skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
He says advertising is dying, but Google makes most of its money from advertising and they're doing well.
ChronoTrack is hiring a backend software engineer (must live in the US)
Forgive my ignorance but can I get a clarification on what specific parts of the bill will be damaging to privacy? From what I've read so far of the bill it will permit government organizations with classified intelligence about a possible threat to tell those that might be attacked without going through a lengthy declassification process. While that is certainly valuable, I gather there are other provisions that allow for sharing of user data without consent by those under threat?

EDIT: Seeing now that the measure does not require participants to remove user data, but it doesn't prohibit that, correct?

EDIT2: The CISPA Myths vs. Facts and the EFF articles are informative. Regardless, I think it is important to note that because of classification this information may not have been able to be communicated to organizations prior to something like this bill being in place. I would highly recommend encapsulating each constructive measure in its own bill (and I favor that for all legislative endeavors) however that may not work given the difficulty of the process these days.
The evolution of discussion around the Boston Marathon events
ChronoTrack is hiring a DevOps engineer (must live in the US)
I think they did a pretty good job of controlling for all variables other than the hyphen. What else could it be?
Ask HN: Is there a helpful write up of the latest dev stacks with pros & cons?
I'm looking for a non-developer write up or post of the current technology stacks being used and descriptions of using certain languages/libraries over others. It's hard to read and try to understand from a non-developer point of view. Any good articles?
More to the point, nicer clothes typically end up getting tailored before being worn anyway.
That is exactly what DNSCurve does, and is something DNSSEC does not do.
I generally agree.

For everything done right with G+ there's something else which I'd say is plainly wrong or a huge oversight.

For example, Communities do a good job of facilitating limited sharing beyond your circles but they were implemented without support for posting from mobile and no option to prevent public community posts from being included in your public stream.

Both of those things have since been fixed, but I think it speaks to the same thing we're seeing here - Incomplete or outright lacking features that hurt obvious, compelling uses of the platform. Tom there is running a blog on G+ despite the lack of basic functions for formatting, linking and categorizing posts.
It is not possible to infer anything from such a low sample population (45). For statistically significant results, you would need to spend on the order of $1,000 not $100.
I don't even know when the last time this has happened but it has probably been a very very long time. This isn't a common occurrence but something that has only happened maybe a few times when an exploit was found. EVE encourages clever use of game mechanics to do devious things and they have just clarified they don't consider escaping Concord clever use of game mechanics but an exploit. If someone actually finds a way to bypass Concord they fix it and don't leave it in the game.
Because, as I said, they have users using the app. They have said "we will not sell this app anymore", but they typically do not extend that to "we will no longer support existing customers for this product" (and even less so to "we will take this app away from those customers who downloaded/bought it")
Obviously this is bad for those of us in the USA, but can someone explain how this will affect the rest of the world? And is there anything that those of us outside the US can do to try and defeat this, other than spread the word?
To be fair, the majority of YEA's come from Republicans, who control the House, and the majority of NAY's come from Democrats, who control the Senate. This has already died in the Senate once, so I wouldn't be surprised if that happens again.
I live in the Netherlands, can anyone tell me what this law is about and why it is damaging to the internet?
This is spot on. The reality is that most people responsible for buying web design services do not have a need or desire to understand the technical details that you are being hired to handle. They only need to be made comfortable that you understand the technology and the business problem that they need solved. Every once in a while you'll run into someone that has heard some specific tech terms of which they have no understanding but insist on using, but those people will make themselves readily apparent to you, at which point you can whip out all the tech talk you wish.
Wordpress Blog: $25/month (assume premium hosting, some common plugins and templates)

Enterprise Content Management System: $250,000....

Same basic CRUD application about 80% of the time :)
Okay, this is seriously THE use-case for Google+ Circles. I hate to boost G+, but it's basically perfect for the problem you describe.
So the obvious question is where is that money going?

How much are they paying the developers and designers?
You don't have any understanding of his mind. You are dismissive and rude. Your response is what the community needs less of, not _why.
Yeah, poor wording on my part. They do have a name, but normally you don't care about it.
> Thinking back, purely by accident, the longest-lasting and most successful business relationships I've gained have been the ones where the client and I discussed their business first (and upcoming business needs!) more than the ins-and-outs of the technology itself.

