skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A good starting place to think about the CALEA system (besides, as other comments mention, looking at CALEA itself) is this paper from Matt Blaze and his students:
http://www.crypto.com/blog/calea_weaknesses/

Also interesting is Steve Bellovin et al.'s excellent report on security implications of extending CALEA to VoIP:
https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/CALEAVOIPreport.pdf
Steve Bellovin is now the FTC's Chief Technologist and spends his days trying to bring technical sanity to the government in various ways.
I'm using it on two machines (both running arch-linux, so it's typically only one week behind kernel.org kernel releases or so), and I have not noticed data loss or corruptions, even though I crash these machines from time to time (with btrfs-unrelated things).

The ability to make daily snapshots effortlessly is godsent on my tinkering computer (so I can rollback whatever stupid idea I came up with), and on a slow laptop with a even slower 2.5" PATA harddisk, I at least have the illusion of a performance improvement by LZO compression causing less disk-accesses.
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How do I append an stdClass Object
This comment is wrong. PHP is a total mess when it comes to pdf generation, even skilled developers have to resort to things like TCPDF.

This service would provide a good alternative, and regardless of what the developer is making, the price of the service would be far lower than paying the dev for the amount of time they spent futzing around with PDFs in PHP.
They truncate your password (at 8 character not 6). Which makes things even worse in my mind. You might feel secure with a password like "Password329#*3j3f930#(4j49", but Schwab will simply validate against the "Password" portion without even letting you know the obvious security repercussions.
Unfortunately, I've noticed quite a few failures with it in our apps, so we are probably going to port to something else.

Kinda funny that the solution here is to pay for a dyno that will be sitting there doing nothing and then getting nuked fairly regularly. Seems like an opportunity for a startup: a reliable cron-like service for the cloud. Maybe web-hook based? A quick google didn't turn up any.

Aaaaaand go.

(Don't take this the wrong way, herokueans: I love you. Deeply.)
Because Google isn't a mobile company - they're a service company. They don't care if you use Android (which makes up barely any of their revenue) or iOS, so long as you use their services.

Google makes money by connecting their users to commerce opportunities. Their ability to monetize is linearly related to how many active users they have. They'd rather have 70% of the market through Android plus some proportion of non-Android users finding them through apps than have 75% of the total market and rely 100% on Android to attract users on mobile.

They get more total users and have a more diverse base. If Android starts to lose share, they still have the ability to monetize the other platforms.
The presence of an article on obsolete BBS software (for instance), somewhere in the wikipedia encyclopedia, does not intersect with anyones use-case that isn't already searching for it.

Wikipedia isn't one big giant article, where the existence of marginally noteworthy elements distracts you or diverts your attention. The articles that get deleted by the little notability hitlers are contributions with no cost incurred by anyone, save the trivial storage space.

It's like saying some guys tripod page that you never visit is somehow cluttering your experience of web browsing.
But you will need a bot to populate and update the WikiData source. :)
"Law enforcement doesn't have a hand in the tech stacks of private companies."

For good reason, because if a private company was busy bending over backwards for law enforcement through mounds of code that already works for their needs with their investor/own capital taking time away of providing/improving something useful to their target users, they wouldn't be in business for long.
Not to mention that buying cash with a credit card attracts higher interest charges from the credit card issuer.
Good ol' cross-product and angular momentum!
Async database access with PostgreSQL, Play, Scala and Heroku
Users and computers can here. Let any unskilled user make a change. There are plenty of editors who just watch the changelog and fix things up for grammer or for NPV violations, and now that can include include incorporating it into the structured data.

In the future, bots using some kind of NLP can scour over the changes and look for new facts to extract and incorporate, either by suggesting features to editors or to just make the change themselves.
Interesting, but I'm not sure how appropriate it is to be comparing it to jQuery in such a head-to-head fashion such as by saying "15x slower", etc. Does Dommy offer the same features (including the browser support) that jQuery does? If not, then you're just comparing apples to oranges, and it doesn't sound like it does (or even plans to) on account that it sounds like there are design decisions that separate the two with regards to the published API ("Inspired by jQuery, but adapted to be functional in order to better fit with ClojureScript core").

Also, wouldn't it be more accurate for the selector testing to actually test against Sizzle[1]?

Other features aren't even present in jQuery, such as templating, and so I'm not sure why you'd even compare that. Yes people can and do use templates with jQuery, but that's an implementation detail and is not a concern of the library itself; jQuery does not coerce or force you to use a slow templating system, and most any good templating system will also have a compilation step that is run at build-time. So yeah, you can take some ugly userland jQuery example code and make specific code that is faster..

