skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Cute, but the square pixels actually look like small rectangles to me. How did it get past legal?

BTW, we really need an 8-bit GarageBand with sharing features.
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You are clearly a philosopher of language and thought and so I am reluctant to contradict you, but it has been my experience that the construction "A or B" is more commonly used when A and B are non-equivalent. Perhaps you're thinking of the situation where B is an acronym inside parentheses, as in: random access memory (or RAM).

Applying that experience to the sentence in question (and probably because I am not as vigilant as you in detecting attacks against freedom), I read it to distinguish activists who would perhaps be wearing a faux-bomb as protest against security measures from terrorists who would be wearing a real bomb watch.

I look forward to your well reasoned response.
Because you trusted the wrong people, and this has consequences.

The customer has to suffer from the mistakes of the companies so that:

1. She stops trusting any company blindly with her data.

2. The market demands improvements from the service providers (and no, sacrificing a scapegoat in court is not an "improvement").

3. Service companies react. Unless there's a major scandal, companies are slow to react to vulnerabilities.

About that last point, it's a bit unfair to assume that the activist tried to contact AT&T and they didn't react. I honestly don't know if that's what happened in this case, and I hope it is. However there are several cases of companies "turning a blind eye" on the issue.

As a customer, the only entity to blame when such a breach occur, is the provider that you entrusted with your data. Not the activists (regardless of their intents) nor the hackers or whatever monster you heard about in the media.

If I entrust (and pay) someone with my bike and it gets stolen on his watch, who's to blame? The thief or the guardian?
This is the same Patrick Leahy that co-sponsored PIPA.
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Maybe they couldn't find a farmer brave enough to seed a minefield?
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Ask HN: Best thing to do with a sugar-soaked laptop?
One of my colleagues spilled a sugary coffee drink on her 11" MacBook Air. Tekserve suggested it's not worth repairing. Should I send it to Apple for recycling, or are there charities that might try to fix it for use by schools or other worthy causes?
I am generally wary of these self-proclaimed "experts" writing about topics they don't have much idea about.

1) This guy is not a part of* Twitter, so he knows nothing about what Twitter's situation is from the inside.

2) This guy is not a part of* Apple, he has no idea about what Apple's budgets and plans and areas of interest are.

If I were an executive from say, the buyer, that is Apple, give me one good reason why I should listen to this guy's advice?

Writing controversial headlines is good for pageviews, but if you don't know what you're talking about, you might as well not create a stir in an otherwise peaceful community.

(*part of = part of the organization)
Ehhh you get into meta when it comes to options and futures, but I would argue they still aren't zero sum. I mean, you could argue almost everything money wise can be looked at as zero sum.

If a VC buys a 10% stake in company ABC for $1 million the trade looks like:

VC: -$1,000,000, +10% equity (worth $1,000,000)

Net = $0

ABC: +$1,000,000, -10% equity (worth $1,000,000)

Net = $0

Now let's say ABC doubles their valuation. Now the trade looks like:

VC: -$1,000,000, +10% equity (worth $2,000,000)

Net = +$1,000,000

ABC: +$1,000,000, -10% equity (worth $2,000,000)

Net = -$1,000,000

Obviously the $1,000,000 helped ABC double their valuation, which means that the transaction was not zero sum. Same could be said about all investments and to a lesser extent, options and futures. You can't ignore the context of the trades such as using put options to hedge a long position, for example.
You do realize these sheep are not pets and are not treated as such in Afghanistan, right? They will be used for milk, wool, and some will be slaughtered for meat.

This makes sense for the people who live there- the dessert is not an easy place to grow crops and a multi-purpose animal is very valuable for survival purposes. Animal rights is a tough sell in a place like this.

It seems like an ineffective non-systematic way to de-mine that damages animals that the Afghans value though.
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The idea is to simplify writing basic Reads/Writes for simple Scala structures. In this way, you can focus on writing more complex JSON validation/transformation when you need it... For JSON coast-to-coast design that I introduced in previous article, this is quite useful!
Population density is not a problem.

Even at a relatively low population density equivalent to that of Los Angeles, you could fit the entire population of the world 3.4 times over in the contiguous United States.

Agriculture is a potential problem, but technological advances are improving the situation. If everyone switched to vastly more efficient plant-based diets, it wouldn't be a problem at all.
Apple would be far better off buying Joyent.
Maybe if you bought two glasses and flipped one and put them on a frame? The user could "learn" to look through it just like one would use bifocals.
This is not really about how to stop spam, as much as it is a bite-sized statement that we should analyze behavior to tell bots apart from real users.
It's much more complicated than that. Weather patterns will shift dramatically, meaning that our current locations for growing food (for the world) will change. Natural resources by country will shift immensely. There will likely be significant turmoil to sort all this out, with of course the possibility that many will die due to unexpected weather (see Sandy: hundreds dead despite near-perfect short-term weather prediction), food shortages, etc.

