skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The right solution to this problem in general is to not do layout manually in script and instead do declarative layout in CSS. That, of course, requires more powerful CSS features, but those are happening. Several browsers now shipping calc() unprefixed and flexbox is well on its way; those should help a lot between the two of them...
Ask HN: Need physical space for your offshore dev team?
From my own experience, a physical space to work makes all the difference between freelancing and actually working full time. I'd venture to say that if I provide offshore physical space/ office for your team on a per desk basis, you'd probably see an order of magnitude in their productivity.

From expenses, I'd say that a desk with 8 hours of electricity and hi speed wifi would cost around $100 per month. Is it something the community is interested in?

The space I am talking about is in Rwp/Islamabad, Pakistan. But if there is enough interest, other places can be considered and worked upon.
I agree with most of that. Though most services which charge users are disincentivized (is that a word?) to sell user data and display ads.

Besides having the API docs in Github I've never seen how it's much different from other companies that charge users.

Nontheless, I wish them luck because we need more self sustaining services on the web for consumers.
Dart Screencast on Testing
If you get support for the file upload APIs you can ping me as we have considered adding App.net support to OpenPhoto (https://github.com/photo/frontend)
You can have economies without prices as with socialist states.
Your intended meaning was very clear since you used parenthesized qualifiers. IMO any argument on your usage is pedantic at best, but I would have put it as perceived and empirical/actual trustworthiness.
Counting the EMC years, VMWare has been public for more than half its existence. By your assessment, it's been stagnant since before most people even heard of it.
The post includes this statement:

> I want to acknowledge the hard work across the organization, from software engineers to lawyers, to find a way to give back to the open source community and satisfy the concerns of both.

So it seems that this decision was done after careful legal advice was sought. I'd love to hear what the lawyers actually said about this "advisory." Does including an advisory remove liability on the code's creators, much like the "Contents may be hot" advisory removes liability on McDonalds should a customer burn themselves?

I asked a similar question in a comment on another link: if a coder were to open-source an app that could easily be repurposed as, say, a search engine for pirated videos, but they included an "advisory" saying exactly what a derivative work's creator should do to obey the law, is the original coder liable? It would seem that the DNC would say "no," but maybe voting law is different from copyright/piracy law when it comes to liability? But if anything, I'd expect voting law to be even stricter...

I'd hate to see a civil rights lawyer suing the DNC and invoking http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MGM_Studios,_Inc._v._Grokster,_.... as a precedent. "This technology was primarily used for <strikeout>infringing</strikeout> disenfranchising uses."

o_o

(IANAL)
I haven't been banned, but AdSense is incompatible with my preferred mobile framework (jQuery Mobile) without some ugly (and possibly TOS-violating) hacks. Other mobile frameworks are in the same boat.

I'd also be interested in alternatives (ideally, Google would fix the AdSense code so it works, but people have been asking for that for a while).
Open Web Foundation
As far as I can tell, yes. This seems particularly clear in cases where states that have otherwise banned gambling run their own lotteries.
Why not do some competitive programming? That should utilize the algorithms you learned and you could use any/all of the languages you already know (Pascal, C++, Java,C#)

Here are some good sites you might enjoy:

http://www.spoj.com/

http://community.topcoder.com/tc

http://codeforces.com/

http://projecteuler.net/ (Math Focused Problems)
There's also the 'w' as 'r' substitution, which I tend to think of as a speech defect. Prominent among several broadcasters.
can somebody give me an example of where this would be useful?

