skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The first article ignores the decrypt-then-verify timing leak in the TLS CBC modes ("Lucky 13") when it suggests you might just switch back to AES-CBC because BEAST is hard to exploit.

The second article is based on the assumption that you can reliably pad the headers between the request and the cookie in a browser on every vector an attacker has to coerce a browser into making connections. People seem to be thinking about serverside fixes; this is a clientside problem.
I think you're making a moral comparison, not a practical one.
> If you undermine the social contract and rule by fiat, as the EU has in Greece and Cyprus, it leads to extremism, break down of social order, an ever more polarised political situation, and ultimately revolution and/or dictatorship

Mostly unrelated and that kid was really stupid, but just the other day a 20-year old Greek footballer used the Nazi salute after scoring a goal for his team (http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21822165). Like I said, that kid is beyond stupid, but I think it shows that some sort of extremism (right-wing, left-wing) is slowly making its way onto the front scene.
I am glad someone is actually writing about this. We live in an era where we've learned to accept the things around us - No matter how good or bad they are, but we've over the last few decades, started to accept the things that are going around us, and accept compromise, slowly.

News organizations like Techcrunch, Gizmodo, etc. are some of the most arrogant, unethical organizations you will ever find on this planet. I say unethical because of how they work. In the REAL WORLD, journalism works by having REAL journalists, who travel places, meet new people, explore new problems, explore un-identified areas of coverage and report them as news.

But, the internet revolutionized journalism so much that it's so screwed up right now. In the online world, all you need to call yourself a 'journalist' or a 'media organization' is just a hosted Wordrpess blog with a custom domain. And that's just it. The worst part is the content - Where journalism by itself is known for the kind of content it provides, this is totally eliminated. In many ways, an online journalist has not much work to do, when say compared to a real life journalist. The information he wants to report on is RIGHT THERE. Just go to news.google.com, news.ycombinator.com, reddit.com, find some controversial (most cases) topic to write about, add some opinions and publish it as a post. BINGO! Just watch the comments pour in and pageviews explode! And profit!!!

Do you know what is unethical about this setup?

These so called 'journalists' are basically thieves. They 'steal' from an open community like reddit or hackernews, add their own flavors and spin it off into a new article.
I want you to browse through the whole list of articles on Gizmodo and Techcrunch and compare it with the sh*t these organizations write and tell me this is not true. You will easily notice that majority of the content is ripped off from the open communities.

These so called organizations and the idiots calling themselves journalists are a shame to the true essence of Journalism. Because what they are supposed to write about is the news and not what they think of it. I am sick of reading anti-Google posts and pro-Apple (or vice-versa) articles on these shitty so called 'news' sites. I want to read true, unbiased, uncolored content. I want to read the news and not what a random author thinks of the news. And I know someday someone will realize this and create a true 'Wikipedia' for news. And that will be the greatest 'FUCK YOU' sent to these unethical organizations in the history of man kind, ever.
I wouldn't dismiss it so quickly. I dabbled with CoffeeScript for awhile, but didn't enjoy it until I used it full time for a week or two, and now I can't go back to JavaScript. The issues brought up in the article are annoying, but no more so than JavaScript's own annoyances (and in fact CoffeeScript fixes some of JavaScript's annoyances). After a couple weeks of using it you'll know what to watch out for an it will be very pleasant to use.
SourceMap.
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The button doesn't work, does it?
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Thanks!

We'd love to talk to the data.gov.uk guys about working together, though I have no contacts there atm.

We do plan to visualise huge quantities of data, including the datasets you mentioned. Most of what we've been using so far is from the 2011 Census, as well as the Indices of Multiple Deprivation.

Traffic too, we're looking into using the live data from TFL to do some cool stuff.
I depend on Google Voice--so much in fact that my next phone will probably be Android since it handles it natively. Being able to reply to SMS messages from within your browser (or even better, Chrome extension) is just so nice and convenient and solves a major pain point of mine. Also, it's very useful for blocking calls (ladies, where you at?) or for fun, have customized voicemail greetings to specific groups of people or to your girlfriend.
Just the other day I was using the github_api gem to inspect Github repos via a Rake task. The instant I ran it, my screen filled up with the same output over and over. I couldn't kill the ps, and `ps -ef | grep rake` spilled hundreds of lines and never stopped. In a moment my machine was dead.

Turns out the problem was accessing `repo[:fork]`. That wasn't telling me whether the repo was original. (Oddly enough, repo.fork was safe.)
If only I could get my hands on an Occulus Rift. We'd love to do some cool things with it!
Looks great! Go for it. Then go talk to the PHP.net team about their disastrously ugly site, too.
google will disagree with your proposal...
Snipp.IO a pastebin made of haskell, yesod and mongodb
"I asked what a teacher's salary was. $100 per month. So I went to an ATM and bought them a second teacher for the next year."