1. https://github.com/jquery/sizzle
Poking around a bit, I found this press release: https://blog.wikimedia.de/2013/04/24/wikidata-all-around-the...

It looks like the ability to pull Wikidata into infoboxes was just rolled out a week ago, so I guess it wouldn't actually be used yet in a lot of places.
This can be said about any policy. And there is no way to find out how execution will go without at least trying to execute vs. complaining that execution won't work.

Funny. Because when you read my post you will certainly see that I explained the execution part. Good income source for Mumbai -- fines for littering that is. When fines are high enough and cops get their monthly quotas of them - as explained in my original post - this would lower the scale of the issue if not resolve it completely. I also have given an example of Singapore with large Indian population where this has worked.

It seems some people prefer to always complain than to actually at least try doing something...
- having a mobile version that actually is non-functional (Try babiesrus store locator on a windows phone) and then automatically switching to the crappy mobile site (m.whatever.com) on mobile phone/ipad and not letting the user easily switch to the regular site since the mobile version sucks big time.

- Having a semi-functional mobile version just to look cool. Hey I got this mobile version of my site but wait, don't have more than 50% of the functionality of the traditional site. Oops

- Irritating modal pop-ups that don;'t have a close (x) button and on mobile phones, all the users sees is the darker foreground due to the pop up and cannot do anything else.
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My guess would be http://calnewport.com/blog/2012/06/12/what-you-know-matters-...
Kevin Khandjian. </testing>
Last year I read an article about someone doing an experiment with unsubscribe links on a very old email address. It got loads of spam, and he clicked all the unsub links (or maybe wrote a script to do it). The amount of spam that address received decreased significantly.

So whether or not the "fake unsubscribe" thing was real (my intuition says yes it was), it appears that times have changed!
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_znRopGtbE) for transistors, but it feels like cheating.

Relays are doable from scratch (mining and refining copper; winding coils, etc etc) but it's going to be pretty hard work and you're going to have a very slow computer at the end of it.
So I could send it www.google.com and it would return a .pdf of google.com, exactly as it would look in the browser?
To map all human knowledge.
The is an interesting thing with websites that have a mobile and desktop version. When you click on a link and it takes you to the mobile version, when you decide to switch to the desktop, it takes you to the homepage, and there is no way to find the article you were reading.
I'm signed up for Virgin Galactic and have talked to Richard Branson about this. While they haven't been very public about it, they are absolutely focused on this use case and others beyond space tourism.
And your dismissive ad-hominem style of avoiding rebuttal is also increasingly common on here. That isn't a good thing. Stop avoiding arguments directed against you just because you think you might be wrong.
nope. Restructuring society happens when enough of it rejects the way things are currently ordered. I don't want to live with the way things are, and neither should you.

Copyright exists because a majority of society currently thinks its the best way to produce, and that very well may be in the real world of limited supplies. In a world where the only value is novelty, copyright makes no sense. Once something is created, it's value drops because it's supply is infinite. Currently society thinks the way around that is to artificially restrict supply.

I hope one day we will realize that were trying to fit a square peg in a round hole.

I would LOVE to pay for game of thrones... to be produced. Buying a copy of game of thrones is not worth its value, it has no value. It is in infinite supply. It is like air.

This is why we donate to blogs, subscribe to series, and fund kickstarters. Because that is the economy of the web. The true economy.
No, they really said "stupid." I must have blanched -- I've worked with difficult people and can tolerate a lot -- because he immediately tried to back away from it.

But, yeah, bad place to work. They went bankrupt and got delisted from the exchange about 2 years later. I will admit to feeling some schadenfreude at that.
Should've used 'ə'
Not discounting how amazing that picture is, but it is false color.
Kindleberry Pi the second
> I don't immediately understand how one would make that performant given that the DOM is a mutable data structure.

As a general rule, mutable API's tend to outperform immutable ones.
I've had my run-ins with Wikipedia admins (on the Spanish wikipedia they were convinced I was self-promoting myself by creating my country's Finance Minister's Wikipedia page), but most of the deletions are no-brainers (looking at Deletionpedia makes it very clear).

I wish they'd err on the side of leaving stuff alone in the 1% of cases where it's not black and white (like the obsolete BBS software example)
Google Now shows up for iOS but only highlights the state of Android
Safe boot clears caches (all kinds of user/system caches) and among them sandbox config files. Mystery solved.
Makes me wonder how distant planets can have such extreme meteorological phenomena while being so far from the sun.