I was originally thinking it would be good for laying out a page before the images have been downloaded, but this would need to run after document ready, but before images are completely downloaded, which I don't think is really effective.
Henry Blodget flies economy
This marks the end of the grieving for me, to the extent that my mind allows. One of the saddest deaths of someone I didn't know personally. RIP, Aaron.
Can you point to data corroborating your statement that universities are supplying a growing number of STEM graduates?
> I'm also north of 90% probable that I could weaponize it to turn any image tag on the Internet into "roots your local machine"

Definitely not saying you're wrong, but I'm not convinced this is doable. Every exploit I've seen requires a request body -- how would you do that with an IMG tag?
I still think it's amazing that they were able to raise money for themselves on their own platform.
It was an overly subtle joke, took me a while to get it myself.
I always thought that webOS was on par with iOS (iPhone OS at the time). Even on the crappy original Pre, the experience was smooth and fresh with new features. Development was choppy, but the community was thriving.

Mismanagement from Palm in terms of hardware really hindered the growth of the platform.
Crashlytics: Twitter Purchases The iOS App-Crash Reporter
Not sure where you get this idea that one cannot live in San Francisco/Silicon Valley without a six figure salary. Thousands of people live in San Francisco and do not work in tech and surely make much less than six figures while still live relatively well.
Publishing more detailed maps of North Korea
That seems pretty unrealistic. No developed country would use drones to kill people based solely on accusation, forgoing their right to a fair trial.
Easy answer is easy. Revenue is not the same as profit.
Did you enquire further about it. I can probably, with effort, muster 3 distinct USA accents that I'd label Southern, New York and West-Coast - but they'd be based on mass media.

I'd say people can often do several USA accents because they're used to hearing a lot en_US speakers from Hollywood movies.

What always freaks me out a little is when you visit some out of the way place, Gambia say, and they talk in USA accents because they've learnt English either from films or Voice of America.
Someone needs to show these guys Stripe CTF 2.0 Level 8.

https://github.com/stripe-ctf/stripe-ctf-2.0/tree/master/lev...
It's because Chrome is blocking the page from loading resources from an insecure location. Change the https to http and it works fine.
CompJournoStick 0.9.0 Released
It's not really a stretch because they don't want you to use the Internet without using Google. That's why they prompt you to immediately sign into Google with their browser and their mobile OS. Narrowing the argument to only what they do outside of their own properties is missing the point in my opinion because their properties are so vast.

Like I said, I can really only judge them by what I see - but here is my full disclosure - I honestly believe that in all probability...Google is working very closely with at least one despicable intelligence agency (most likely the NSA). I can't prove it, but if I could those agencies just wouldn't be worth their salt. It's certainly not outside the realm of possibility. Far from it.
Respectfully, I think your comment reveals a lack of understanding of the realities of business.

Please think about what you just said.

What is the difference between revenue and profit?

To investors revenue targets are linked to bottom line profits. That's what they are reacting to.
If LinkedIn, the article's whipping boy for bad password storage, had somebody with the brains and capability to purchase and integrate this multi-machine password storage system, LinkedIn would have had somebody with the capability of implementing a secure password hashing system like pbkdf or bcrypt or scrypt and wouldn't need to buy a mega priced security solution from RSA.
Go on a Rails security safari, armed with the knowledge that any YAML parsing is victory, and pay very careful attention to code paths involving Rails/Rack route/parameter processing, especially anything which smells of magic. To clarify: I haven't actually done the work yet.

I'm actually going on a Rails security safari later, though not particularly looking to widen this/these vulnerabilities. I figure I've gotten enough out of the community over the years to contribute part of a workweek and get one more hole plugged.
What was the weakness of chunked storage of passwords?

I thought that an adaptation of something like Shamir's Secret Share could work.
Again, I'd like to say, AXIOM is the most powerful Computer Algebra System. Its powerful, rich, strong and dynamic type system allows using type deduction to "prove" (Curry–Howard correspondence). For example, by its implementation of Risch algorithm, it can prove integrate(sin(cos(x)),x) has no elementary expression. And it can deal with almost any indefinite integral.
try this on other CAS:
integrate(1/(x^3(a+bx)^(1/3)),x)
(there is a lot more...)
No. Having a default search engine is not "selling your search history" and Firefox makes it extremely easy to defeat the Google cookie if that is what you as a user wish to do.
Actually, I was able to just point it directly at an incandescent light bulb. Unfortunately this hack is also going away.
Is there a list of other Twitter acquisitions, and how they've turned out (i.e. product vs. talent, and whether products were kept independent vs. rolled into Twitter)? I haven't really seen much about them as an acquirer vs. Facebook or Google, but that might just be my focus.
"City" I'm in is within 10 miles of the next city and it's quite popular to make fun of each others different accents and propensity for certain dialect.