That's got to feel good.
How do you certify a screenshot?
This post basically says that the guys at Dropbox are idiots and can't disambiguate between PR-driven noise and a real business. News flash: the guys at Dropbox aren't idiots.

The notion that Techcrunch is fueling demand AND reaping rewards on the other side is false. Oh, they may try to prime the pump from time to time, but at most it simply gives visibility to a few startups. In the end, users will drive and dictate the value.

Give the Dropbox guys some credit. And, more to the point, don't give credit to some guys with nothing more than write access to a blog.
After doing a WHOIS and looking at the links in the site looks like an art initiative from a (not so smart, name and phone number are in the WHOIS) Italian guy.
Define integrity? And I'm not trying to be facetious, just curious where the slippery slope begins.
Well, this is more of an example of the syntax. The lambda body might be quite complex.
Fast forward into couple years from now, what they doing today will be investigated by FTC by default and consider a crime punishable by law, regardless of how many pretty words you use to describe this scheme.

Just because its not illegal per se, does not mean its moral, but we human will go to any extent to make a buck (as you know as little as 150 years ago it was legal to own people and abuse them and force to work).

EDIT: had they been publicly traded (thanks ghshephard)
I use it exclusively, and it is perfect for me, mostly. I can text from any of my android devices, or any device with an internet connection almost entirely reliably. Here's the foibles though:

* No extended MMS support AT ALL. This means no pictures, no participating in group messages from iphone users, and most critically, all text messages sent or received over 160 characters aren't automatically concatenated like on the iphone and in the stock android messaging app, but instead chopped up into several 160 character messages.

* Quirky reliability. It's been getting slowly better, but there are small issues occasionally that are pretty rage-inducing. For example, before February of 2012, there was no queuing for SMS messages. If you tried to send a message and it failed, (which happens a lot) too bad, you got to try again. So when they did implement it, (way after the introduction of the product, I might add) it was slow and argumentative as to which messages actually got sent out and when.

* Product support. Lusting after a basic new feature for GV? Having an issue where some messages are duplicated 4 times and sent to everyone in your address book with the same first name as the recipient? (it happened to me. The solution was to name problem contacts things like John1, John2, etc. until an unspecified update fixed it) Just curious about the future of the product? Too bad. You will be lucky to get a minor update a year later which addresses a complementary issue or concern. No amount of support questions, bug reports, emails, or even community outrage will get anything out of Google concerning GV. It took them months to update it to the ICS app standards, and they did so without any warning or response to users who had been begging Google to fix the buggy Gingerbread/Froyo-imbued app since Honeycomb had come out. For some reason Google is hell-bent on being tight lipped on this particular product and none of its users have any idea if it will even continue existing for the foreseeable future. Now that Google has used it to datamine a bunch of voicemails for transcription data, it feels like we're just along for the ride on this product that we rely on every day.
They aren't exactly hiding that:
http://www.artisopensource.net/#team
It's not about moral equivalence, it's about likelihood of action.

He's saying because the banks are structured a certain way, the government behaves differently than they would otherwise. Namely that the government feels it has a right to the goods/property of the citizenry that they did not have before. I disagree, because governments did things like this without the banks.
This can be rendered directly into Chrome by:

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There's always workarounds, especially with what they're doing with search results. Google can live.
The list appears to be missing the great scikitlearn (http://scikit-learn.org/stable/auto_examples/index.html).
Just because the syntax is "modern" doesn't mean it couldn't be better. Why should we give up now and be content with whatever we're stuck with?
I'm more curious who actually buys these as paintings. Because it's kind of like a reverse version of those Who's Who scam's: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Who_scam

And the point there is you're an idiot if you buy a membership to be listed because nobody else is buying it. Except here you'd only pay to be removed if you thoughts thousands of people were buying the "paintings."
Is this satirical? Or are they seriously trying to blackmail people
If you've seen the Lightning-HDMI connector, they're already getting into even smaller things.
> but the real question is: why do you care?

Translate what Google does to the analog world. It might look like this: some guy following you around in every shop, every café you eat. He'll note what you buy, what you talk about, what you don't talk about. He'll read your mail to see what interests you (and your friends!). I hope this will help you answer "the real question".
So many sites use this for various reasons like appending tracking codes (my former employer did this for Omniture tracking).. I just don't see this suggestion to disable the functionality catching on.
I didn't take the Game Theory course but that strikes me as quite easy by coursera standards. Perhaps you're downplaying the difficulty of the videos and multiple choice questions? An hour of video on coursera can take me 3 hours to complete if it's very complex material with many engagement checkpoints (where the video is paused and the student is required to answer a question on the material just presented)
I would love to see how Feedly is, but it's completely broken in Safari. It asks for approval via Google OAuth on every page load, and once it has approval it displays a login page, again.

