing number of European companies whose activities are effectively dependent on being able to accept payments by card; considers it to be in the public interest to define objective rules describing the circumstances and procedures under which card payment schemes may unilaterally refuse acceptance”
Which Senator's staffs rewrote the bill?
Great job guys
It's pretty scary that you can go to jail (for a long time!) for something as simple as:

> ~curl http://example.com/att/[1-100].html

I understand what the lawyers are saying, but this is just beyond common sense. There should be liabilities for deploying software that publicly gives out information you do not intend to.
There are several good points in the article. Particular the one about https.

That said as a clojure dev I'd much rather work with a nice clojure http library like clj-http than have to use their provided java library.
The writing on the wall was visible to the Australian government as well, which chanced free trade agreements to keep things local.
I was using click-to-play whitelisting for all plugins for a bit and it didn't work really well for me. There are some services that use hidden flash movies, like how grooveshark plays audio. There is no where to click to allow it so you just can't use the service with that feature enabled.

I've been using noscript intstead. It provides an easier interface for approving plugins and more.
As long as they read the rumor mills they had 6-8 month notice.

Still might not be long enough, I'm not sure how much development time it takes for an app like that.
the big announcement here is in the Mobile section: "Android 4/4.1: hardware and software decoder support for h.264 video"
They opened?
Myths and legends supported literally by a joke. American educational system is no worse than Western European[1], and definitely better when it comes to higher education[2].

[1] http://super-economy.blogspot.com/2010/12/amazing-truth-abou... [2] pretty much any ranking will do
Braintree have made an interesting choice in keeping their REST API private and requiring customers use their client libraries. I think they could both have client libraries that they promote as well as a public REST API. Breaking down their reasons:

Security - agree with them on this, the more they can help their users make their systems secure the better. Not sure if it should preclude a public REST API but certainly motivates for having a good client library.

Platform Support - another good reason to have the client library, essentially encoding best practice in the client. I've certainly seen customers abuse features of our APIs. Again, not sure if it should mean keeping the REST API private. Certainly it's a good idea to be defensive on both the client and server (e.g. for queries that request too much data, rate limiting etc.).

Backwards compatibility - Here I disagree with Braintree. I think it should be just as easy to manage backwards compatibility purely on the server side.
Instead of blaming EdgeRank, focus on better Facebook content
You could use prediction markets for something like this (disclaimer: i founded a prediction market software company) but unfortunately using real money isn't allowed in the States which would limit the interest of more serious traders.
What do they need to do special for retina displays?
Ride-Sharing Apps on KQED's Forum going on right now
OED defines activism as: "The policy of active participation or engagement in a particular sphere of activity; spec. the use of vigorous campaigning to bring about political or social change."

Most contemporary terrorists (Islamic extremism being the most salient example) are not terrorizing people for the fun of it. They want to bring about political or social change. The 9/11 terrorists objected to U.S. foreign policy, specifically its support for Israel and continued presence in Saudi Arabia. Terror is just a campaigning tool.

I don't think politicians are too far off the mark when they describe certain contemporary activists as terrorists. As I say, it's a very thin line, and plenty of contemporary activists resort to terror tactics.
If you've never deployed software without security flaws, it means you have never deployed software.
This is troubling. Anyone have advice for who to contact about this? (Should I look up my senator, congresspeople, both?)
Curios, so I checked the website: "iPad with Wi-Fi + Cellular can roam worldwide on GSM/UMTS networks. .. When you travel internationally, you can use a micro-SIM card from a local carrier."

However, they still make you specify your carrier (at&t/verizon/sprint). So, you are getting a carrier-flavored version when you buy an iPad in the US and it is only unlocked for travel?

That is terrible. I am vexed.
Web crypto will never solve this, especially not when provided by a big company like Google/MSFT. They'll always have provisions to make the unencrypted version available to authorities. You can only trust client side encryption.
I don't think this is true... Having never upgraded an unused old iDevice,I'm pretty sure I have still been able to restore from backup without upgrading. But this is really old, so maybe they stopped that in a later firmware update?
On Baldness and Sharing Your Ideas Effectively
The Fixer's Manifesto
Meteor 0.5.1 released
I don't like REST. Making a call to a server should be like calling a function anywhere else - you have your parameters and return value. In REST the parameters are spread over 3 places, the action, the url and the post parameters themselves. It's a much better design to combine all your parameters in one place and keep things simple, for example -

REST version: UPDATE /course/324234 { description: "This is a level 1 course" }

Improved version: POST /course/UpdateDescription { courseId: 324234, description: "This is a level 2 course" }

In this case POST is always used for api calls. Course is the namespace, UpdateDesciption is the method name, and parameters are kept all together as JSON.
Sorry, No Calls
Very nice. I normally do this manually, put together a list of keywords and then obsess over their synonyms and misspells, made-up words, etc. with a thesaurus and domain search website at hand. That is to say, this is definitely helpful in the process of finding a great domain. However, how is this different from the other solutions out there that mix-n-match keywords?
I'm proud to be a part of a small but growing one in Madison, Wisconsin.