In Earth this is powered mainly by the temperature differences caused by the Sun.
Yes. Twenty and even thirty years ago we did have essentially the same ML algorithms used in self-driving cars today, just not enough computing power to use them effectively (I think SVMs are only about 20 years old but neural nets have been around in some form since the late '50s) There is much to learn from those who have gone before.
Possibly related, a useful thread I dug up on cover letter writing recently:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783915
The longer time you have practiced something, the better you get. If you have written 1m lines, then you can be expected to know more than someone who has just written 50k. If a musician has played on stage for 500 hours, they can reasonably be expected to be more experienced than someone who has only done it for 2 hours. It's a blunt metric, yes, but most of the time it works.
I would say there is some good:

* a program with 0 lines doesn't do anything. So there's a positive correlation right there.

* "Code golf" code is typically hard to read, change, and debug, so this sets a lower bound on how much code you need to do something interesting.

* Whether you're doing copy-pasta or not, the amount of functionality usually correlates positively with how many lines you've written.

You're right that as one "levels up", the ratio of functionality/LoC goes down - again, not to code golf succinctness, but it will go down. So that's the danger of the metric. It encourages working hard, but discourages working smart.
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This is even more infuriating. I think I saw it on Cracked.com before I realized their content is crap. You'd copy part of the article and it would automatically include something like "read more at cracked.com blah blah blah".
You really shouldn't write random things from internet in your terminal.

Maybe the hardware problems is for the stereotypical consumer isn't interested in Linux if you compare to Windows and Mac OSX. Different story on server-hardware/software though.
That makes sense! We've just launched so we'll reconsider this part, that's for sure. Thanks for the valuable insights.
Python scraping framework with Selenium
Sometimes sites make crawling hard. Selenium-crawler uses selenium automation to fix that.
Cool! I am wondering if you have worked with other frameworks like Pedestal.io, C2, or WebFUI, Ganelon. Or any others. What do you think of them?

I am just getting started with Clojure/CS and am evaluating the different options.

http://pedestal.io/
http://keminglabs.com/c2/
https://github.com/drcode/webfui
http://ganelon.tomeklipski.com/
It is a bit silly. "This thing we found resembles a rose, because after we found it, we colored it like a rose." WTF?

It's an amazing image to be sure, but why all that nonsense?
You've got to appreciate the irony of microsoft.com being among the worst of the ten (if not the very worst) to render.
I wrote code like this in 1997. First year in college, micro processing course. So I wrote a simulator for the 6800 chip, and an assembler. So I didn't have to wait every Saturday at 8:30am to run my code. The professor wasn't impressed at all when I showed him my program.
One thing really missing on your website is some information on who runs it.

You provide a commercial service, but no information at all about your identity. Are you an individual or a company ? Where are you based ? Without this information, how do you expect us to trust you and provide you with our credit card information?
Fastest recorded winds (to my knowledge) are on Neptune. The lack of energy actually perpetuates them by not stopping them, in essence.
I asked Reddit, and someone provided the following answer

http://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/1dbyaz/what_are_...
I wonder how the in-flight wifi would/could be. The sort of customer you are talking about is probably rather accustomed to being constantly connected.
they person asking this question must not know why (format ) is greater than printf.

http://www.gigamonkeys.com/book/a-few-format-recipes.html
"I cost as much as two junior programmers, but I can do things that two junior programmers can't do"

Don't undercut yourself; you provide much greater value than that. People outside of engineering don't have a really clear picture about the roles and positions, and the cost structure of running a development team.

I remember a conversation with one of the clients. He was trying to interview candidates for project manager position and asked me for its job description. I explained to him what the typical structure of a development team is and what roles different people play, like project manager, development manager, architect, team lead, front-end developer, back-end dev, dba, UI designer, qa, etc. Then I casually mentioned I'm doing all those for you in this project and you are actually saving a lot of money despite my high billing rate. He appreciated that.
If the ad is on a separate page (both sides) we can tear it off. If it is part of a page, then :(

Internet has trained people not to pay for things, for more than a decade. Most people wouldn't think twice about dropping 5$ on a single cup of starbucks coffee, but would not spend the same 5$ for an email account (without ads). It's not going to be easy to change this behavior, especially on the net.
Alright enough enough I apologize for the somewhat curt answer above stop downvoting me. I'll be more verbose and more polite.

Estimate a ratio of "we need more STEM" vs "we need less STEM" in .biz, .gov, mainstream media, etc. Does anyone other than internal "tech" sites ever discuss how the pool is too big and getting too large and maybe we need licensing and unionization and apprenticeships or some way to shrink it? Lets say maybe 100 to 1 ratio? Are there any paid PR groups or lobbying groups at all on the side of the STEM worker? Any? Not even one? How bout on the other side? Oh, dozens you say working to increase the supply and drop the cost (aka our salary).

