skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Someone else made a browser-based BitTorrent-client, http://hcliff.github.com/ampere/

Which, apparently, is based on this code by piranna.
that is exciting! :)
How do you know "they" are using your account rather than just using your email address as a "from". That used to be the most common way of trying to get SPAM past people's simpler filters.

Might be worth checking what would happen if such an email was rejected from one of those email servers that bothers to send a response back - could explain it all.
There's something strange about those file sizes. If they were a split set, wouldn't they all be the same size except for one?

The only explanation I can think of is the data was `tar`d, then `split`, then compressed (to make the varying sizes), then encrypted, which seems more than a little insane.

The files are Base64 encoded, which means they are considerably larger than their equivalent binary.
Well Google promised to support them then they backed off.
This was made possible through File System API.
http://www.html5rocks.com/en/tutorials/file/filesystem/
Nobody has even come close at finding anything as useful as hydrocarbons. I bid you good luck. If he's < 5 he won't even have the chance as we're past the net energy peak from oil.
That should go without saying though. I think a better way of asking the question is "what's better: a brilliant idea executed so-so or a so-so idea executed brilliantly?"

That to me is a more interesting and logical question.
Google+ is the most thriving dead platform of the web. People keep on calling it an empty playground and it keeps on growing. Man are people going to turncoat on this shit if it finally makes it HUGE some day.
Welcome to the world of impossibilities with WebRTC.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebRTC
"4G" is a meaningless marketing term. The best way to evaluate network quality is to buy the phone, walk around with it and do speed tests for 30 days, and return it if it doesn't meet expectations.

I'm keeping my Verizon Galaxy Nexus for this reason. It may not be the latest and greatest, but it works really well and the data is really fast.
As others have suggested, Cognitive Behavioural Therapy is going to help enormously with this - I have personal experience of it, and it is very good.

Depending on where you are, you may need to wait to get an appointment (I had to wait 4 months to see a CBT worker on the NHS in the UK) so in the meantime, you may want to try this book:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Mindfulness-practical-guide-finding-...

Which is an 8 week course of ways to meditate to practise breaking the negative spirals of thoughts.

My partner and I are currently working though it, and while it can seem like it's talking down to you some of the time (especially if you're a geek like me) you should persevere, as the actual conclusions, practical advice and meditations are very helpful (and have been shown to work in clinical trials.)

Good luck, life gets better than this! :)
Of course not, but it helps when the corrections are contentious. And this is a biography of a living person, which often involves extra drama.

There's already some stuff on the talk page about that, actually.
Just because his WiFi is open doesn't necessarily mean that you'll be able to access his router configuration. And as he says, having an open network means that you have an excuse if someone does use your internet for something illegal...

And it's Schneier.
I bought the cheapest, simplest little laptop I could find at Frys just because I needed an airgapped Windows solution a couple of years back. It was an eMachines (Acer) D620, and I think it cost me about $300. This was almost 4 years ago. It isn't sleek or shiny, but it does run Linux just fine.

I would hope you could find at least that much of a machine for no more than that much money today, and that's new. If you're talking about used, it might be far, far less.

It won't win any races or beauty contests, but it's not supposed to.

What is "web development" to you? To me, that calls for a Linux box running Apache and the basics of being able to edit, build, run, and test code: my text editor, a compiler, the usual libraries, and my build tool. Oh, that and a recent browser, so X11. That's about it.

Your mileage will vary.
I notice that justice.gov is down.
It is not bigotry, you are misinformed. Black people contributing to http://blackcharities.net/ are not bigots, they merely support those whose fate they identify with.
It should be pointed out that the Twitter account "Only Girl in Tech" brought this up again a few days ago.

Which is actually detrimental to the (extremely important) cause that (tongue-in-cheek) Twitter account is supposed to serve. No facts were checked and we end up with a situation where failing AT SOME POINT means you'll be blamed for life. No forgiveness, no progress.
Nope. The leverage was in his lack of reporting it, not the action of hiring a sig' other. The only thing that would serve as leverage would be emotional grief supposing that professional protocol was followed.
Yeah it seems strange to me too, it's possible the server I was downloading from had incomplete files... it seems like Kennedy.Warhead1, Roberts.Warhead1, and Sotomayor.Warhead1 should be 150 MB... those are the file sizes reported by the server though.
I think to be more accurate, you mean to say that since children can't consent, who will consent on their behalf? A freely elected government generally does, since the state protects children in the same way it protects the mentally handicapped.

States don't just define a minimum age of consent. They consent on behalf of children. In that sense, we can compel them to go to school "without their consent," so to speak, because the state is the only institution that can really legitimately claim to consent on their behalf.

The state has stronger claims over children in some cases than their parents do.
Setting Gmail as default mailto link handler in Chrome 24+
Great job Jesse et al.!
Also from an Australian Retailer, Harvey Norman, for ~$490.

