skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've been lucky enough to have visited NK as well and unsurprisingly everything I read lined up perfectly with my own experience. Most likely tourists from all over the world are always shown the stock tour. Our guides were incredibly insistent that we see everything, too -- that means no suggestions for other activities and definitely no wandering off.

One of my most memorable take-aways was also a visit to a school that we were told was one of the best in the country. We were taken to a room where students had formed groups around several desks, all performing different tasks (one desk had microscopes, the other a pc, yet others had more contraptions, probably for demonstrating mechanical processes). As was mentioned in the story, they weren't actually doing anything, they were just sitting there looking at the machinery in front of them and trying to look like they were about to discover something huge. They must've been the best actors in the school, and probably were very proud of themselves to have been chosen to present to such a prominent audience.
In the next few months we will be migrating a number of servers to EC2. The only reason is to take advantage of latency based routing -- we really really need to reduce latency as far as possible.

Anyway, there's your reason.

The other reason is that big businesses just don't care. Margins are high enough on software that cost of EC2 over another provider is outweighed by the benefit of existing infrastructure, developer experience, and the risk limitation by choosing AWS.
Being unique doesn't make you money
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What's Wrong With Ruby? (2007)
I came here to ask "How much was it?" and here's the answer.. thanks! :) Conferences like CES seem to do very well for a reason and I suspect that's because they work, as you've found. If they can get away with charging $4000 for even such a small space, a lot of companies there must be getting a ton of value out of it :-)
Going from nothing to something at Believe.in.
2012 in review
The issue at hand here is not alternate video codecs, it's the fundamental building blocks of the system (SDP for WebRTC, which Microsoft disagrees with) as well as the core use cases.
Seems like people who care about encryption when using the service are essentially putting their faith in Kim Dotcom's hands. If the FBI, e.g. were to break the encryption, people would probably lose trust in the service. Dotcom is carrying a lot of weight on his shoulders in acting as the security agent.
Regardless of where you stand on Cornyn's politics, it's important that someone with authority is trying to find answers to this situation in a public forum.
If you'd actually spent a few weeks using it, you'd know. Windows 8 is a solid improvement on 7 that requires virtually no change in usage patterns. 99% of the time you're on the same old desktop and the other 1% you hit the windows key and start typing, same as always, only 8's search is about a million times faster than 7's.
It's equally difficult on a small (1366x768) monitor...
Surely you're joking. In the 70's everyone thought computers understanding human speech and talking back in a natural language was just around the corner.

We still haven't gotten there.

Similar for general AI.
I like the web design. But its a wait and see how far they will get along. Any idea where their servers are hosted?
server farm?
The problem is that there's a whole US generation not being brought up in a PC household. You don't think kids of today are gonna make purchasing decisions of tomorrow? That companies are going to be able to sustain a PC-only environment in the face of the fact that the majority of college students are using Mac? That businesses across the board are adopting "BYOD"?

This is what should terrify MSFT - this is absolutely devastating. This is why they have XBox. This is why they attempted the Zune. This is why they have a tablet.

Yes, the business environment is MS' bread-and-butter, but it's going to suffer catastrophic hits over the next 5-10 years as the "Anything-but-Windows" generation grows up. You seriously think that companies will be able to maintain their MS hegemony when the majority of new employees have grown up with a Mac, iOS, and/or Android?

Make no mistake - this is huge, and what will break Microsoft's back. A diversified IT client base breaks Microsoft's stranglehold. You pay a fortune (a definite price premium) for Exchange, Office, SQL Server, Sharepoint, Windows Server, etc. because it gives you labor/cost savings in an all-PC environment.

Once you throw iOS, Mac, Android, etc. devices into the mix, you no longer have that advantages. If I was a CIO or CTO and my business users were complaining that IT is too restrictive, that it's impacting hiring and employee retention - there's no way that a "MS-only" policy is going to stand. If you're a startup or other small/medium sized business - why wouldn't you switch to Google Apps for Mail? Oh, and it includes a lot of other things, too (groups, "office-lite" collaboration; oh and a Chromebook that "just works" within this environment).

