skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even though I am not particularly interested in interfering with how the politicians and their servants are taking the general populace for a ride -- since they may have indeed asked for it -- the politicians and their servants should know their limits and they should know when to stop. If we do not show the courage and the good sense to retaliate, they will simply extend their intolerable excesses over our profession too.
I was looking at FitBit but am really not interested in uploading any data. Is it possible to use the FitBit desktop app without permitting it to upload? Would it cache everything locally and function normally or does it require access to be usable at all?
As a Scala developer I'm obviously biased, but I would add "try out scala" to this list.

Why? Because learning new programming paradigms is beneficial whether you stick with them or not. And Scala is easier for a Java developer to start with than Lisp or Haskell or Z or anything so foreign.

It is simple to get into because you can start basically like "java without semicolons", and IntelliJ community edition has excellent Scala support.
If anyone still needs convincing these CDN'd JS lib are a bad design pattern, check out this presentation from 2012's Black Hat (and also DEFCON) on MITM attacks on them that persist after the user has been exposed (due to indefinite caching of poisoned JS files).

http://media.blackhat.com/bh-us-12/Briefings/Alonso/BH_US_12..., or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCNZJ_7f0Hk (quite entertaining presentation)

the tl:dr is users browse a short time via an anonymous proxy (c'mon, many do), the proxy MITM's these CDN's JS lib requests and serves up poisoned versions that work but also check a mothership server to load in further poisoned + persistently cached JS files for popular websites (banking, facebook, etc). User then ends their proxy session but future visits (even direct, not via proxy) to sites loads in the now cached poisoned JS libs. Phishing, credential theft, clipboard theft, etc is all now possible
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He's not saying it's bad -- he's saying that the color scheme is reminiscent of the old joke "What's black and white and red all over" ("A newspaper" as in "re[a]d all over")

The joke also applies to ebooks if you do well, so could be a very appropriate one.
AutoLayout (new in iOS 6 and OS X 10.7) is decidedly OK to use in code or in IB.
Perhaps this is related to the decriminalization of marijuana in some states at that time.

I welcome this news. We have far too many prisoners; any reduction in the incarceration rate is a good thing, and we have a long way to go.
...actually NASA proved that kind of friction to be very severe:
http://articles.cnn.com/1999-09-30/tech/9909_30_mars.metric_...

Just think that it also could have affected people...
... and are prone to human error. While you could do manual tests before every check-in, this is prone to error to the point that I would not trust it. For any a project of any significant size such a thing would inevitably lead either to steps being missed or the entire thing being skipped altogether.
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I totally agree.

I have an article about how to try to pack that in a brief email: http://www.ashmaurya.com/2012/08/cold-emailing/

Sometimes, though, you are better off making a call.
http://blog.asmartbear.com/cold-calling.html
Ah, found the answer in the product manual:

"The Tracker will upload your data every 15 minutes provided you are within range of any plugged in base station (about 15 feet for direct line of sight), the computer is on and not in sleep or hibernate mode, the software is installed and running, and you have an active internet connection."

This implies to me that the data isn't cached locally outside of the Tracker itself, if an internet connection is not available.
yep. ideally i would get some passive income from somewhere but if not, then yea, i think i could do it. Mostly i want to know if its possible before i attempt it.
Actually, for where I live I'm pretty median by income.
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I've got an ASUS laptop running windows 8, I can say I'm looking forward to forgetting this dumb touchy trackpad and replacing it with a leap. (I may even try and remove the trackpad, hollowing out the space for a leap. If I feel brave :) )

Edit: Oh and yes feature set is important, but I find that just about all mid range to high end laptops have everything I want (USB 3.0, Webcam for programming stuff, 1080p screen (I chose my ASUS over a Samsung because it has excellent speakers and a sub woofer bullet. [both of which blast out beautiful sound.])
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Reddit --> 9Gag --> Facebook c/o Reddit's CEO --> Reddit -> Hacker News

Does this cycle end?
Much as I dislike Garmin's lack of support for Linux, I have to second this. My Forerunner 405, eTrex Vista and Vista HCx all download to my computer, with the option (not forced) of uploading. I have full access to .GPX files that I can use with any number of pieces of software (including Google Earth and Maps). Also, I've been pretty happy with the Zephyr HxM hooked up to my N900, and the wife has a Zephyr as well that works well with a Samsung Galaxy III and Google tracks.
I think the app store is a good idea for the business and consumers. They need a place where everyone knows leap apps can be found to help drive the consumer adoption. Now, the implementation and/or restrictions is the make or break. There isn't any reason that they couldn't make your example feasible.
This was what I was going to suggest also... but...