Yup.

If you bring up the technology, the conversation becomes a matter of the client figuring out whether or not you're good enough at the technology to do the job.

That's the wrong conversation. The right one is about what value you can provide to the client, and you simply exude the competence necessary to make your own technology choice.

It's a little different if you are a representative for that technology, because you're selling the tech rather than yourself.
If you use a broken library then you're in trouble no matter what MAC wizardry you layer on top of it. You've got a core issue that is a better place to spend time solving that coming up with some sort of MAC layer to add on top.
Nit-picking: It looks like the edge insets on the navigation bar buttons aren't quite set correctly.

Great work though!
My name is Jon, and I’m a member of the DynamoDB team. To your specific question about consistency guarantees, local secondary indexes support both strong and eventual consistency. The indexes are updated automatically when the primary index is updated.

For more information, have a look at our FAQ guide and Developer Guides.

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Now get to third base online [Practical uses for the Internet]
You should call them and let them know that you plan on voting against them, irregardless of their party affiliation, the next round of elections.
Kind of late now, huh?

The "Cat Signal" was activated prior to this debacle as a means to urge netizens to contact their elected representatives and garner opposition to CISPA.

My elected representative voted no.
Thank you Tulsi!
Do you use any sites in America? Do you access any sites hosted outside of America but accessed via any network infrastructure owned by an American company?

If so, any of this information can be easily shared with the US Government free of charge to you!
ACLU: Carriers leave consumers exposed by withholding Android updates
Someone can do the math but I expect a 64 character long random string is more than sufficient.
I don't think that is the correct Youtube link. The o is clearly lowercase. It seems the original video is not presently viewable.
The Sheryl Sandberg App/Plugin Contest
LOL! Long over due.
There is a very real possibility that hyphenated domains have a negative impact on scoring with Google because historically hyphenated domains have been spammy (vs. un-hyphenated domains) - and Google has picked up on this correlation.
Google Trends: Javascript Frameworks
The Default Narrative
Weren't they supposed to activate the "Cat Signal" that would go up on everyone's favorite websites? I never saw it, and that seems like it would have been the only thing that could have re-invigorated people to action like they were for SOPA and such.
Show HN: ATable - Interactive Javascript table component
Excellent insights on running a high availability operation, one of the best technical talks I have heard this year.
In that case, I don't see how private gun ownership preceding the revolution would be particularly relevant anyway.
Build a Solution
Part of the idea, finding the source of the problem rather than taking the solution at face value, can be applied anywhere. In my experience in graphic design, a client will say something like "can you make our logo bigger", which is sort of a cliche of horrible clients, but it's a cliche because it happens so often.

However, if I simply ask "why", I find out that (90% of the time), they just want the logo to be more prominent. As a graphic designer, I know a number of tricks to make elements more visible aside from making them bigger. At this point I can offer a variety of solutions that increase visibility while maintaining the balance of the original design.
Study: Most projects on GitHub not open source licensed
Can you tell a short story about how some specific piece of information this person shares with a US site winds up shared with the USG?
Heh, I doubt much of the HN crowd runs IIS in their stack.. good to know just in case I guess.
Mt.Gox worth $1 billion US dollar
I'm a little sore that the FAQ Listed that as an alternative. That was how I did it in bash before I realized I could do "sudo !!" which was waaaaay more convenient.

It's a step backwards. Which I'm fine with, as long as you step forward again, in some way.
Sorry I was a little inexact, when I said SHA-2 256 I meant specifically the SHA-2 256 bit (SHA-256) hashing algorithm as opposed to SHA-1 which is considered weak. Not the key length. Though I suspect a 64 character long random string has sufficient entropy.
ATable author here. This is my first real open source project, so I'm looking forward to any feedback I can get. This grew out of a project I was doing for my current employer when I realized it might be helpful for other developers as well. Thanks in advance for the feedback!
also you would die.
> On top of that convincing a publisher to put up the money for such a risky project would be incredibly difficult.

Sounds like a good use case for Kickstarter.

It's not purely romance, but at least one project apparently models relationships: "Amaranthine uses simple game mechanics to reflect the ebb and flow of relationships, and lets the power of those relationships influence your success or failure now."