Not that MS won't still be a big player in businesses but a lot of the "demand" for MS business apps are propped up by economies of a homogenous environment. Once that starts to unravel, there's no stopping it.

ref
http://macdailynews.com/2012/06/06/gartner-apple-macs-invadi...
http://plzkthxbai.com/blog/2009/09/24/nearly-58-of-college-s...
http://daringfireball.net/linked/2010/08/08/mac-share-colleg...
http://tech.fortune.cnn.com/2010/08/07/big-macs-on-campus/
It looks like debug can be activated in the javascript console: type "d=true", navigate, look at your console.
You weren't paying attention. Cornyn was a judicial system reformer in Texas as both a judge and as AG. Open government and fighting good ol' boy corruption were his beat.
The Segway... is back! Cool product!
On the other hand, isolating an entire people in order to "let the ship sink" sooner and thereby allegedly help them (cf. half-century-old embargo on Cuba) doesn't seem morally sound either. These are tricky issues indeed.
I came across a similar network of fake accounts a while back. This search pulls up about 40 fake accounts:

https://twitter.com/search/realtime?q=Lil+sis+is+up+coughing...

Interestingly, with each search I'd click through to the user account, search for another of the tweets made by the same account, and find yet more unique fake accounts. I started compiling a list, but gave up when it reached a few hundred.
So for those curious - Sophie is Sophie Schmidt, daughter of Google chairman Eric Schmidt (the Eric in the first paragraph).
And embraces flat design apparently :p
From dev docs it looks like file integrity (and thereby duplicate check) is done with CBC-MAC:

"File integrity is verified using chunked CBC-MAC. Chunk sizes start at 128 KB and increase to 1 MB, which is a reasonable balance between space required to store the chunk MACs and the average overhead for integrity-checking partial reads."
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¡El concurso de seorimícuaro está revolucionando internet
Esta palabra ha sido inventada por Carlos Arreola, dueño de un conocido foro de bloggers hispanohablantes con motivo del primer concurso SEO de Forobeta. En el concurso los bloggers tendrán desde el día 1 de enero hasta el día 6 de abril para posicionar su blog, web, post, etc. por la palabra Seomícuaro. Al final de este período de tiempo, la persona que haya logrado posicionar en primera posición su web, podrá ganar hasta un máximo de 3.000 dólares en metálico. Os dejo una imagen en la que se resume el concurso.
I would assume the asymmetric crypto is just for the transfer. In other words you encrypt the data and then send it wrapped in another layer of public/private crypto. Not entirely sure though.
Don't Define Yourself By What You've Done
"but equity-rich (almost infinitely so)"

This is the part about equity that is most likely to bite you in the ass if you receive equity but ultimately do not control the allocation of it. (Common for early employee or founders on the technical side of things).

Day 1: Awesome, I own 10% of this company. If it sells for millions I will make a significant amount of money!

Day 630: Due to the "almost infinite" nature of equity and dilution, I now own 0.05% of the company. If it sells for millions I will be able to buy a cup of coffee!
In order to generate PDF's on the client. I'm sure there are a ton of web services that would love to do this.
It was terrible on my phone
The impression many people have is that MIT has or is getting worse on these types of issues hence why it is a big deal to them.
Not trying to hijack this thread, but I recently spent almost two weeks in the DPRK, and it was one of the most interesting and fascinating trips I ever had.

I took about 5000 photos, and uploaded about 500 of them to my Facebook profile. There's descriptions to many of them. If you're interested, check them out here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151040723772055....

And feel free to ask any questions. I'll recommend visiting their country if you get the chance.
Make it clear up front that you will charge for maintenance work, and if they can't afford it then it's a sad world, but you'll have to move on. You can try be nice and include free bugfixes for issues that are your fault -- this is nearly always a bad idea. You'll end up some some client that will be incredibly insistent that new features are actually bugfixes and all kinds of problems.

Always charge. People will respect you more, and any work you do for them for free will be abused. This is simple human nature - when you give away work for free, all you are creating immense confusion in the recipient. "Why did I get this for free? What's wrong with it? Is this guy so desperate?" This line of reasoning will quickly blossom in your clients mind, and before long your client will expect you to get up at 3am in the morning to add in some new feature he just dreamed up. When you refuse, his expectations of you are shattered and you will be remembered negatively - even when you just gave him free work!

Always charge. The less you need the work, the more your charge. The less you want to do the work, the more you charge. The more difficult the work is, the more you charge. No freebies, unless you make the reason extremely clear up front to prevent any confusion.
This is exactly what I'm talking about.

You're overriding my dyslexic fonts with your inappropriate inline style just like how most developers (Facebook, Reddit, and a whole laundry list of others) fail to observe relative font-sizes or the good-sense settings of the browser[1] .

Now what am I supposed to do? I'm ALREADY using Stylish WITH "!important"; just imagine how systematic this problem is[2]. And yet the only response I typically get whenever I bring up this issue is that some know-it-all thinks I don't know how to customize my browser or whatever else. Or snide comments that such-and-such dyslexic font is "shit" or "ugly." Then I lose all of my street cred when I'm the one being mindful of accessibility (even if it is at the cost of garden variety aesthetic choices in the world of Helvetinauts).