I do love it when you listen to someone talk and you can hear where they're from; occasionally I can do a Henry Higgins (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_Fair_Lady) and hear the overtones of where they moved on to as well. A strange delight.

The town where I grew up has a couple of dialect words that are only spoken by the working class in the environs. Fascinating stuff.
Can't you just use bcrypt/scrypt and be done with it?
Jailbroken iPhones have a way to reject requests to domains like Flurry. Regular iPhones not so much.
I don't have much experience with other Crash reporting systems for iOS besides Crashlytics, but I will say that overall I have been happy with them. The image you linked to leaves out the actual stack trace, but trust me it's there.

The reason I ended up going with them is that they are 1) The library is tiny and isn't bloated with things I don't need 2) It's integration with Jenkins is great. It automatically uploads my dsym with the correct build number and all crashes from that build get tagged with that build number. 4) Support is fast 5) Love supporting a local Boston company

I will say that some of their design is a little over the top, they certainly love skeuomorphism. One thing that kind of annoys me about their site is that the content is a fixed width. This is frustrating because they add "..." to shorten some labels to fit instead of using all the screen real-estate available.
In the CTF's implementation, the 2nd piece of the password would only be checked if the first one was correct. You could figure out how many different requests were made by correlating TCP sequence numbers. If only 1 request was made, the first piece was incorrect. If 2 requests were made, the 1st piece was correct, but not the second, etc...

The attack was akin to a timing attack (but definitely not a timing attack).
Even if these numbers were profit and not just revenue, it is is very possible for the shares to drop 15 percent. It happens all the time, although usually not at the 15% level.

The reason can be summed up in one word - expectations. If everyone was expecting a profit of around 1.5 billion (shares would have been trading accordingly) and results come in at 1 billion then clearly there is likely to a significant and immediate drop in the share price.
To be honest, rails does seem to be going out of its way to increase its attack surface.
I was at a party with a Chrome security guy (and a Mozilla security guy) a couple days ago and it certainly sounded like 80+% were Google instead of Apple, at least in security.

Also apparently there's a guy at Google who fuzzes Mozilla code using Google servers and collects a lot of Mozilla bounties (like $100k/yr) personally, which is kind of an interesting ethical thing :)
That's really the sad part... technically it's a superior solution to bcrypt/scrypt but the reason why LinkedIn got pwned was because they MD5'd their passwords instead of bcrypt/scrypt.
Oh. Well, in that case it seems to me that the objection to them can't be that they're invasive. We have a well-established principle that says it's okay to take photographs or video of people in public places where there's no expectation of privacy. I'm not sure I see how the fact that this uses non-visible wavelengths removes it from the scope of that principle. Can you explain that?

(I'm sympathetic to your goals here, but I think the tough questions need to be asked. They certainly will be in court.)
> Yeah that's why that whole "job creators" / "we built this" routine doesn't really register with me.

That's 'cause you probably never built a business from scratch. Believe me, not one person who has labored to start, launch and run their own business would make the comment you have. Not ONE.

These kinds of statements only come out of a certain place and this is the same place that confused revenue with profit.

This is also the place that doesn't understand that a company has to have a financial buffer in place in order to survive the many variables in business that hit you each and every day. What do you think happens when you have a bad quarter and you still have to make payroll for a couple of thousand employees? And pay leases, rents, power, insurance and other expenses?