Or on a $35 (or more) plan for 2 years. Which will end up being $360 if you subtract the cost of the phone plan.
Swartz was a crackhead and a criminal. It's a good thing he's no longer with us.
I think that picture must be from 1937, as it seems to depict the german and soviet pavilion from the expo (as seen here on wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:La_Tour_Eiffel_en_1937_con...)
Should we work at fixing the root problems which drive children to work? Yes. Should we fire them and let them starve in the mean time? I don't think so.

Most contemporary political philosophers disagree with the "who does it hurt" theory pretty simply: it hurts adults. What factory wouldn't prefer a pliant, cheaper, healthier 16 year old to a demanding, hungrier, ornery adult? There are lots of unemployed adults.
That's actually the only reason i dont care about google+ , the real name policy doesnt only suck its freaking dangerous!!!! cause if facebook goes after your account, so what, you lose some pictures and posts? but you can make a new one and find your friends fast! its bothersome, when google goes after your account, you lose your mail, your documents, your adwords, your adsense, your android.... its a web apocalipse, and for what? for not using your real name? wtf is that! so i dont think avoiding google+ is a question of dislike, more like a preemptive attempt to keep your valuable data safe.
$ curl --head http://www.easyseattleshortsales.com/Roberts.Warhead1 | grep -e "Content-Length"
Content-Length: 23883776

They all return that size or a 404. It's either intended, or they borked the uploads to the compromised servers.
4 is possible.

You run the app locally using foreman, store your local variables in a .env file, and add that to your gitignore.

For your heroku running app, you use the toolbelt to add env variables.

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars#local-setu...

https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/config-vars#setting-up...
The Joy of Code
At the time India gained independence, the British Empire was in shambles, and was financially derelict after World War 2. A strong argument can be made that it was the implicit threat of violence which the UK would be totally unable to handle at the time is what ultimately led to Indian independence.

The situation is not a particularly effective argument that non violent solutions are always preferable, or even possible.
I have, intensely. Yet I came to believe that the root cause (the external situation, real, perceived or otherwise) and the emotional reaction to it (self-doubt, depression, sense of failure) do not need to be intimately connected.

In other words, your emotional health is not contingent upon your external circumstances to a large degree. To wit, a lot of very distinguished persons (as well as celebrities) battle very hard with the exact same feelings that you have. A lot of people in circumstances you might consider worse than yours (oh just watch a couple episodes of dirty jobs on discovery channel) are quite happy. Of course the reverse applies as well, but you can see how in the larger scheme of things, external circumstances do not dictate your emotions.
Graph Search is to Google, what Apple was to Windows
Cheer up, mate. Always look on the bright side of life.

I used to feel like that. To be honest, I still do, sometimes. Most of the time though, I try to broaden my perspective on things. So you're not the industry leader. So you're not the conqueror of worlds.

It.

Doesn't.

Matter.

I make more money than my mother and my father. My mother is a teacher who studied at the university. I think master, but I don't really know. She takes an interest in children with learning disabilities. My father is a metal worker. My mother can't hear for shit because all those children make a lot of noise. My father has heart disease and bad knees.

I, on the other hand, don't have a degree. I have not worked hard to achieve anything in my life really. I code, people give me money. Good money. More money than what is given to honest, hard working people.

I'm not a name, or anyone to care about. Sometimes it feels as if I have conned my way into making a living, because everyone in my family works harder than me. My grandfather is still working as a carpenter to get by. I also think he does it because he likes it. It is what he knows. But still, his knees are busted up, his hip is too. And his back hurts. He's old and should be enjoying his retirement.

The world is unfair. And a fucked up place. My country has a social welfare system. A relatively good one. If you are unable to work, the state will provide for you. Not much, but still enough to get by. No real need to be homeless, yet people still are.

I've visited the US a couple of times for recreational purposes and for work. To me, it seems as if everyone believes that if you work hard and pay your bills, you will go far.

It's not like that.

It's about circumstances. It's about chance. It's about luck.

Sometimes i feel guilt because I receive more money than my family. Sometimes I feel as if I could've done something more with my life.

When I feel like that, I just say 'fuck it'. It is very liberating. Force yourself to think happy thoughts. You will be happy.

The world is still fucked up. People still die of starvation, rape and mass murder in the world, while the people from wealthy families prosper in the west. But the world is not yours to fix.

Just enjoy your time in this world, it will not last forever.
Yeah most likely someone got a hold of your address book and is just spamming your friends, unfortunately dont neet to hack your gmail todo that (there are a tons of ways of getting your address book).