At the end of the day, the nerdy dream I always had was to transcend physical location, so I'm always surprised how passionate others can be about where they physically live.
Supposedly the APN submenu is hidden if a certain flag is set by the carrier in their Apple-signed carrier profile (which is distributed with iOS). So the carrier that controls the iOS carrier profile for your SIM's IIN can elect to either hide the menu or not hide the menu.

I'm arguing that on an unlocked phone, this flag should be ignored, OR the software should be re-engineered to do away with the flag in the first place (customers cannot abuse service by editing APNs if the customer is provisioned correctly by the carrier on their end in the first place). It's a dumb restriction, a dumb option to give carriers, and a dumb thing to hoist on customers that bought the phone out-right or who are no longer under contract.
20 Years of PDA's, mobiles and smartphones
All very good points. Nice comment! I wish more people upvoted this to bring it up.

Especially right about "Opera is probably the most configurable, hackable and feature-full browser out there" I still find things to configure and customise to this day... and I have been using it since its "ad-supported" days.
> bitcoin is a great way to transfer wealth out of the country at any moment

For a high-tax region like EU, that's a severe bug, not a feature.
A List of Windows 8 Tweaking Tools
That interface looks like MapQuest ten years ago. Completely unacceptable.
A matter of black and white
I think "Meatspace" has many advantages over async collaboration:

Valuing async commication more than sync communication may be detrimental to efficiency:

Positive peer pressure makes individuals perform better.
To have someone to proudly present even small achievements to, creates a lot of motivation.

Many ideas arise only when people brainstorm spontanously.

Pair-Programming is emperically proven to improve quality and reduce development time.

When reading most of your article I somewhat get that fuzzy cold feeling that the way github works, would not be equally suited to all varieties of ways people are creative.

There are people that are rather introverted that need silence and no one around bothering them. There are those more extroverted that also need a lot of movement and freedom but most of all an audience. There are visual thinkers, haptic-thinkers and acoustic thinkers. There people that always need a social context, and those that do what ever someone sais.
There are those that are creative when alone in there quiet homes, and those that to thinking mainly while talking to someone else.

I doubt that the guthub model is equally fair on these different cognitive types. I read that Nils Bohr for example was thinking mainly by talking to his students. If some genius like him would apply for a job at github, do you think you could exploit his full potential?

Also many developers I know actually prefer a real, physical office, simply because there is no such thing as "home-office" if you have little children at home.

Any model of collaboration that people want to deploy widely through out our culture, should be compatible to different situations in life persons are in, and should respect the different cognitive type, so that everyone has a fair chance to be productive in respect to his potential, and hey lets put it in a not so different term: happy.

I would not fall of my chair by the shock emerging from the surprise, hearing github consists of high achieving, 20-30 y.o. hackers that do nothing but work all night and that party really hard in between, I am right there? Would
I find that rather excluding, exclusive and maybe arrogant.

I doubt this is the kind of work environment, that is family friendly.
Where did you move to? Honestly, I really am curious.
Would getting the FCC involved help? It wouldn't hurt to file a complaint. I think they've forced phone companies to enable unlocking in the past, and Apple needs their approval to sell the iPhone in this country. So they may be willing to get involved.
The headline has, as always, an amount of liberty in summarizing the article to a few words.

The person responsible for inserting the text into the report, who is a Member of the European Parliament, and therefore in some sense representing this particular piece of text, names WikiLeaks and the donation blockade specifically.

Cheers,
Rick
Of course — I said dependance. Just as we depend on abuse of countless people, and we can't stop either overnight. It doesn't change the fact that it's horrible one bit.
Looks like the streets in Tokyo are missing.
CSRF won't usually work unless the spam bot is dumb enough to try and change the token. They usually won't touch hidden fields, the things they like most are <textarea />.

Doubt re-ordering would make much difference either since they probably work on field names and tags.

CAPTCHA can work but you need a difficult one which will also be difficult for humans. Plus spammers can outsource captcha breaking to humans via injecting them into free porn/torrent/movie sites (solve the captcha to get the content) or just by paying someone in india a few cents.
C Corporations don't pay capital gains and dividend taxes. Their investors do. Unless this announcement has a positive effect on HP's stock, there are no additional gains or dividends to be had ahead of the tax rates going up.