Whatever happened to using progressive enhancement techniques which meant the site would continue to work, albeit with basic functionality, for users even without JavaScript?

I understand for some sites this is not possible, but for a lot of sites it would be perfectly acceptable...
So you think it would serve you as a backup when you really need it?
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im almost 21. The aid is certainly an option if i qualify as in need. So your saying that the value is how much you learn and get out of it, not so much the value the paper will give you into jobs?
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> The U.S is still the best place to be, if you are in tech and few other sectors

Are there any other places that come close and that are more free or at least less corrupt?

Can someone comment on tech salaries in Hong Kong, for example?
Excellent idea. Looks like it was co-designed by Kim Jong Un and the Taliban.
But, if you are forced to name alphabetically you might start naming those related instance variables in a related way (which wouldn't necessarily be bad). For example in your case you might have: myFileBuffer and myFileBufferLength which would hopefully be next to each other, no?
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I'm new to Linux and I really want to learn more about bash so I created a small blog for experimentation.

Feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes.
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> What was the matter with PDF?

In a word, reflow.
Yep, but even if you have a closed-source project you should avoid checking in any secret keys or other credentials to your source control system.
I imagine the handling of earthworms does not scale particularly well considering the huge amounts of cadmium telluride we'd need (if this ever becomes an actual drug, which probably won't happen). Ideally, we'd find a way to manufacture those enzymes synthetically or at least industrially by means of transgenic bacteria.
Don't use unescape, is ugly and is not required if you break the close tag of "script".

this.jQuery||document.write('<script src="js/jquery-1.8.3.min.js"></sc'+'ript>')
Maybe with an engineering degree. If you are a politics or film studies major, you might get $45,000 (in a major metropolitan area) if you are not fussy about the job you take.
I'm new to Linux and I really want to learn more about bash so I created a small blog for experimentation.

Feel free to correct me if I made any mistakes.
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Yeah. I'll post SHA hashes in a bit.
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How often does your average user browse via an anonymous proxy? I doubt most would even know what the hell you are talking about. I can understand for your more clued up or power user, but you give the average user too much credit.
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Is selling gambling software illegal in the state though?

It might seem like a pedantic question, but laws can be very narrow in scope or vague in meaning. "Gambling" and "Selling gambling software" are legally two different things.
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“Engineers shouldn't think about design.”

In my experience engineers who think a little bit about design work better with designers than those who don’t.
I've known successful software companies with no websites, yet alone bare websites. Sometimes it works better to focus purely on building relationships and not to waste time on hoping potential customers will find you online.
What about Kerbal Space Program?

(http://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLD603D8234AE51EF0)
Civil law / inquisitorial lawsuits are significantly cheaper, and legal costs are way cheaper outside the U.S.

The U.S. has the most lawyers in the world (it used to have more lawyers than the rest of the world COMBINED), the most expensive legal system, and the most lawsuits in the world. There are significant movements (including the U.S. Chamber of Commerce) for legal reform, and several studies stating those facts:

http://www.uschamber.com/legalreform

"America’s civil justice system is the world’s most expensive, with a direct cost in 2009 of $248.1 billion, or 1.74% of the U.S. GDP.

The tort cost per person was $808 in 2009, a sevenfold increase from 1950 when adjusted for inflation."

http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/how-much-are-frivolous-lawsu...

http://www.towerswatson.com/assets/pdf/3424/Towers-Watson-To...

Spain, for example, offers free legal assistance for lawsuits over 900 euros (link below in english).

http://www.mjusticia.gob.es/cs/Satellite/en/1200666550200/Tr...

The average cost per lawsuit in the European Union (in legal fees, etc) is 3.000 euros (Madrid Mediators Association figure). A "standard" lawsuit costs about 10.000 euros (an example for suing a doctor for malpractice).