I would say to check the header of your spam e-mail on your friends mail box and see where the e-mail came from, if it was from google you might have some issue (maybe you gave some app or service access to your gmail, or have pop/imap enabled), if its not from gmail then dont stress about it, sooner or later the spam filters will pick up that its not from you ^_^ .oO( yeah dont hold your breath on google helping you on this, they really dont have any support! )
Hummm. I've found that same-origin policy annoying on occasion but always assumed it was there for good reason and that it was important my browser couldn't just open sockets to any old machine.

Was I wrong? Was that not important? Did I go though all that pain for nothing?

Does this WebRTC thing have an on/off switch?
A fully fleshed out and vetted business plan has long left the idea building...
We already have that technology.

It is called capitalism and it has worked wonders in the west (how many people are starving in the UK?). Start by charging whatever the water cost to produce and see the changes that makes.

I keep being surprised by people who hate capitalism so much that they would rather see people starve.
Iran strengthening its cyber capabilities
Xubuntu is also great:

http://xubuntu.org/
Ask Bradley Manning how that whistleblowing thing works out. I think it's important to realise doing things like that, whether ultimately for the good or the bad, comes at a huge personal risk.
That's true, but they are one-upping themselves with every release. I find the packaging of their message this time is very impactful.

Topiary was the genius behind all the LulzSec antics, before him Anon releases lacked creativity. Topiary made anon realize the impact of PR.

Is this video part of some game CGI and they just reproduced it? Or did someone do this from scratch? How much time would it take to do from scratch?
Unfortunately such groups have very little power and are generally looked down on.
There is a lot of hyperbole. And also a lot of ignorance as in your post.

Today on Youtube. I am signed in and wanted to bookmark a video I just saw. I can't do that without them creating a PUBLIC Google Plus account with my FULL NAME even though I am already logged in.

Care to explain that one ?
It's good to know http://xkcd.com/927/ has reached parable status.
Huh? Have you seen how the various .gov sites are being run? Their security is generally pretty pathetic. Most of their security comes from the fact that they will hit you like a ton of bricks if they catch you.
The "Ortiz is someone" quote may have been a paraphrase made as part of a complaint about some comments going too far.

You might also want to mention how many comments urged restraint in response to the most over-the-top attacks. Your sample is definitely not a random sample, but a curated set of some of the most excessive comments.
By that token so is voiding your ballot, but if that were the only form of expression available to you, you might be happy to be able to make even that small squeak. Voiding your ballot (and in the same way, defacing a website) sends a message to your peers and the authorities that you are dissatisfied and that alone can be solidifying. That is one of the purposes of any protest, be it disassociating yourself from an injustice or creating graffiti to propagandize for your cause. It creates, at minimum, an opportunity for a group acknowledgement of that dissatisfaction. However imperfect the expression, it can still contribute to positive change. (I would also, for example, say self-immolation is a terrible waste, but it's damn hard to dismiss. In the same way, Aaron Swartz's death says something timeless, whether he intended it or not, and however regrettable or frustrating or futile or "selfish"...)

Is the sentiment of disapproval here due to one wrong being used against others (which I echo) or fear ("excuse for a crackdown")?
Google can try and force Google+ down the throats of every unsuspecting Gmail or YouTube user. But you know what it isn't an authentic sign up. It is "tricking the user".

And it may work in the short term but it sure as hell won't work in the long term.
He does not regret. He says he agrees with the over all thing.
You really can't take downvotes on Hacker News so seriously. Heck, sometimes a downvote is just someone trying to scroll on their touchscreen and accidentally triggering the oversized hitbox for the downvote button (touchscreen browsers sometimes seem to expand the touchable area that will activate a link beyond the physical pixels occupied by that link).

As for your opinion, consider the possibility that you're overreacting to a few overreactions by emphasizing those comments that went too far and ignoring the ones that showed moderation.
Using a Hangout implies actively using Google+. Just because you don't you use all of its features doesn't mean you aren't using it.
WebRTC is for Real-time communication between browsers. Same-origin policy applies to communication between browser and the server.

http://www.w3.org/TR/webrtc/.

There are ways to turn it off on your browser, but why would you? :). The tech is yours to be used.
There is a very large area between isolationism and having bases abroad and active military interventions.
Ditto for me, only it was to view a public post on Google Plus. Nope.
> It feels very Windows 95 let's integrate the browser into the kernel

It is exactly what Google is doing. Embrace and extend.

I am not sure if it new or not but Google+ posts are appearing a lot more in the knowledge graph part of the search results. But of course in typical Google+ fashion it is almost always some completely irrelevant, helpful and childish meme image.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /

Yep, pretty much everything.
You are problably a misoginistic bully who don't see the human side of things.
I think this is sound advice. I was a long time sufferer of depression, and cognitive behavioral therapy has changed my life in profound ways.