For a real example of corporate maneuvers around the 'fiscal cliff', see Wal-Mart, which is moving up its dividend to help its investors avoid a potentially higher rate:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/19/walmart-dividend-i...
Which Senator's lobbyists rewrote that bill? ftfy
I can't believe this encyclopedic article fails to mention the fact that one of the reasons for wanting to abandon the physical standard mass is that its mass has measurably changed over the years, and that the most likely reason for the change is that cosmic rays impinge on the standard mass and collide with particles within it, which turns a tiny amount of mass into a tiny amount of radiated energy, which is radiated away.

The wish to abandon a physical artifact is well-founded regardless of the proximate reason, but the most commonly stated reason deserves mention.
I heard this on the way in this morning, pretty much the only conclusion I have now is that they found life.
yup, once your site becomes popular you get more determined attackers. filtering robots is only the beginning of the game...
NLP requires a lot of computation, how fast does your API run?
If you don't mind me asking, what country did you move too that has better personal rights? I know that Canada and most of the EU have a worse track record than the US when it comes to this.

IMHO moving out of the US just avoids the problem, instead of solving it. We need to put more support behind advocacy groups like the EFF who's mission statement is to fight against the infringement of personal rights.
To be fair the study [1], while tongue-in-cheek, is supported by research of the impact of flavonoids in chocolate on cognitive function [2].

[1] http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMon1211064\

[2] http://jn.nutrition.org/content/139/1/120.long
US patent chief to software patent critics: "Give it a rest already"
Here's where I've found REST very useful:

It makes for predictable APIs for consumers and it means API producers have a checklist of things to implement to consider their interface 'complete'. It also provides a consistent way to think about how to expose an interface (or in fact, how to expose entities).
What makes you think it's fundamentally different anywhere else?
This kind of thing happens often, where you've got "news", but can't disclose until it's final.

In these situations it can be helpful to use some kind of scale or domain reference.

"We've got some pretty exciting news coming up, and we think it could change the world"

vs

"We've got some pretty exciting news coming up, that should really fire up geologists"

vs

"We've got some pretty exciting news coming up, that gets us closer to understanding the history of Mars"

Set a level of expectation.
Just downloaded this and am playing with it now. What a fantastic take on programming - this is definitely the future!
Visualizing Multidimensional Data in 2D
It depends on the category, etc., but our own tests indicate about 100ms latency.
What if I print out the document in plain English and store it in a safe-deposit box? I'd say that's a more apt comparison.
Based on my rudimentary knowledge of metal detectors, I'd guess that the individual pieces are too small. I presume that you don't have a watch resembling a shackle, and there is some non-metal/non-conducting linkage between individual sections of the band that prevents it from having a large inductive cross section. Either that, or the guy is too distracted by your spiffy watch and forgets to press the button that makes it go beep beep beep.
Wow, this is pretty cool! Could you give a few more examples to get a feel for what kind of results you get (and inputs you can give)?
They might think a legislation change to protect horror movie and sex toy makers will have more chance politically, so they wanted the wikileaks thing to have a chance to blow over.
So this is just a copy cat of http://viglink.com/ and http://prosperent.com/tools/prosperlinks isn't it?
No, that's how the value prop from the carrier works out across all of their subscribers. _I_ am paying for my x GB in a monthly fee, and I am resultantly entitled to all of it, as are everyone else who pays them.

Now, we all know their network doesn't have that sort of capacity, and that most don't use their x GB, and that's how they turn a profit... but that doesn't change the fact that, having paid them, I am now entitled to using all of my allowance.

It also doesn't help that the carrier in question is effectively prosecuting (by way of the DoJ) one of my best friends in federal court today for publicly shaming them for having poor security practices surrounding their users' PII.
[2] Better for just the lucky few who can get to the top universities.
Oh sure, sometimes in saturated markets it's easier to increase profits by cutting costs.

"There is no hopefully, this is how things work." Of course.

But with your new unit cost you may want to cut the sales price of the product, expecting to sell more, or something like that. You may also cut your costs and then it backfires. That's where the 'hopefully' part comes from
Good essay. My trick is to realize that humans simply cannot produce ideas, they can only refine them (whether or not that is true doesn't really matter). By thinking that, the only option you have is to LISTEN for ideas and spend all your time trying to whittle down what you hear to something that has a nugget of interest. And then if you worry that idea in your head 4 times as long as a normal person would, you are bound to get to an interesting place with it. I'd recommend that even if you don't want to make a startup because it makes the world a more interesting place to be.
Attrition costs of a Misfire Hire
The Future of Email?
Some of us have observed that the cloud was a stupid idea from the beginning. All the cloud should be is an encrypted data service for locally run and stored programs, without anyone but you having access to the data in unencrypted form.
Yep, someone lobbied and it might not be an actual lobbyist, but a government agency. Regardless, some Senator or Senators is responsible for the rewrite.