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/machineage/amaranthine-a...
That already happened. From the IDL release on March 19th:

Dear Internet Defense League member,

Last year, right on the heels of our historic victory against SOPA, a piece
of really nasty legislation almost passed that would have radically undermined
online privacy.

It was called CISPA. And it raced through the US House of Representatives,
passing before any of us had a chance to react. We stalled the bill in the
Senate, but now CISPA is back, and we don't want to make the same mistake twice.
Before there is *any* movement on the bill, we want to send a strong message
to Congress that CISPA shouldn't pass.

That's why we're partnering with the Electronic Frontier Foundation to launch
an Internet Defense League action starting tomorrow, Tuesday March 19th.

Can you participate? If so, get the code for your site here: http://members.internetdefenseleague.org

The problem is that online activism seldomly accomplishes anything. But a more pessimistic point of view might also suggest that we don't stand a chance against this, because this shit will come back every year until it passes. It will pass in pieces because they have to hack it up into easily swallowable packets, but it will pass. Online privacy and freedom goes the same way as net neutrality, sadly.
Like I said before guys, start using end-to-end encryption. Stop talking and start sticking it to the man. If a company cooperates with the government, then don't use their products or services.
Looks like he lost about 5,000 followers in a day.

I think he had like 24k and now he has 19k.
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Obama veto threat = false sense of security to CISPA opposers

His track record tells me he'll sign it happily while saying "I have serious reservations about this".
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Look at the video after he's taken the pieces out of the frame and reassembled them on the table—say, at 1m20s (http://youtu.be/_LY7mf49l5k?t=1m20s or screen shot here: http://imgur.com/GgxONLV). He's kept the two reassembled halves separate.

Look at the diagonal edges of the halves. They don't match up! I've put them together in Photoshop to make it clear: http://imgur.com/gsP6AxG When you put the two halves together, you don't get full cells. You get a crazy mishmash, because the height of one of the halves has been increased by 3/7ths of a cell-height. He replaced some pieces when he flipped the frame over.
Called them yesterday, didn't help.
If you change the units that one of the variables is measured in, it will change all the "principal components"!

So what ? The same is true of most machine learning methods including neural networks and SVM's, you just have to use the same units consistently.
Nothing happened. This data is incomplete, "expectation that the dip won't look quite so severe when additional information comes in." And if you look at the other charts, everything is just fine. All this means is that more small deals were done in Q1, rather than big deals. Just stick to comparing A, B, C rounds, not overall value of pre-money rounds.
IIRC, they added the hyphen because of the unfortunate pronunciation of the URL when it's not there.
https://github.com/cwales/cwales.github.com/tree/master/SPOO...
I think you meant "this is Apple letting you know who owns their notification infrastructure".
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It is interesting that ExtJs is so much searched for than any other of the most popular frameworks. Specially since you don't hear much about ExtJs lately. AngulaJs though is getting close.
If you lose your DB you're in trouble regardless. We're talking about the level of trouble here. I'd rather be faced with a 30 day key rollover of all my users than a forced immediate change.

I dont see any reason to continue the argument. It's clear to me that you should hash your API keys in your DB.
How We'll Look Back on the Internet in 2068
The last full-term President with fewer vetoes was a member of the Whig party.
CISPA: Myths vs Facts

http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...
Demystifying d3: How Those Really Cool Examples Work
Slides from my recent intro to d3 talk I gave at Gem City JS (http://gemcityjs.com/). I recorded a screencast but had forgotten to turn on audio (doh!).

Hope these are useful to someone wanting to learn d3!
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I am no expert on the matter, but I believe what this does is pave the pre-approval for something that has long been in place; echelon.

Basically the government had previously stated that capturing of any electronic information and storing it is not the same as wire-tapping/reviewing the information.

They can capture and record whatever they want and should they at a later date want to look at anything you did, they can get the warrant and look at this historical info.

With CISPA -- the legal process for doing any of this is now far easier for them.

(please correct me if this is not true)
It's funny that you mention Qwest (Now CenturyLink), and the illegal spying program, because they (along with AT&T) are brokering access to the NSA's latest spying toy, which CISPA is intended to expand.

http://www.dc3.mil/dcise/DIB%20Enhanced%20Cybersecurity%20Se...