Someone more qualified will hopefully answer you - but I can say for sure that your understanding of the potential consequences is so simplified as to be wildly incorrect.
Are you reporting these issues back to the authors of the plugins/themes and providing your fixes for them to include?
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I take your point - what I meant to add in my reply but forgot to was that I doubt allocation of marketing spend / revenue was the only problem. Autonomy's revenue in 2010 was $870m - I'm sure the accounting issues are considerably more complex than what's been reported so far.

I don't think HP escape culpability, but for all we know someone at the auditors or HP were asking the right questions, and were being deliberately misled.
I don't understand. You gave an example of something that "isn't talked about in the media" by posting a link to a major media outlet talking about it?
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I'm not sure how that link supports your assertion I'm wrong. Can you be a little more specific?
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[dead] Lets know people a new way to interact people. [friendmaybe.com] (friendmaybe.com)

1. Why should we follow the link? It seems to have nothing to do with startups or high tech and does not appear to be intellectually stimulating.

If you made this site yourself and you're asking for comments on it, you should start the link text with "Show HN:".

Otherwise, the suspicion is going to be that it's just spam.

2. Poor grammar. You don't interact people, you interact with people. "Lets" is spelt "Let's". There should be some punctuation between "people" and "a": either a colon, or a dash, or a full stop (and then capitalise the "a").

Poor grammar adds to the impression that the link may be spam.
Multiple types of animals have been trained (EG http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/africa/09/07/herorats.detect.l...) to detect land mines. Most animals have much more highly developed senses than ours. It is possible that the flocks of sheep would learn over time to avoid landmines. It's possibly they already do this. It would be better to teach the local people how to train animals than to damage their valuable livestock.
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Are you seriously claiming that everyone who can install a diet app is also able to successfully permanently modify their diet with no additional assistance?
Whatever happened to Scott McGann, who was arrested at LaGuardia in 2009 for having a power strip?
It sounds pretty good - but I wonder what you're doing now, given the post is written in the past tense?
A password at least makes it clear to a bystander that some access control is intended at that URL. Consider the silly case where I have a server responding to example.com/funny/ and then try to claim that it was secure simply because I had not published the link. People would be quite confused if they went to jail for visiting it.
Not exactly the best title, induces initial feeling of `hey havn't the banks messed up enough, keep them away from the climate`.

But on a serious note, this is a worst case analysis and one area when people say rising oceans is that recently in many area's they have gone down. Oceans are like stock it seems! Now alot of these studies also do not factor in land rising and sinking and the effect that has along with even measureing the global water tables on land.

But weather is alot like finance as it is chaotic (ok less predictable over time) and with that maybe th World bank are suited to analyse such things with some authority. But also as with finance, the level of prediction you can make does not mean you can change.

So with that weather can effect finance, but finance can not effect weather. People do in part effect the weather and finance effects people. Its just a vicious circle of people, weather, finance.
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I'm unsure how you mean "extreme diet." If you harvest seeds of wheat which we cannot eat normally (we're not birds!) and have to grind it up into a fine powder, then add water, leavening, and sometimes sugar to make it "palatable", which is the more extreme diet?
Well, unless one has yet to purchase real estate in the bay area.
tx for the answer. due to the price tag I always thought most of the people that afford it, can afford to buy one as well.

I guess you pay a lot of insurance. have you had any problems like 'spoiled kid rents a murcielago, wrecks on the first corner?' or some fun/weird stories? (needless to say the whole business of owning such cars must be fun :) maybe you could do an AMA on reddit)
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I was involved in a startup that tried to find landmines using a genetically engineered plant.

The semen would be spread out over an area and then wherever there was landmines it would turn red. The other area would stay green.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aresa_Biodetection
The TSA seem to do a pretty large amount of stupid things, but this watch is basically a nice way to poke a bear with a stick, and then appear surprised when it attempts to eat your face. The TSA ate his face, the guy was surprised.

I think I saw Boing Boing championing his cause, which isn't too unexpected, but the guy must have known he was running the gauntlet and it detracts from the actual batshit stuff the TSA do.
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I'll give a week until the bots adapt.
I hope they wouldn't start making land mines to farm.
Can you give us an HN discount? I've always wanted to rent one of your cars..
This was a bit of a bust for me as well. Talking about Apple's web services being terrible and then slamming the technology that has made them oodles of money and rarely - if ever - has problems... It seemed a bit extreme.
And areas too cold now will be able to grow food.

