skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Doesn't appear to be confirmed whatsoever. That rumor was based on an "anonymous" phone call. On Sunday, another report shows the complete opposite, with Belize officials denying any claims of his capture:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2012/12/02/Official-d...
I guess it depends on whether they're going to use the Irish Subsidiary in such a way that it allows other legal entities to reduce their corporation tax bill in higher rate locations.

The popular one at the moment being The Double Irish (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Double_Irish_arrangement) which Google, Amazon and Starbucks have been using very successfully recently.

Not suggesting this is necessarily what Dropbox are going to do but it might enable something like this, should they wish to.
Hate IE10? You're a troll, Microsoft says
Do you want to pay for such a study? I’m sure that many psychology or sociology departments would happily take your money.

But even with money, studying long term effects of media use is fiendishly difficult. Most studies looking at the impact of media use focus on short term effects, because that’s in many cases the only pragmatic solution.

For studying long term effects, experiments pretty much fall flat. You cannot control the media exposure of people for weeks and months. Even this experiment (probably) didn’t stop participants from using other media before they came to the lab, so control over media exposure was limited to the 2.5h or 50m.

So you have to rely on surveys and do a panel study (i.e. ask the same people the same questions at different points in time) – and that’s just messy. The randomization can no longer do all the work for you and you have to control for all variables that could plausibly also influence participants behavior, independent of media exposure. Expect mostly suggestions and never really solid results from that.
I've done a number of MOOCs now, and I've learned to ignore the timeline in some cases. Sure, I don't get a certificate, but that's never been the point for me.

I just learned about the Neural Net class about a week ago and it's scheduled to end today. I decided not to let that stop me and went through all the lectures in a week. I'm going to have to watch a lot of them again, and I need some time to work with the concepts, but I enjoyed 'cramming' it all in one big gulp.

On the flip side, I stopped doing the Computational Finance at week 8 of 10, but I'll go back and finish it up over the holidays.

And on the third hand, the Modern American Poetry class I did was best done following the timeline, so that I go to participate in the forums at the same time as everyone else. That was a very forum heavy class, though, which is rare.

Anyway, I'm just glad all this stuff is out there now. I've learned a ridiculous amount in the last year.
Exactly.

A few of my posts on HN on that:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4852081
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3538189 - that was an year ago!
With the UK being the biggest userbase in the EU for Dropbox its a shame they've decided to open up in Dublin, as my accountant would say its a good "tax optimisation" strategy.

Sure, hate the game not the player, but they could have scored some major plus points on the day Public Accounts Committee in the UK have poured scorn on Google, Amazon and Starbucks:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-20559791
This is the main problem with Chrome for me at the moment. How hard can it be to add a master password prompt before showing the passwords? Or even to only store them encrypted?

I know they wouldn't really be safe even if encrypted, but I just want them not to be available to any random person that has access to my computer for 3 minutes...
how about, without encrypted comms, its like posting a letter by not putting it in an evelope and sticking it to the outside of a bus
Because of Java ?
I use the add-on Ghostery, which filters out page elements that are known as trackers, including the ShareThis buttons. So I couldn't see any buttons below the statement "Share this list using the buttons below."

One solution to this problem is to offer at least one share button that is provided solely by your site.
I completely missed it so I guess you should do a better job introducing it to your users as a main feature, also create browsers plugins - bookmarklet might work for HN user, but not for 99% others, it also gives you a little more publicity.

Also I did find something interesting from Gadgets section but the width of the "pinterest style" boxes are so narrow, the pictures small and no price tags - it's hard to get my attention at least.
I think you should mind your own business before teaching the skills to other people.

Because "I probably would not hire anyone who thinks X" is a really lousy argument on NH. In the first place.
Thank you perl! You taught me ruby..... And you taught me, how to be dynamic ...
This is true of Firefox and (possibly?) IE as well, though IE doesn't have an option to show the passwords in the UI.

If a user has access to your desktop, then it really doesn't matter if your saved passwords are stored in plain text, you've already lost.

And what's the alternative? Ask for a "master" password every time Chrome wants to auto-complete a password for you? That's what extensions like lastpass do, but I don't think it makes sense for that to be the default.
Not intended to excuse Chrome here in any way, but I've had no problem using KeePass for my passwords. I use a Chrome extension to let KeePass entries auto-populate in the browser, and my database locks itself after only a few minutes of inactivity (or I can explicitly lock it).
What do you think it should do instead?

There is no way for it to encrypt the passwords without having to ask you to enter a master password each time it starts.