Please, red flag me for irrelevance; I've taken this kind of flack before[3]. But I am getting absolutely sick of this. Stop overriding good design choices with bad ones.

_Why_ are you using inline styles? I'm going to keep shouting this until I get acknowledgment: no more fontwalls[4]!

I was in reading mode, and your poor development practices just ruined that. Now I need a bloody cigarette.

[1]: http://www.w3.org/QA/Tips/font-size

[2]: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/13/opinion/the-reality-of-dys...

[3]: http://www.reddit.com/r/css/comments/15q12g/youre_about_to_s...

[4]: http://webjournal.nerdfiles.net/no-more-fontwalls/
I didn't get to experience it in that way, but I wonder how much of the advantage of being young is legit. It is easiest to get jobs when you're 22, but it's hard to get good jobs and most of your attractiveness seems to be that it's much easier to take advantage of you.
I, of course, can not disagree. Just wanted to add to the voices that point out much in dealing with time in computers depends on your goal.
Do you honestly think that any major artist works with unlicensed, uncleared samples? After "Paul's Boutique", I mean?
Actually, this would be best handled by simple having a display that takes up significantly more than your field of view.
Very confused. :/
Yes, very disorienting. I zig-zagged my way down the page, unsure of where to focus next. Kind of like the Facebook timeline, but without the little ticks to indicate where each section fit in the order.
Well, 8 seems better at managing memory and processor time... completely ignoring the awful Metro UI and the weird driver incompatibilities, that's about the only good change...
"Each file and each folder node uses its own randomly generated 128 bit key. File nodes use the same key for the attribute block and the file data, plus a 64 bit random counter start value and a 64 bit meta MAC to verify the file's integrity."

Not sure I understand this, how can you deduplicate if every file is encrypted via a random key?
It should be the HN logo!
So your argument is, "We cannot afford justice, so injustice is justified."
Another good criteria is have you done something before? Doesn't matter so much if it succeeded or not, but what you're looking for is will you follow through. Someone who has tried and put real effort, past the initial first few months, is likely to at least be worth further investigation. This little criteria removes over 99% of ideas only people
Two of my favorite pieces of "other media:"

This Flickr photostream by "Moravius," who is some sort of humanitarian aid worker in NK. There are lots of photos from outside Pyongyang, which I rarely see elsewhere on the web: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kernbeisser/sets/

The Twitter account of James Dresnok, the last living US defector to North Korea: https://twitter.com/JamesDresnok

There's a great documentary on Dresnok called "Crossing The Line." His Twitter account is one of the weirdest internet artifacts I've discovered: he only posts every 2-3 months, and the first account he followed was a Kim Jong-il parody.
This book: http://www.amazon.ca/Escape-Camp-14-Remarkable-Odyssey/dp/06... is an interesting read about NK's system of gulags. Because they practice generational punishment, there are North Koreans who are born into these camps and die there.
I would go so far as to say that time zones are rarely presentation-level issues. Want to have a meeting every Tuesday at 2:00 New York time? Better make sure you know the New York part or daylight savings will break it. Want to wake up every day at 9:00? If you don't track the zone that preference is set in, you won't get that right when you travel. Time zone isn't a presentation-only thing because people's behavior depends on their time zone.
Everyone knows that it's Daft Punk. Credit isn't needed. What do you want?

"Bigger. Better. Faster. Stronger. Safer. Thanks Daft Punk for all the music!"

Daft Punk sold out by their second album anyway, they're hardly underground geniuses in want of credit now.

Nonetheless, I think it's just more grandiosity and find it irritating that he riffed on the chorus at all.
If a visitor was so willing, is there any possible way of sneaking in any kind of communication equipment that the people there could possibly use? Perhaps a solar powered raspberry pi with wifi and satellite hookup? USB drives full of information that could be dropped off on random doorsteps when nobody was looking? Well trained carrier pigeons to relay messages to the south? Did you see any possible opening for any kind of hacktivist way of helping these people gain access to information?
"Ordinary North Koreans live in a near-total information bubble, without any true frame of reference. "

I always wondered if the North Koreans interviewed really have no idea what is going on or just acting that way out of fear. I highly recommend watching the Vice guide to North Korea to understand what I am talking about.
Well it won't matter. By the time enough people have migrated from the old versions of IE (which will most certainly not support this tech) tablets will be the target market.