There seem to be a number of issues surrounding this. Some people point to OAuth being the problem. Some people point to the Safari extension. One way or another, it's broken, and there's absolutely nothing on their Twitter, blog, Uservoice, or Get Satisfaction even indicates they're aware of the cloud of problems surrounding Safari usage.
I hope that country is not Austria (which ran to the the EU like a little girl when shit starting hitting the fan in early 2009, asking for help for Eastern Europe countries so that the latter won't go belly-up, that would have meant Austria going belly-up), the Netherlands or Belgium (both countries with a very high level of private-sector debt, approaching Cyprus, pls see this: https://media.economist.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/2...), to say nothing of France.

The only European country still standing on its feet without any outside help is Germany, but that could end very quickly end once every other country around her begins the slide into depression. For better or worse, we're all in this together.
Have you chosen category? You have to choose one.
Huge improvement, that really looks great. One cool feature you could look into is an interactive terminal like http://www.codecademy.com/ has on their homepage.
Sounds straight up illegal to me
What 'How your company treats exiting staff' says about you
Thanks for suggestion. I am thinking about it.
Check here for an overview of the site redesign by the person who made it happen: http://jessenoller.com/blog/2012/11/28/the-great-python-org-...

Great stuff.
Just some "supplemental reading" for anyone who read your post. :-)
Seems to be similar to the "Remove Your Mugshot" scams that are floating around online.
Your link is broken.[0]

Heres a working one:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Who%27s_Who_scam

[0]: At the time of writing.
Hi everyone! I'm the writer of all those effusive Mailbox articles which supposedly drove up the valuation of Mailbox and helped it to be acquired for the benefit of the folks at CrunchFund. So maybe we should clear a few things up. The Storify version is here: http://storify.com/ryanlawler/techcrunch-pump-n-dump

But let's make a few things clear: I don't have any special relationship with Michael Arrington, MG Siegler, or anyone else who works at CrunchFund. I may see them around socially, in the same way that I see any other investors or entrepreneurs at events where those types of people hang out. But they don't pitch me startups they've invested in, and there's certainly no expectation that I, or anyone else at TechCrunch, be friendly to companies that they've put money into.

I joined Techcrunch more than six months after Arrington was booted, and well after the exodus of employees who worked for him started 'pursuing other interests.' I never worked with him, and besides exchanging pleasantries backstage at TC Disrupt, I frankly don't think he knows who I am. He certainly doesn't whisper secrets in my ear, and I couldn't care less about whether or not his little VC fund is successful.

I first reached out to Mailbox CEO Gentry Underwood in August of last year, because I heard he was working on a cool solution to email overload. (I think I first heard about Mailbox from one of his tweets.) It wasn't until December that I'd gotten a chance to test it out. I think I had it for about a week before I wrote that first article, and I loved it, and still love it. In fact, I have been using it as my default email client ever since I got it.

At the time I worried that the story would be seen as hyperbolic, but I believed in the product and thought more people should know about it. I thought it was an actual useful piece of software that could make people's lives better, so yes, I wrote glowing reviews of it. But at no point did I do so because of any influence from Mike, or CrunchFund, or anyone who had an actual vested interest in seeing Mailbox succeed or profiting from it.

The thing that annoys me about pieces like this are that they vastly overstate the influence that CrunchFund or any other VC have in our coverage. Yes, they frequently clue us in to cool applications they're playing with, but there's no real exchanging of favors that happens. I write about products I like, usually pass on those that don't interest me, but if there's the case where I test something out and it doesn't pass muster, I usually say so.

One final note: The most recent article I wrote was about Uber, which is also a CrunchFund company. That one was not nearly as positive as the stuff I wrote about Mailbox. http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/15/see-uber-this-is-what-happe...
Apparently my ISP blocked that website for some reason. Corbina, RUS.
Nice haircuts.
How Self-Driving Cars Could Reshape Our Cities
>" in a way that is insulting to Dropbox, TechCrunch/AOL, CrunchFund, and the Mailbox/Orchestra team"

Arrington is a jerk and MG is a talentless shill. They're both "right place, right time" guys who strut around with undeserved influence. I care little about insulting Techcrunch/AOL or Crunchfund.

When banks do things like this, we call for heads. When it's SV personalities, we're apologists.

>"Arrington left TechCrunch because of his desire to return to investing about a year ago"

You say left, I say forced out, because there was an obvious conflict of interest.