The most important thing I learned from reading "Feeling Good" by David Burns is that it can wreak havoc on you if you tie your self-worth to your successes and failures. It makes you the victim of external circumstances, and who's to say what constitutes a success or a failure in absolute terms anyway? I felt like an utter failure for not having a job and never having released my debut album, and for having dropped out of college four times. I never saw that I was surrounded by friends who adore me because I give them joy and strength through listening and understanding.

I was having severe anxiety when I started doing the cognitive distortion exercises from the book. It's a bit of work, but change sets in immediately, and once habitualized, you don't need to write anything down anymore, or at least not as often.

OP, I hope you'll get better soon.
Next step: invert signal and add them up.
Yes there is, it's just not included in search engines.
There are 2 problems:

A college education exists to teach you how to learn. A programmer who took 30 years to acquire skills that took another 4 years could be wholly inappropriate, especially if you want problems solved in reasonable time. My professors proudly stated that they had forgotten more than they had learned. A college education carries a cognitive component that must also be addressed.

A successful college degree requires persistence, organization, and emotional stability. A critical deficit in these attributes may make somebody incompatible with the modern work environment. It is not hard to imagine someone who bails early or is not sufficiently organized to asses the problem.

tl;dr
Something other than technical skills happened during those 4 years
Gold is always in demand as a luxury item for jewelry and decoration. The fact that it's primarily wanted for luxury and not for practical purposes is actually in its favour - peoples wants are unlimited, whereas their needs are finite. And a metal that's needed for some practical purpose one day, might become obsolete the next.

Aside from that it's ideal for currency because it's fungible (all gold the same, so exchange is easy), portable (small amount is worth a lot, also easy to melt down into smaller lumps), durable (doesn't rust or rot).

It's a virtuous circle whereby its intrinsic physical properties and luxury status make it a good choice for money/currency, which then gives it a new dimension of value as that idea spreads.
> There's really a lot of hyperbole in these discussions.

Not really. Just the other day I was asked for the second time in two months by YouTube if I wanted to use my real name. I almost did accept it, by mistake, after pressing 2 or 3 buttons that had "Yes, I do want to use my real name" pre-highlighted by default.

Don't get me wrong, I think Google builds a lot of other great (that's an understatement) products, YouTube being just one of them. But in the case of G+ they should have declared it "mission accomplished" and move on to other more interesting stuff. And yes, outside of Silicon Valley and a couple of other tech-related areas G+ is a ghost-town.
The site has been dropped from DNS but IP still returns. The mirrors are slow/down, and file keys are the extortion:
http://www.zdnet.com/anonymous-hacks-us-sentencing-commissio...
The header does suggest it came from google.

I also suspected it may be some app or service that I gave access to my contacts to, but I didn't see any in my app access list.

How does one get hold of the address book without hacking into the account or via a third party app that has access?
This entire discussion here reminds me back when GMail touted 30 million users. "It's still a beta", "They'll never get as much users as hotmail or Yahoo! Mail!", "People just signed up to try it!", etc.

Now they're the most used webmail and people aren't disputing it anymore.

Same when they bought YouTube: "Google is going bankrupt, they bought a money drain, game over Google".

On my statistically insignificant level, I do see my contacts (the ones who are both on FB and on G+) post more interesting stuff on G+ and less and less things on FB. The one thing people do still post are vacation brags "Been there, done that, 30 deg Celsius here, must suck to be at home for you guys" and the classic "I hate noodles, now I have diarrhea, life is a bitch" followed by "Like"s and "Be strong mate, you'll be ok soon".

That and people who hardly post anymore because of FB security concerns who then post stuff explaining how to harden FB security settings ; )
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Yeah, I can see that. I don't know about you though, but I've had the feeling that people really are engaging more on Google+ than they were before. And it's a different demographic too, one that I like better. More technical people and more refined discussions. Just my opinion though, nothing about Facebook per se.
It feels very Windows 95 let's integrate the browser in the kernel

Pedantic notice: what you describe actually happened with Win98/2000, not 95.
So Google is counting YouTube users who save videos to their playlist as "active users".

Absolutely disgraceful. I feel sorry for advertisers that are going to be tricked by this.
I've never met an honest pixel — a response to "flat design"
One of my SEO savvy friends was recently telling me that being reshared by high-authority profiles on Google+ is currently one of the best ways to get a massive boost in your google rankings.
I guess there're also a lot of people in the tech industry who would like to see Oracle going out of business. Really, everything they touch seems to instantly get worse. See Java.
And on the server side, Bukkit[1] is pretty much the official API since the team behing the project got hired by Mojang[2].

[1]: http://bukkit.org/

[2]: http://www.mojang.com/2012/02/minecraft-team-strengthened/
Per spec DataChannels should use encryption by default, you must still encrypt all WebSocket or other traffic that goes via your server.
One cannot reason about computers using analogies and expect to come to any useful conclusion.