You could argue that it shouldn't let you see them through the user interface, but I would argue that this would be useless - security through obscurity.
> the web/html works better the more one designs for the least common denominator, not pushing it to its limits

The only way to move the least common denominator forward (aka. progress) is to have people pushing the tech to the limits.
That kind of money is tiddlywinks for city's and states, the real ongoing scam is what is called the 'capital expenditure budgets' of these orgnizations. Massive sums of money, that tend to go no-bid, or fixed bid contracts with the authorities buddies. Services to constituents get cut, but the capital exp. budget never gets cut, it is always increased.
> Jobs took outside funding. Gates did not.

Just a minor error. Microsoft did raise a vc round before they went public.

It doesn't really affect your point as the control given up was pretty minimal.
A random person with access to your computer could easily install a keylogger in those 3 minutes.
My problem with TechCrunch (which I don't read regularly, because reading about unqualified hucksters getting $8-million acq-hire welfare checks for IUsedThisToilet apps is not going to improve my life) is that it seems like an attempt to create the old, broken social regime within the new one. Instead of focusing on potential, it seems to document the whims of these wizard-priests called "venture capitalists" who, as a class, don't seem to be doing better than they would if they selected startups randomly.

For example, if you think velvet-rope parties at SxSW are a good thing, you're not a technologist and you don't belong in this century. Technologists want to make the world inclusive and prosperous, not exclusive and shitty.
To everyone complaining about UX on his site: please don't. Don't even look at the effects, don't think about how it looks, it's irrelevant. Instead, go read the code. And if you want to complain about how it's written, it's ok - paste example snippets and talk about them. Show how you'd optimize this or that transition, what you'd do better. I find your complaints - without these snippets and rationale - annoying and missing the point.
I think this post does a really good job of explaining map and reduce.

However, I don't quite agree with this: "Without understanding functional programming, you can't invent MapReduce".

It is possible to do map/reduce using an object paradigm without functors (or even functions/methods).

Example:

object reduce = new Reduce {
array = new CompositeThing { ... },
action = new ActionThing { ... }
};

float r = reduce.runAsFloat;

where CompositeThing can be an actual composite or a reference to a composite (a key/ value store for example) and ActionThing is a composition of objects that define the operation on a single entity in the CompositeThing.
Another alternative to lambda move capture
Ok cool - we'll make it much more prominent. With regard to the second bit of feedback - we'll be adding price soon and will continue to iterate so the pictures are sharper and better quality, and bigger, but we wanted to get it out there before xmas and get people's feedback. We'll add it to the list. Thanks
oelewapperke (who is suffering from one of the worst cases of hellbanning I have seen here) wrote:

Weird that nobody realizes that the constitution does say that the government not only has the right to violate any (other) law to violate the constitution, but actually has the duty to do so.
To protect the constitution (and it's application within it's jurisdiction), the president (ie. the government) has the right AND the duty to violate ANY American law except clause 1 and 2 of the constitution. To put it plainly : the ONLY thing the president cannot do to defend the constitution is to mess with elections. That's it. It also states that the president is the person making the assessment if an action is necessary (and thus, not the courts, though of course, the president can be removed from office for making a decision that either congress or the courts think was not reasonable. That does not change the fact that the president cannot be punished for implementing that action. The maximum penalty for any crime for the president is impeachment, unless this is specifically extended by congress).
This is because article 2 of the constitution overrides every other law in the US, except article 1, including all following articles and amendments.
If you think this sequence is by accident, you should talk to a lawyer about things like this. Sequence in laws, and the principle that earlier rules override later ones is extremely well established technique of law.
What everybody seems to think these laws state, that you have extensive rights without any qualifications whatsoever, is just plainly not true. If you are a danger to the application of the US constitution within US borders, the president is not bound to any standard, nor does he have to respect any form of human rights in his attempts to stop you from doing so.
If you think it is better in European states, think again. Specifically, read what the Dutch monarch is allowed to do (e.g. she can have someone killed - both her and the actual murderer go free, she can confiscate any amount of property - with no legal recourse for anyone, etc.). Similar things are true for other Euro countries.
LastPass anyone ?
I have a couple quibbles with the article, notably:

> Special support for Ajax URLs

being raised as an industry standard and a best practice, whereas it's a Google hack of a solution.

HTML5 history.pushState[0] is the proper standard solution, with a nice polyfill[1]

[0]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/DOM/Manipulating_th...

[1]: https://github.com/balupton/history.js
most browsers don't encrypt your locally stored password ... if you've not setup a master password on Firefox it's accessible there in plaintext as well to almost anyone with the knowledge.

Firefox: Tools->Options->Security click on Saved Passwords button.

Does Chrome need a master password system? Yes
Is Chrome non-standard by not encrypting the locally stored passwords? Not really
Why is the author so excited about this? We all knew this feature exists, infact, personally I have been using it to remember my old passwords. Yes, it could be dangerous if someone else is going to view it, but it is as dangerous as giving them your PC.