>" Probably more important is that the Mailbox/Orchestra team is top notch at making incredible mobile products"

That's nice. I suppose we'll agree to disagree that a company that built an app that sits on gmail is worth $100MM.
Great work!
Some thoughts from a purely personal perspective, take them as you will:

- I often refer non-programmers to python.org when they ask what that "Python" thing I do all day is. If this is a significant portion of your traffic, I might move the "Python is a programming language..." bit higher up the page.

- "Integrate systems more effectively" doesn't mean much to me, but if the landing page is a tool for devs to convince their managers to let them use the language, could make sense.

- I don't love calling the list 'l' given that many beginners wind up here. It can look like a "1" to those not used to monospace, and is confusing. Come to think of it, the whole beginning example would be very obtuse to anyone not familiar with programming at all: one of the things I love about Python is that it's easy to introduce to a total beginner, with something like "it's like learning French or Italian, not a bunch of random symbols".

- I personally love the way you do the main dropdowns.

- The topbar is nice too, but a bit less noticeable to me than maybe it should be. I think some tooltip-provided explanation (or similar) of PyPi, saying "Package Index", might help those new to Python but aware of what a package index is. This might be unnecessary though.

- The location (and naming) of the "Socialize" link doesn't make much sense to me. What does it have to do with Search? Also unsure why there's the font +/- link there; do you often hear that browser settings are insufficient?

I'm exited to see what I think is a terrific update to the beloved Python homepage. Best of luck!
Oh, you can easily do both.

Two ways:

1) you have no conscience. Which also helps you to get into the higher ranks of the company (back stabbing, bullshiting, taking credit for others et al). That puts the right people in position to both maximise profit AND sleep well (because they just don't care).

2) You just do your tiny part, it's the whole company that does the bad. You merely "follow orders" or "do what you have to do". So you sleep well. Like those guards at concentration camps slept well and were perfectly normal people (see "The Banality of Evil".

That's how, say, Coca Cola, a perfectly legit company, with people wearing $10,000 dollar suits and smiles, nice, agreeable people, employs thugs to kill workers in Latin American plants when they demand better pay. And they can keep a straight face doing so, because the actual bad doing is happening down the chain and abroad. They just demanded "efficiency" and "stop the problem" that's all. They never said how exactly.

http://killercoke.org/
I don't think the parent is saying there's not value in that wait list. I think he's saying that Dropbox probably valued the team, Mailbox's standalone potential, and potential synergies more than just the "marketing list".
Looks like "art" that want you to think about your online privacy
These guys are going to be sued out of business, or worse..
Why would you store your session key with this? It's not meant for first-party domains.
I am sure there were good reasons for the the purchase that we cannot know due to not being part of dropbox management. The article is insulting towards dropbox, but I think the summation of the article is in the headline, "pump n dump", and no matter what people say the media has an unquantifiable effect on creating hype, and inflating value of anything, person,brand,etc in general. And do the mentioned relations matter in such deals happening as the article mentions - without a doubt. So perhaps, the article is a bit hostile and the top response on this thread points out many sources and is a good defensive response, the main point of the article is something that happens often, this deal or another deal - its reality.
A better title would be 'How pathetic tech reporting has become'
Websites don't need to use this, that's my point. Whilst it looks nicer to use it, it's not worth opening a easy door for fraudsters.
It doesn’t appear to work in Opera version 12.14, I get sent to PayPal :)
God Damn It, Google
The Barely Viable Product
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OrganicJS, reusable JS+HTML+SVG components in 
OrganicJS is a micro-framework for reusable JS+HTML+SVG components. It is also a set of
framework facets that enable more powerful and more maintainable component architecture for
D3.js, the popular JS+HTML+SVG visualization library.

OrganicJS supports reusable components with chainable properties and public methods, dynamic
setters/getters, reusable widget markup using nestable HTML/SVG fragments and in-place fragment cloning and rendering, and sharing of data/behavior among components in a soft, decoupled
manner via contextual component caching.
OrganicJS re-envisions, re-implements and supersedes my earlier ideas around using D3, which can be seen here (while link is up, works on Chrome only)

One of the ideas is the support for borrowing of data/behavior of one component by another component in non-hardwired manner without use of events. Another idea is the building of “widgets” (collection of components) from reusable, nestable HTML+SVG fragments, as an alternative to the way it is done in D3 (although the framework can still be used in the D3 way without the reusable widget markup.)

Demo:
http://idibidiart.github.com/organicjs/
Features Overview:
https://github.com/idibidiart/organicjs/blob/master/README.md
Repo:
https://github.com/idibidiart/organicjs
I certainly like the frontpage look, a lot more up to date than the current site. I tend to prefer less weight in the header on inner pages. While it is nice and prominent, it does push the stuff that returning users will be interested in further down the page. I really liked the popups on the main nav.