This DIB Enhanced Cybersecurity Service is being handled by the defense contractors who donate to Mike Rogers:

http://www.opensecrets.org/politicians/contrib.php?cycle=201...

4. AT&T

8. General Dynamics

9. Raytheon

9. SAIC Inc

9. Lockheed Martin

9. Northrop Grumman

19. BAE Systems

Their letters of support for CISPA, referencing the DIB program, are on the Senate website:

http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...

I write to you on behalf of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) to express our support for The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011 (HR 3523). ... As you are aware, NDIA is a non-profit organization, and is America's leading Defense Industry association, ... Our members represent the entire spectrum of the Defense Industrial Base (DIB). ... To illustrate, some NDIA members have participated in the Department of Defense's DIB Pilot program...

http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...

ASIS

...
The bill also gives businesses certainty that cybersecurity information shared with the government would be provided safe harbor and would not lead to frivolous lawsuits, among other protections.

http://intelligence.house.gov/sites/intelligence.house.gov/f...

"I am please to write to you to express CSC's wholehearted endorsement of the "Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act of 2011" which you released today and which requires the Director of National Intelligence to establish a program allowing certified organizations to use classified cyber signatures to help protect their IT enterprises...

As you know, CSC was the first IT enterprise company invited to join the defense industrial base pilot program (DIB)...

This program was quietly started around 2011:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/major-internet-servic...

NSA allies with Internet carriers to thwart cyber attacks against defense firms

The National Security Agency is working with Internet service providers to deploy a new generation of tools to scan e-mail and other digital traffic with the goal of thwarting cyberattacks against defense firms by foreign adversaries...
The Internet carriers are AT&T, Verizon and CenturyLink. Together they are seeking to filter the traffic of 15 defense contractors, including Lockheed, CSC, SAIC and Northrop Grumman.

There is at least $6B waiting to go to the defense contractors to help the NSA. (They're already working with the NSA on the big Utah datacenter):

ttp://www.bizjournals.com/washington/blog/fedbiz_daily/2013/01/northrop-saic-mantech-among-those-to.html?page=all

Northrop, SAIC, ManTech among those to bid for DHS' $6B cyber program

Northrop Grumman Corp., ManTech International Corp. and SAIC all confirmed to me their plans to bid as a prime contractor for DHS' Continuous Monitoring as a Service program, which will be worth up to $6 billion over five years
Sounds great. But websites touch everything so you have to get specific. You have discussions about how things will be maintained and integrate. Now these might be scheduled after a sale, but not always. Being vague creates suspicion to me, so you have to show me, I don't trust a salesman with a short list of rounded benefits.

Too bad in retail, the salesman is pretty much gone after the sale. Then you're stuck because the benefit of the technology doesn't actually work in practice because people have specific needs AND some processes are better than others.

So I'm not a huge buyer into the benefits sell. I think it causes people to get lazy about what they need to know about their product and I think it also puts them into assumption mode about their customer, that they don't think deeply, and that they are oblivious to any useful technical details. And those of us customers who have gotten burned before rarely forget it.

With that said, I think leading with the benefits is great, the trouble is, when everyone leads with the same general benefit "it will make x easier" it becomes time to again leverage something to set yourself apart.
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I feel the exact same way. I especially enjoyed reading one article a few years back about a real-world Eve scam. Not sure how to find it anymore but it was very well written as are a lot of Eve stories.

I did not know CCP bought White Wolf Studios and will be looking forward to what they do with those creative brands. Will they dominate the sci-fi and horror genre?
If you are interested in working with/through Kaggle on a longer-term basis, finding some solution outside of a lawsuit would be something to think about. You are getting a chance to interact with them and maybe build contacts that could be useful down the road. If the offer was insulting and/or you don't want to work with them down the road, that is another matter. When you start bringing in lawyers on both sides it becomes an entirely different matter than what it "right". It becomes a costly legalese/terms/courtroom issue. Good luck either way.
I thought when activated it would black out all of the member sites. And I thought it had some big names like Reddit. But I don't remember anything special happening on March 19th.

It must really not be working if someone like me who reads tech sites every day didn't notice it?
What good is end-to-end encryption if the server you're communicating with is legally obliged to forward your data to a gov database?
I had to leave blueglass