We need to know which ones did it. How it was done or who they took direction from is irrelevant. One or more Senators signed off on this.
The ultimate Artificial Intelligence bot challenges
Until recently I lived in San Antonio, TX and over the last year the startup community there has really begun taking off.

Rackspace is aggressively working to build a community there through efforts like Geekdom[1] and 3 Day Startup[2]. Two of the universities (TU and UTSA) are working with Geekdom to build entrepreneurship programs and companies are starting to come out of these efforts.

SA already has a tech community (Rackspace, Denim Group, the massive development groups at USAA, HEB and cyberdefense firms that are doing really cool but unseen stuff) and Geekdom has become the catalyst to draw them all together.

I was there this weekend for 3DS and I'm about to move back to work on some ideas with people I met over the last 72 hours.

1. http://geekdom.com/

2. http://sanantonio.3daystartup.org/
That shouldn’t be a Firefox-specific setting. You can opt to always show scrollbars from System Preferences already.
It could be strategic PR. NPR appears to have an exclusive on the story for the moment. That's good for NPR and serves the purpose of working the rest of the press into a froth.

It would be exactly what you want when you know what you know is true, and might leak anyways, but you are stuck doing the work to add a sigma to the results.
By that reasoning, a lock has the capacity to grant or deny access to whatever is behind a locked door. And if I pick the lock, well, that just means I was sufficiently persuasive that the lock agreed to let me in, doesn't it? Clearly, by using a lock that opens in response to certain inputs, the owner is choosing to grant access to anybody who provides those inputs.

I'm not trying to argue that guessing sequential IDs in a URL is morally the same as picking a lock. I'm arguing that in both cases, there's no human in the loop, so it's not at all obvious to what extent a human should be assigned responsibility. In your example, the letter does not have agency, but the CEO certainly does; and if weev had written 110,000 letters to AT&T that were read and responded to by humans, I can't imagine how there would be any case against him.

See also: the debates surrounding Google's autonomous cars, or the Do-Not-Track header.
The Difference Between Youth and Maturity
A few things:

1) Your iPad, purchased in the US with a carrier selection, comes from the factory with a SIM card in it. This can be used to activate a prepaid data plan _on the device_ right out of the box - via that same carrier's network. (They are minimally provisioned before you get it.)

2) The Sprint/VZW iPads also support CDMA for 3G in addition to LTE (4G) and HSPA+ (GSM 3G). The "ATT" ones do not. (They are different hardware models.)

3) They are all unlocked, GSM-wise.
I'm sure it's a joke, since there's no meaningful and consistent definition of sunrise, for even one geological position.
It's a good point. Hard to distinguish upvotes for "cool!" vs "let's discuss".

I did think about about saying something about "upvote and comment" but 1) was already too long 2) wasn't sure that a sea of 300+ comments is an effective discussion.

Don't have a good answer for you.
For the ones who say due diligence is constrained by time and the company not showing visible signs of fraud, accusations have been flying around for a long time. See http://email-museum.com/2010/04/22/autonomy-creative-account... for example. And note that HP and Autonomy were close partners, HP sells and deployed Autonomy's software. It's not like they have only worked together occasionally.

This kind of stuff is everywhere.

Disclaimer: worked at ex-competitor.
The interesting thing about "unlocked" iPhones is that there are several definitions of "unlocked", viz:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/marcwebertobias/2011/12/22/how-u...

Here's the summary, at least as of the date of that article:

1. The only fully unlocked iPhones are the ones you buy directly from Apple, not from any carrier or reseller (BestBuy, etc.).

2. Your phone may be unlocked for European SIMs but not unlocked for another US carrier.

3. No US CDMA carrier will ever activate an "unlocked" phone previously activated on another CDMA carrier's network.
Self-serving bureaucrat defends his niche...
Take a look at our ruby specs: https://github.com/Maluuba/napi-ruby/blob/master/maluuba_nap...
There's nearly a hundred sample sentences and expected outputs -- and they all pass :)
sounds a lot like tim ferris
Funny, my pet peeve is sites that have fixed headers.
Actually, to be precise, it is because elections to the European parliament use a form of proportional representation.

For example, UK elections do not use PR, but elections to the European Parliament in the UK do.