I'm surprised that such a 'no-value' article has made it to the front page.
it might be surprising to find that Talktalk and bt (i think) went to court fighting the original blocking orders, they were very unwilling to implement mandatory blocking
Only an opinion, but PandoDaily seems to have adopted the worst parts of TechCrunch. It's practically VC backed advertising.
i wonder if he will get a 30 day trial..
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Indeed. Thanks, fixed.
Building, say, indices
John Mcafee Safe
srsly? omgwtfbbq!

(I've been waiting for many years for an appropriate reason to use that ridiculous non-acronym. Thank you Texas.)
Amazon Web Services Invent 2012 Slides
"Me, I want to be a natural. I want to show up at the first class and discover I have a knack for whatever it is we're going to study - pottery, Japanese calligraphy, racquetball, oil painting, flute. I don't mind work, as long as it comes easily, with guaranteed results. But I'm usually the class dunce, or at least that's what it feels like as I struggle to keep up after the going gets tough. Eventually I quit, loath to spend precious effort on what could be a mediocre outcome."

This almost hurt me phisically.
This link to an earlier HN comment from 59 days ago is not a response to your survey, but it includes tips about hiring processes in general.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4613543

Read this for background. Check all the linked articles mentioned in the comment for more details.
Seems like a pinterest clone, even the bookmarklet seems copy/pasted.
Why is it even an issue..
We, the People, Control the Internet!..
Its like the World… Everyone Lives in it, but nobody truly controls it..
Its not possible to control
If people try, then I guess WW3 wont be nuclear at all..
Don't save your passwords in the browser. Instead save them in a password manager such as Password Gorilla: https://github.com/zdia/gorilla/wiki

This way, your passwords become "browser independent". You can switch browsers at will, but still have all your passwords in the same place.
Asynchronous learning will definitely play a major role in the future, as will a more fine-grained graph-navigation approach, because there's a wide spectrum of the world population for which the September-May, two-semester academic calendar doesn't make sense, but the problem is that it's hard to integrate testing (and certification) into that. Answers to exams will appear on the Internet at some point in time, so the exam questions will have to be refreshed continuously.

Academic honesty is probably the biggest hurdle that online education is going to face. Once grades for these courses start to matter (and at some point, they will) there will be people in the world who will try to cheat.
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right, just a hint, for password managing in firefox I use LastPass, it encrypt and autocomplete all.
Point: There was a proposed D Day in August 1942 which was called off - hence OK for Operation Chariot March 28th 1942. Also CMPWN - Campbeltown? See Call of Duty Failed D Day. It is a SPOOF - albeit a good one. Not to say it is indecipherable.
I guess the business model here is affiliate marketing. I noticed that the URLs you use to redirect to Amazon.co.uk product pages don't include the "tag=your-associate-id" query string parameter. Are you still eligible for commission?
Of course! If you don't want to have to put in a password, then of course it will have to be (a) stored and (b) stored in plain text!
:( sad to hear that rEFIt no longer works. I've never got a dual boot OS X / Gentoo console-only laptop working, but it was always my dream. So sad OS X can't boot into a console mode.
Not loading, but what is the wishlist problem?
The same that now are allowing WebGL Shaders to be attached to CSS properties:

http://www.w3.org/Graphics/fx/wiki/CSS_Shaders_Security
> What to keep and for how long time ?

Try to make the data anonymous when possible (remove from log file all potential personnal data, not needed by your data process). If usernames are kept and can contain personnal data, if you don't need these data, remove them from log file.

Log only valuable data you need and only for the amout of time you need them.

> Is there any guideline here ?

In Europe, you have the obligation to retain all informations needed to identify the owner of an online publication.

"This Directive aims to harmonise Member States’ provisions
concerning the obligations of the providers of publicly available
electronic communications services or of public communications
networks with respect to the retention of certain data which are
generated or processed by them, in order to ensure that the data
are available for the purpose of the investigation, detection and
prosecution of serious crime, as defined by each Member State in
its national law." - Directive 2006/24/EC - http://bit.ly/HxZcW

If you are based in Europe, you must refer to your national law for more informations.
>"That's what extensions like lastpass do, but I don't think it makes sense for that to be the default."

LastPass keeps you logged in to your "vault" either while the browser remains open, or by time limit. So you're really only entering the master password once per session. I think Firefox has a similar feature; you enter a master password the first time you try to access your passwords.

People not using features like this, at the very the least, is pretty sad. LastPass saved my sanity.
Not trying to belittle this project, but I don't get its appeal. The magic of pictures, for me, are perfectly timed ones, not blurry and random photographs or storing and going through 3k pics/day to check "today's good one"

Has anybody done some research on the product? Could you please give me a briefing of why it's better than a camera on your phone?

I only see drawbacks: from the fact that you have some geeky-cyberpunk look because there is a camera hanging from your neck; legal implications ("is that a camera? can you turn it off please?"), etc. I, for one, don't like the prospect of people knowing I'm recording everything.