Microsoft should really realize it is a has-been and not enter new areas.
Perhaps they de-duplicate using smaller block sizes? Something like 256 bytes.

Also, if you believe Microsoft Outlook, there's something called "compressible encryption", which implies there are encryption schemes that aren't exactly random, meaning in turn that not all N-bit blocks are equally likely.
I never said I was a Chomskyite. Nor did I say it was a bad thing. You are being disingenuous. I was merely supporting the idea of being an issues person, not lionizing any politician on a single stance of theirs. But whatever, you would rather see me and apparently tptacek (although we are not on the same side about a lot of things either, I've gone toe-to-toe with him on this forum before), as enemies rather than people who support an issue you also support. It's actually funny how hypocritical your statement is - you say you're an issues guy, but then demonize people who are saying "yeah support this politician on this issue, but be careful of their stance on other issues, and notice their general behavior in case they do the politician thing and subtly change what they say".

Basically, I have no idea how you can claim to be an issues guy, but attack people for being partisan when they warn people to be cognizant of all issues when supporting a single politician. To build a coalition you need to be careful that side effects of the "pro my issue" people aren't "against my other issues".
I don't run a Twitter follower sales scam. But I've had personal experience with it, and here's why you see this:

Yes, those accounts ARE fake. No doubt about it. And they keep tweeting and re-tweeting each other because part of the requirements on buying Twitter followers is that you want ACTIVE Twitter accounts. Accounts that are doing something on Twitter. So these Twitter bot accounts are fake AND they tweet fake garbage so that the Twitter automation software people run doesn't flag the account as fake or inactive. Thus you have a legitimate fake bot account you can use in your network if you're selling followers.

It doesn't make it ok, but it's the state of things online. Everyone wants followers. They want Facebook fans. They want likes, +1's, and re-tweets, and Web site traffic. All of which can be bought, and quite easily too.
I think it's good their taking the non-SDP route. Hopefully they will be able to help whatever the final standard becomes by deviating from the current WebRTC.

Though I have my share of frustration with the consumer end of Microsoft, I love keeping up with all the research they provide. At least this isn't as drastic as some of their complaints about hardware standards; I think it has a good chance to contribute, and not hinder, what the W3C is doing.
I agree. With a name like Zhou, it sounds like a Chinese guy wants to try to use the code in the wild. I guess one plus for the MintEye captcha is that it's hard to defeat with only Visual Basic.
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help with production process also require arms. Not yet available ;)
At least in the USA, prison rape statistics were not pleasant last time I checked. Nor is the rate of encountering or being around violence and/or intimidation. Not all prisons are as bad as others but non-violent offenders do always get options on where to go.

Most individuals put around constant violence or threat of such are permanently changed, an unpleasant/undesired change. So for may non-violent crimes many would consider prison a cruel punishment. At least with how US prisons are set up.

My understanding is that historically the "unusual" in "cruel and unusual" indicates unusual from everyday reasonable life. Constantly being around violence to an extent it changes the average individual permanently is unusual for every day reasonable life in the USA at least.
your contribution to the regime would be marginal at most - so why bother? shedding some light on this weird country is much more important in my opinion.
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Hrm, I use Spaces and Chrome with no problems. This isn't the case for everyone.
This column is a little over the top in places, but it links to this interesting article on a retired federal judge who is familiar with Ortiz & co. commenting on the case.

http://www.wbur.org/2013/01/16/gertner-criticizes-ortiz-swar...
Why do they call it a prank? My impression is what was nothing of the sort.
The Nitrous Oxide Philosopher (William James)
I went to Burma for two reasons. First, the country isolated from the rest of the world can be an eye-opening experience. If you are, say, North American, and all you go is Western Europe you will never quite learn to appreciate what you have. To me the biggest surprise was how warm, cheerful and hospitable Burmese people are, in a country where poverty is rampant, infrastructure is almost non-existent and freethinking is oppressed.

And the second reason is that you can try to direct your money more to the people than government by staying and eating in small family establishments rather than pricy hotels that are almost always are controlled by the government.
This means that if there's a commonly available plaintext version of a file, then you can encrypt it, compute the hash of the encrypted version and then serve it to Mega along with a DMCA takedown notice.

They wouldn't really want that, would they? So as clever as it is, I doubt they do it this way.
Time to Model All Life on Earth
Going to the beach today in January, woohoo!
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Pero, por otro lado, ha sido también muy importante el aumento de educadores que están más integrados hacia las distintas bases y propuestas del diseño en sus distintas manifestaciones. Ello ha logrado que muchos estudiantes se profesionalicen mucho mejor en materia de estructuras diversas.