Have you ever had the experience of having to use your personal credit cards to make payroll because you had a bad month? Do that and maybe you'll understand why the comment that doesn't "register" with you "registers" 1000% with those of us who live a different reality.
Is this the Samsung Galaxy S4
According what some rumors are saying this might be the Galaxy S4 which is said to be released on May 2013.
What I Learned from Drinking Beer in Bolivia
The future of enterprise according to Marc Andreessen
edit: updated title spelling error.
All they needed was someone with the intelligence necessary to type:

gem 'devise'

into a textfile.
Bringing SMB Point-of-Sale Systems to the Cloud
While this is a partisan comment, it highlights the political reason why the DNC pursues registration drives. It stands to benefit from doing so. Voters in demographics more likely to support the Democrats are less likely to register and less likely to be engaged.
Do those engineers work in English?
I love this app. I'm currently in NY, and my GF is in Hamburg. She's currently doing a lot of data processing in PostgreSQL and terminal, and with this app it is really easy for me to help her in case she is stuck by simply grabbing her terminal window or SQL console and working there it. It is close to magic.

Also I'll probably use this a lot in another project where me and the other guy doing it are really rarely in the same country. Utilizing this, it is much easier to discuss code, layouts, or even point out a weird behaviour of code by sharing the iOS simulator and going through the process that leads to the bug.

Thanks for this fantastic app, I love it.
I can't tell if you're being sarcastic. If not, you may want to read up on prominent cases like Anwar al-Awlaki's assassination.
Zimbra is one.
I think you mean roots some webserver machine, not the local machine running the browser?
Airmail – A Real Sparrow Alternative?
I have a Samsung Galaxy S3 with AT&T Wireless. I went on their website and found their "Online Chat" support. I told the support person that I needed to unlock my phone so I could use a prepaid SIM while traveling overseas. Three minutes later I had my unlock code, no questions asked.
I mean "This will also let the adversary root your Macbook, Rails developers, if e.g. localhost:3000 is running an unpatched Rails app."

One would think this is strictly less important than "root your server" but that hasn't been true for 100% of Rails developers that I've recently spoken to so, if losing your Macbook is the inducement you need to drop everything you are doing and patch, I will supply that inducement liberally.
I would never use that domain, except as a suitably appropriate throwaway account.
The metric analysis freelancer idea really spoke to me. Anyone with experience in this field have any suggestions for how one might break into this type of work? I'm always drawn to blog posts and the like that deal with metrics analysis but lack much real world experience. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
Genetic Algorithm "coding" in BF
Once I, as a consumer, have purchased a car, I do not care about the regulations on manufacturing. It is my car. I can repaint it. I can remove the logos. I can mess with the engine.

Yes, there are emissions regs in many states. But these are not simply dictated by the vendor of the car, to make me keep buying the car, or paying extra each time I want to drive into a new state. There is at least some reasonable justification (if cell phones belched smoke, they'd be regulated the same way).
Facebook down &darr;?
> No developed country would ... [forego] their right to a fair trial.

My sarcasm detector is returning a superposition of both 0 and 1 with your comment. It must have something to do with the quantanumo uncertainty principle.
oh, yeah, that too. :)
Threshold cryptography might be an interesting approach when you need to keep credentials (vs. hashes of credentials), but I'd probably go with keeping my credentials encrypted under keys stored in a hardware security module (HSM) with rules on access (rate limit, etc.), first. Vastly cheaper (even though HSM prices are generally a form of rape), and simpler.
Can Ubuntu even be considered free anymore? I thought it started bundling ads and stuff in the desktop experience.
No. They're similar because Ubuntu forks (mostly) from debian's unstable branch. After that point they diverge on both points the parent poster mentions.
Facebook is suffering an extended outage affecting many users in the US
What resources have you used to learn clock design?
Neanderthal genome project
Same here. webOS was my first love in mobile computing. Although I've become a huge proponent of iOS, I still think webOS does some things better than any other mobile OS and I believe it had a profound impact on the nascent trajectories of both iOS and Android.