Global temperatures have a long-term cycle of about 12 degrees C. We're at a peak, so indeed it seems temperatures have been going up for a while. Now it's time for them to come back down. http://ctdonath.blogspot.com/2012/02/global-climate-change-i...

Climate changes. Cope.
Sorry, but you definitely aren't the first: http://support.wpengine.com/wp-engines-security-environment/
I like the idea because I was in Afghanistan for some time and saw humans in blue suits clearing them in that very same place. I would much prefer a device like this, shiny or not.

Since when did we become so cynical that every effort must be criticized on execution rather than lauded on effort?
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It all depends on where you live. When I lived in the Southeast US in a non-tech-center people were offering one third of that 96/yr number for an intermediate rails developer (this was considered by the community to be a low offer http://whatyoupayfor.pen.io/ ), so you probably couldn't get a full time gig for that no matter how good you were. Now I live near Boston and that number sounds perfectly reasonable.
I had this idea when I worked at Fusebox in NYC in 1999.
Illusion/allusion isn't a grammatical mistake. They're too words that mean different things, but which are very similar syntactically (you can swap between them in a sentence and get two valid sentences which mean entirely different things).

This can be a pernicious source of errors of communication. It is good to point it out.
Could not anti-competitor laws be expanded to also include depended parties? It sound as an logical approach, since anti-competitor laws always discuss market abuse by parties of an monopolistic nature, and the activities against wikileaks looks to match that exactly. The problem is not VISA, MasterCard, and PayPal per say, but their monopolistic statue as payment systems in regard to access to and by end-users. For companies and organizations depended on online revenue like donations or webb-shops, VISA, MasterCard, and PayPal has complete market control over them.
In a way, I'm happy I'm not the only one who has thought about this situation.

I do this every time I'm on an outbound 7 train in New York. The train runs first through a hipster/young area, then a number of distinct ethnic neighborhoods, and finally ends in Flushing (the city's second Chinatown). Needless to say, strategically standing next to certain people in seats is the way to go.
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Embarassment is endurable, so maybe not as effective as we'd hope.

A practical cheap way to clear mines would both be useful locally, and increase the odds of some Senator pushing for a (cheap) goodwill project.
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This is extremely dangerous. Condemning the whistle blowers results in a much less secure environment, since you'll scare away the white hats, and insecure systems will remain insecure. We need whistle blower protection laws in place, and we need them now.
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Perhaps by the state in which a business or other entity is registered.

In some states there are strict laws about maintaining privacy of customer data. But, AFAIK, where I am there's nothing specifically addressing negligence in failing to address a security breach that can be called "cracking".

Government could, as part of their protection of their citizens offer a service of receiving security notices from third parties and passing them on to registered entities. The government run body could then check - and possibly advise on - the fixing of the [potential] data breach.

In the UK the Information Commissioner's Office handle data protection issues (including legislational requirements placed on organisations). They have a form [a .doc, that tells me a lot TBH!] for companies to notify the ICO (http://www.ico.gov.uk/for_organisations/data_protection/lose...); it's not much of a stretch to have a form for third parties but there would need to be legislation to deal with enforcing responses and providing an amnesty for those making [non-malicious] reports.
So many people strive to get coverage on the Techcrunchs and Mashable's of this world and then when it happens, all hell breaks loose! Careful what you wish for!
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I find the story touching. Unexploded ordnance is a problem mainly for children in former war zones.

Imagine if the park / playground / vacant land where you played as a child was mined and you witnessed others, perhaps your friends getting killed or severely maimed there. Such an issue would weigh heavily on you for a lifetime.

While we can't seem to ban war, many countries have joined a treaty banning landmines. That doesn't help with the ~100M unexploded mines in the world already. This is a bigger problem than one would ever imagine.
We use stopforumspam on few large sites.

It misses about 50% of the spammers, there are too many fresh IPs for it to know them all.

It also does "false positives" in that spammers are now using email addresses from legit users, so an email match alone is no longer good enough (if you don't do email verification).

The cookie method described by the post also won't work in the realworld - many times people drop into the very article they are looking for directly from a search engine, read it on the same page, and then leave a comment, so no crawl history.
was later released after he posted $150,000 bail.

So for being completely innocent, he is likely out $15,000 plus attorney's fees and lost work time.

I did database programming back in the early 1990's for a California bail bonding company. As I recall the standard cost for a bail bond was 10% which does not get refunded. This is in addition to someone fronting $150,000 of collateral to secure the bond.

You can post the $150,000 directly with the court and avoid the bond costs. Even if you are rich and have the cash sitting in an account it can take many days to co-ordinate the transfer of cash. (Plus you will have to prove to the court that it is not funds obtained from a criminal enterprise.)