Thanks
The curse of the HN homepage - we are taking a look at it, sorry for the outage..
I agree with this. The entire promise of password auto-save is to save the user TIME. If the browser locked itself every couple of minutes and asked for a master password between visits, it would not help the user save TIME.

I think the author is confusing a feature exclusively created for convenience with one that would be targeting security exclusively.

PS: However, what better way to get HN traffic than a sensational title like that...
Bad Metrics
He is now apparently safe with his girlfriend outside Belize with a couple of folks from Vice Magazine, and the guy that was arrested was deliberate smokescreen on McAfee's part.

http://www.whoismcafee.com/i-am-safe/

If the plot gets any thicker it'll be impenetrable soon. Guy should have written chess software while he was at it.
I can't be the only one who stops reading articles when the entire first section is contorted self-congratulation?

This is up there with The Next Web always vainly touting what they "told us" in the last article.

Say something interesting. Don't tell me how great you are. It immediately diminishes my opinion of people and companies because it makes it clear they are more interested in recognition and taking credit than in being interesting.
Now he says he safe:

http://www.whoismcafee.com/i-am-safe/

Last three sentences bring the usual dose of crazy.
Establishing an office (or even just a legal entity for the company) in Ireland to benefit from the various tax schemes can be done without needing to hire lots of devs there. This isn't all about tax.
Yep it is affiliate marketing - we just launched to friends and family here in the UK to begin with but have just applied to SkimLinks so will turn any of our links into affiliate links.
This problem has been mitigated in OS X with Keychain, Gnome with Keyring and KDE with Kwallet. If there would be a standard application like that for passwords in Windows it would probably make it easier for most users to keep their passwords from being so easily accessible in cleartext (and I know there are a lot of 3rd party options available, but only power users tend to install those).
What is Reactive Demand Programming?
"millions of taxpayer dollars are wasted on good ideas that fail for stupid reasons"

I guess that's better than £1 billion on a not-very-good idea that fails for stupid reasons:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Trams

£1 billion (and counting) to transport people along a pretty short route in a city that has excellent bus and taxi services is a wonder of our time - there are only half a million or so people in Edinburgh so that's £2000 per person for a service most of us will never use....
Std::move and lambda? It's just partial application
No fucking shit, it has to be able to decrypt them to send them to websites.
It's not, it's "tax avoidance" which is entirely legal but various Governments (UK and France in particular) and starting to get upset about.

"Tax evasion" is not paying tax that you must pay. "Tax avoidance" is finding ways to not be liable for the tax in the first place.
This seems to be one of the better implementations I've seen, but this idea has been kicked around for years to no avail. I literally just finished talking to someone who is working on the exact same thing.

Keep in mind, Facebook already tried Marketplaces and that totally failed, even with an abundant lock on their target audience.
That every Christmas and birthday my family ask me what I want for Xmas/birthday and that I have to email them a bunch of links as to what it is that I want. Maybe it isn't a problem, but it bugs me and my mate so we built something that we found useful that we thought could be beneficial to others. thanks!
If you want to store them encrypted, then chrome has to ask your master password every time you want to actually use the stored passwords (i.e., open a random website).
If you don't store them encrypted - then your passwords (as well as everythin else) are available to any random person who has access to your computer for 3 minutes, and not showing them directly is just a minor inconvenience.

Actually, the solution is simple - don't have random persons access your computer for 3 minutes; always locking your screen when leaving is the simple and effective way to counter this risk and many others.
Chrome installs as your own user, not admin. If an attacker can read your disk, he can probably patch chrome to store your master password too.
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it could for example use the system keychain on MacOS and not expose an interface. Chrome could then read the passwords from the keychain, but any user-access to the password would have to go through "keychain access" and require the users logon password to show in plain. Storage would also be encrypted, so it wouldn't be "security through obscurity" but rather a real step towards protected password storage.
I don't. For a while now. And advise the same.
I used Password Gorilla for a long time and it's ok.

But I like KeePassX better. Mostly because Gorilla can be absurdly slow sometimes.
It's an handful amount of lines of code doing a world generation, texture map generation, and ray casting rendering with a few tricks like a simple lightning model that still looks good.

All this using nothing more than a frame buffer, so you could port this easily from a C64 to any other computer. This code contains a lot of knowledge VS use of pre-build APIs.

If a programmer reads this code and understands how every part works, he or she ends knowing a lot more about computer graphics than before.
Mistakes Indie Game Studios Should Avoid
"That happens regardless of capitalization structure."

Analysts, pudits, and others with a keyboard and an IP address have been calling for Ballmer's head for years. In vain, because Ballmer is the second largest shareholder after Gates. Capital structure matters a great deal.