Most of the key webOS team members were actually picked up by Google when Palm was being acquired by HP, most notably UX design guru Matias Duarte. He is to mobile software what Jony Ive is to mobile hardware. He was responsible for Helio's OS, Danger, webOS, and Android Gingerbread and beyond. Plus, you gotta love a guy who's primary goal is "to make people smile."

http://www.linkedin.com/in/matiasduarte
I thought sed was already included somewhere in the unixness underlying OSX?

EDIT: Or tr, even.
Well, to be fair, it is mildly unrealistic they'd target voters. Or at least, their voters.
You might want to try an FF add-on called "User Agent Switcher". Visit panopticlick with that and you can somewhat tailor your fingerprint. Try IE8.
So you're a Linux user who doesn't think "principle" is important? :)
If you are working to build a company in the US, you are building on top of MANY layers of the US infrastructure. Security, transportation, lights, banks, credit are all things in which the American public is invested, in the public interest. And any company of size depends on individuals besides the founder to do its work. It is not accurate to pretend that you are 100%, solely responsible for your own success, without any other contributing factors. And it is not right to decline any social responsibility in the society which has enabled your successes.

Doesn't mean you were guaranteed success. Doesn't mean you didn't have to pay bills or take risks. Doesn't mean you did nothing. Does mean you are not a heroic John Galt pulling himself up by the bootstraps in spite of the rest of society being parasitic.

It was your choice to start a business, don't complain at other people if they have not taken the same risk. They also don't have the business.
I don't think anyone knows that.
CRTC Wireless Code Draft (open for comment until Feb 15)
The Operator: Is the most trusted doctor in America doing more harm than good?
I think a lot of people don't consider the lottery gambling. Gambling is like a lot of vices. People want to do it, but they don't want other people doing it near their homes. Vegas and Indian casinos appear to be the nimby equilibrium point.
What would stop a company from framing any kind of discrimination as an argument from 'market value'

Well, in theory the part where the employee goes somewhere else for a much better rate.

'Market value' does not exclude discrimination if most players in the market are ageist, sexist, or racist

Basically my argument is that in that case it is the job market that is racist; individual employers don't have to be racist to match market rates, even if the market is racist. Or at least that's what I'm mulling over.
The real "suicide impulse" would be to ignore Washington while your competitors run rampant.
There's a show called Geordie Shore, which is the MTV UK's take on Jersey Shore.

Here's an interview with some of it's stars:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fLiVKNuzjE
I don't see how it works as a Trojan horse. I don't think it plays - all the apps using Crashlytics will switch to a different service rather than have their data flow to Twitter. No way Expedia wants their data flowing to Twitter (or anyone else).

Looks to me like a talent acquisition. While Crashlytics was likely popular, I think they likely had limited revenue opportunities given Hockey App and Crittercism.

Really - it's a race to the bottom on these crash services. Switching costs would seem to be pretty low - so my guess is that the VCs saw a quick out.

Congrats to the team for the acquisition.
" I was extremely concerned about the cancer risk and was surprised to come across this in the wikipedia article on sunburn:"

This sounds like you're reading the article incorrectly perhaps? The sunscreen isn't causing DNA damage in and of itself, it prevents one form of severe harm and leaves others intact. Don't go in the sun unclothed if you want to avoid cancer.

"Now I'm left with one more dilemma"

It's not a dilemma. It's always a bad idea to get long exposures of sunlight if you can avoid it.
If I remember correctly they were also not using a salt. They stated that "members whose passwords have not been compromised benefit from the enhanced security we just recently put in place, which includes hashing and salting of our current password databases."[1]

[1] http://blog.linkedin.com/2012/06/06/linkedin-member-password...
Agree wholeheartedly. webOS was solid software begging for hardware to match. It's a testament to how much webOS was loved that users would tolerate using the original Pre. I remember many swapping it out multiple times due to hardware defects. Still have my original one for nostalgia's sake. Cute little phone with an OS to die for.
It's surprising how at face value these stories from MLM and other sham purveyors are taken.