For comparison, in the U.S., "Ongoing expenses to prepare and mount a medical malpractice case average around $20,000 -$50,000, but in complicated situations it can be $50,000 -$100,000 "

http://personalfinance.costhelper.com/medical-malpractice-la...
Yes, that's a great point. Although that test runs on our search pages, so 0.46% of that traffic is about 4,000 registrations. And the difference between 0.46% and 0.42% is about 300 registrations.
I prefer to pay cash, and let companies do their own marketing research, thanks.
I fail to see what exactly is different from the other emails filling up my junk mail folder? They are also few lines long, sent from a person unknown to me, refer to my site(s) and contain links to external sites that have suggestions for optimizations. Many of them refer to me with my name, either taken from whois info or from the site.
This is the first time I have heard any complaints about the acronym. Not that I particularly like it myself, but I don't think it's a big deal. The world does not revolve around NYC.
Felt like I just jumped in the way back machine for this one. I was actually hoping for a hardware update or additional news - there is not.
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>He sold gambling software while living in a state where gambling was illegal.

Jack Daniels Whiskey is made and sold by a distillery in a county where selling liquor is illegal.
> bringing through this transition in the workplace

God I hope not. I hope that we can as a society, move beyond the idea that if it doesn't have an application in the workplace or if you can't make money from it, it is not worth while. There is no real difference to asking for more grunt work and spending your free time to be able to do different grunt work for someone else somewhere down the line.

I do Udacity and Coursera courses for my self, for my own benefit. I'm a system administrator. I do programming courses for fun, I'm doing Introduction to Astronomy for fun. The astronomy won't help in my job, ever. The vast majority of the programming ones, though tangentially related to my job, by and large won't help there either. It doesn't matter, I didn't do them to be a better worker. I did them to enrich myself.

Work, your job, is something you do to enable you to enjoy life. Don't make it your life.
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True, but you can get reflow with a better format than whatever the Kindle is using. ePub comes to mind.
I can confirm that @charliesome has found a loop-hole in Rails' parameters processing that makes it possible to do some really nasty stuff. I also know that other have discovered the same bug independently. I don't think anything has leaked to the public yet.

Based on Charlie's PoC I managed to sneak a SQL-injection into some really basic ActiveRecord queries. It's not entirely obvious how to accomplish this, but it wouldn't surprise me if other people who discovered the same bug will find similar exploits.

This has been reported to Rails' security team and I expect patches to be released pretty soon.

For now I don't have an easy-to-apply workaround that doesn't disclose the gist of the exploit.
If you do overall page loading times, I wonder what sort of averages you will see comparing this to hosting it locally for all requests.

When hosted locally it would result in 1 less DNS lookup, as well it could reuse an open HTTP connection to fetch the resource.
The problem is if you're using 3rd party libs, especially if the 3rd party code is coming from developers with the philosophy that ASI is a good thing and intentionally leave out the semi-colons from their code. Adding the semi-colon to the code you control is safe and doesn't hurt anything.
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I did not see that she had a whole lot of other opportunities, so the opportunity cost is hard to quantify, would she feel happier just closing the business and going and getting another job, maybe but it did not sound like she was ready to do that.
A friend of mine works for a large private investment firm. He runs their very large Oracle databases. The webpage is a picture of a sailboat with the only text being the postal and email addresses to their various offices. That is their entire web presence.

Most non-web companies don't have a large web presence. Nothing weird about that.
Testing has taught me that successful email marketing depends on one thing. The message subject. The message body can be a link, image, wall of text, or even empty.

Writing a good message subject is like writing a good headline. Though there are some differences between mediums. Allow me to share some with you.

Email is personal. Your message subject has to feel (and read) like a one-to-one message. There are various ways to achieve this. One is to use a simple to when writing it. Instead of being overly logical, just break down the message into simple words. Example:

Logical
$product name will help you save $500 a year
on office supplies.

(The above is an actual headline I got from a serious company)

Personal
I'm a business costs consultant. My job is to help you reduce operating overhead. I have some pointers to share with you.

I actually tested both headlines. The personal achieved a response rate of around 3.5% ( slightly above average ). The logical had a response rate of 0%, unless we count the emails calling me names for spamming them. All were cold emails from account randomnly selected from the web.