I recall several cases where it appeared that the arresting cops knew there was no case, but figured that they could punish someone due to the cost of the bail fees before the District Attorney, Judges and Juries even got involved.

Basically, the TSA can in effectively fine someone $15,000 at anytime through the extrajudicial punishment.
I've been developing this 'invisible-catpcha' thing for a while now, which is basically meant to block bruteforce attacks and spammers alike from posting comments and registering accounts etc. The visual difference to the end-user is - as said - invisible, which obviously should be a good thing. Now that I read your comment I start to wonder would anyone really even use my service, as then their site's spam blocking would be dependent on me? Is there other people ho see it this way?
>> We live in a tech-filled world without a reliable means for responsible disclosure

There are many avenues for responsible disclosure, Google that phrase.
Perhaps something like wikileaks for internet security? Located outside US jurisdiction?
“But you do his effort to help no favors by upvoting it to the moon because it looks cool. The informed and thoughtful critique in the comments DOES help, and a dialogue talking about the potential application of design to the problem would help still further.“

Upvotes give a post visibility. Visibility fosters discussion. Discussion yields information, critique, and dialogue. I'm uncertain as to why you're complaining about the upvotes given that you want critique and comments.
It's fun to place all blame on the USA, isn't it?

From the below link [1]:
Mine clearance teams in Afghanistan report finding literally dozens of types of landmines, mainly from the ex-USSR, but also from Belgium, Italy, US and the UK. The most infamous mine used during the Soviet Union's occupation period was the so-called 'butterfly' mine. Helicopter crews dropped untold numbers (figures range into the millions) of the small mines from the air.

Also, I found this interesting. Clearly, it's not enough to demine the world, but it's more than the zero dollar amount you basically assume:
[2] Despite its refusal to join the treaty, the U.S. has done more to counteract mines than any other country, spending $1.9 billion during the past 18 years through the Humanitarian Mine Action Program—roughly a quarter of the total spent on demining and other remediation activities around the world. There's been a special emphasis on helping Cambodia, which has received more than $80 million since 1993.

Reason for not signing treaty isn't too great, but there is hope:
[2] The American position is complicated. The United States has not used antipersonnel land mines since 1991, not exported them since 1992, and not produced them since 1997. But the nation has a stockpile of some 10 million land mines, and prior to the '90s, it exported 4.4 million antipersonnel land mines, an unknown number of which are still in the ground.
...
Nonetheless, under pressure from the United States Campaign to Ban Landmines, the Obama Administration has been conducting a comprehensive review of its land mine policy.

4.4 million exported, not clear if that includes how many they planted. This seems like it must be the majority, but it turns out there are an estimated 110 million planted in the world [3].

[1] http://www.afghan-network.net/Landmines/
[2] http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/01/landmines/jenkins-...
[3] http://www.unicef.org/sowc96pk/hidekill.htm
Yes, could you link me up please? Was it by any chance settled.

However, it's not at all a surprise to me. I would note that I say "there is no reason that a sane application of trademark law would prevent a nursery from using such an image" (emphasis added).
http://www.androiduipatterns.com/

Granted, the community is smaller and the starting point is substantially lower (e.g. getting developers of iOS ports to read the Android design guidelines in the first place), but it is the same kind of culture.
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That Suster article was a real eye-opener for many!
This is clearly incorrect. Visit the UK some time. Bank accounts are free, interest bearing, often come with incentives (I get £5 a month from my bank for paying my salary into the account), and offer free online transfer to other UK bank accounts. Oh, and you can withdraw money from any cashpoint for free - not just those of your own bank

Of course, this probably isn't something the bank makes money on. They make money on fees for overdrafts, and on the profit making products they can more easily sell to existing customers. But the same thing happens in the US, too.

In short, don't assume that the massive flaws in US consumer banking are universal, or that they're fundamental to the nature of consumer banking.
Definitely true - I skipped some of the non-PR reasons to be careful, but I liked Jason Roberts' post on that: http://www.codusoperandi.com/posts/forget-the-techcrunch-lau...
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Within the HTML/JS scope, I would like to distinguish between both cases.

I wonder if there is a way find that via some window/doc properties?
I've been using Jerkson (a layer on top of the excellent Jackson JSON processing library) to do case class marshalling/unmarshalling. It works quite well - in fact, nearly perfectly, but it still uses runtime type inspection to get things done. A nice, simplistic typesafe compiled parser would be ideal.

I'd love it if the play folks would break this out of the core library - it seems like this would be applicable to the whole Scala ecosystem, and not just Play.
The Intel board should have fired themselves, too
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Another vote for Pinboard. I have several thousand bookmarks stored there, and have been a user for nearly 2 years.