Two. You should not adhere to any specific message subject length. Some ideas are better conveyed through 2-3 sentences. Others with one word. It all depends. Always test. Don't trash an idea beause of the length. Test it!

Three is simple. Include a phone number, email address, URL on the message subject. Not long ago, I did an email campaign for a client. The message body was empty, but it had a very powerful message subject:

I sell a system that helps you get more sales leads. 555-555-1234 - John.

All cold emails. Response was very good, and it helped my client sell over 10K worth of products.

But wait. Let me explain how it worked. When people saw the message they had two options. Either call John, or reply. Few ignored it. Why? Because of one simple human trait: We feel obligated to reply when we humanize messages. We would not want to upset John by not calling! He would be disappointed!
People called, and/or replied to schedule a call.

Hope you can benefit from this. I'm writing a book that shows how to write good copy. Keep posted, it should launch soon. If you are curious (or want to hire me), just shoot me an email (check profile).
What a long list of reasons I don't want to live in San Francisco!
I believe that the comparison is fair because "he's simply making a tool that's been using for the purpose it wasn't sold for".

All the tools in the comparison are used in a manner that was not intended by the creator. The point is that it is unfair to charge the creator for the misuse of the tool. The problem is that in our society some "legal-oriented" people think of themselves as very smart because they believe to have attacked the root of the problem; this is under the rationale of "if we eliminate the source, we eliminate all its misuse" (as a side bar, the same rationale is used by the entertainment industry). The problem with this rational is that it destroy the good uses of the tool. And it has a double domino effect, one of chilling some creators (in this case some developers), and one of the thrill of the power on legally hurting someone (I got him! how smart and powerful I am).

In reality it hurts the very thing that they claim to defend: the land of the free.
With how rocky the launches for all their Windows Phone devices have been, I find myself wondering if Nokia might have done better sticking with MeeGo. Though I've admittedly never tried using it; it just seems like it got a warmer reaction than most other smartphone OSes do. Kind of like WebOS, really. . .

At the very least I'd like to see them bring out the hardware again but with WP8 instead of MeeGo. I find myself strangely attracted to Windows Phone as an operating system. That attraction is pretty summarily destroyed, though, by the thought of living with one of the hippos dressed as handsets that are sold running it in my pocket all the time. By contrast, if I remember right the N9 was about the size of an iPhone. Maybe even a little bit smaller.
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Yes, also document.write('\x3Cscript>\x3C/script>'). But these are beside the point.
I'd venture to say that it takes much more then just details to separate an amateur from a master. Knowledge of theory, an eye for errors big and small, etc. Maybe the details separate the good from the best?
I don't think so. I don't want to listen to a person saying "uh" every other word.
A lot like his post yesterday, this is really more content-lite self-branding from DHH. I get it--you ain't gonna need it. Yeah, yeah--you're opinionated. Cool.
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I don't know about any of the more modern Kindles (or equivalent) but my girl friend's Kindle can't handle PDFs very well either. She reads a lot of scientific journals, which seem to usually be written in columns, and the Kindle gives you the option of either seeing the left column and the left half of the right one, or just the right hand half of the right.
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How on earth is the article smug? The author responded to the controversy with clear and concise examples demonstrating that the issue is relatively minor and very easy to address if you think you are susceptible. Additionally, most people seem to be using Devise over Authlogic now-a-days. Not saying it's ok to have bugs surfaced in less popular gems, but this thing isn't going to bring the internet down.
Respectfully, what do I care what the author thinks of this vulnerability? Even if they had found the SQLI condition originally (they didn't), that wouldn't mean they fully understood the exposure.
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This ruling by the judge is disastrous. Do you have any idea how many Amazon Appstore apps I had purchased from my iPhone before I figured out the difference? I wasted sooooooo much money. None of them will even run on iOS!
Mooks aren't so bad, but those Scalding Coffee Cups will fuck up your shit, especially because you have to fight them without Paula.
Every time they use a public wifi hotspot. Any time you use a network you don't control and where you have no reason to trust the admin, you may as well be using a proxy.

The requirement to trust the admin isn't about the admin MITMing you, but rather trusting their competency in preventing other users MITMing you. Of course the admin could be bad as well.