A continuous stream of one unified voice from .gov, .biz, and .edu that we need more STEM grads, more STEM immigrants, more STEM is what "we" need or else. Yet... talk to people who aren't paid PR shills and its all poor working conditions, more grads than jobs, ageism, underemployment/overeducation. Sure you'll get a few quisling types who think that supporting those trying to destroy them will somehow personally save them, although historically that never seems to work out. And there's maybe 3 or 4 cities with a high cost of living and a shortage of techies... at least right now... at least supposedly. A tiny subfield with real demand as opposed to PR demand like petroleum engineering has explosive salary growth rates... supposedly we're told the demand is even higher for code slingers, well, OK, show me the increasing salaries and the unemployment rate approaching zero. Oh that's not happening nationwide without lies, damned lies, and statistics?

Well someones lying then, or at least not telling the whole truth. Do you think the guy who stands to make a higher profit could be lying to you? Nah, Management and PR are transparent and clean as glass... How about the .gov guy purchased by the .biz guy, has a politician ever lied to you? Hmm. How bout that .edu guy who's salary more or less depends on convincing kids to enter his field, does he have any conflict of interest, or at best well intentioned delusion? Yet a VERY few lone voices in the wilderness, with no economic interest (or not much anyway) suggest maybe the emperor really does have no clothes, but they must be making it up because their reward for it is ... nothing at all? A better life for their kids? +5 of HN karma? Seems a pretty small reward at best for a lot of work.

So that's my interpretation of the players on the field. There's the completely unorganized STEM workers, and absolutely everyone else united against them with a common cause, identical PR campaign, for fairly rational similar economic reasons. I wonder which side will win?

Now compare our response to other fields involving labor forces and import/export and immigration and .gov policies. We seem to be failing ourselves in the PR war compared to ... well compared to pretty much every other field of human endeavor other than maybe the pot growers, congressmen, and sex workers. And there's a substantial overlap there at that. Actually they probably do a better job of self promotion than we do.
This is just the typical socialist "who will build the roads?" argument.

"snow storms are socialist". Ummm, no.

Socialism (n)
"any of various economic and political theories advocating collective or governmental ownership and administration of the means of production and distribution of goods"

What does that have to do with snow?

Ok, let me use that same defunct logic. Making food is capitalism. Without food we would all die. Therefore socialism is evil and capitalism is good.
I'm not sure if you meant this is sarcasm, but I read this quote as being more appropriate for an Onion-type article than for a serious discussion about security.
Well the Debian maintainer did realize this was important and emailed the OpenSSL developers. But due to a tragi-comedic miscommunication the breaking change got committed anyway.
In some ways it was nice. For those unfamiliar:

The 1802 had sixteen general purpose 16-bit registers. Any one of these could be selected as the program counter. In a tiny embedded system (which is what the part was meant for), you might choose to designate one as the ‘normal’ PC and reserve a few others for important subroutines, which could then be invoked with a one-byte ‘SEP n’ instruction. Similarly you could implement coroutines or simple task switching by switching the selected PC between a pair of registers.

On the other hand, there was no conventional call instruction. The SCRT (“Standard Call and Return Technique”) for recursive or reentrant subroutines essentially involved defining (non-reentrant) coroutines to perform the ‘recursive call’ and ‘recursive return’ operations.
Having them switch the location of /usr/lib (breaking numerous compiler tools) wasn't enough?
> There's a lot of research dating back to the early days of hypertext on automatic link insertion, but afaict it hasn't really caught on in any system

Except, of course, any mention of the name of a listed company in a financial/business publication.
You can trivially make one with a secondary Heroku app that runs a single non-web dyno running the clock process of your choice, making http calls to your primary app.

edit: Please note that this could be against the Heroku terms of service.
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Exactly this.

It would take some AI to work it out, unless using the context around the link.
"Sun" could refer to many things, its not really possible for wikipedia to know which one you're on about. So links are still done manually.
Nice way of looking at the problem of google search and the SEO spammers.
The process you describe in the essay is portrayed as one of policy and iterated improvement at Facebook, oriented around "How We Do It," with your GP example meant as support for that process as relates to "prep mode" approaches to interviewing at FB. It sounds like you're backing away from that, though.

Was your query parser work done under the pressure and constraints of an interview environment? Would you have been able to write that parser in the same form at a white board during your actual interview?
And an easy way to prevent massive revenue from unbalancing the game.

Remember that simcity is a socialist fantasy world: all development is directly purchased by central government. In the real world, zoning doesn't cost money, and stadiums are sometimes owner financed.
Your floating social sharing box is insanely annoying when trying to read the post, FYI.
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Requiring two passwords is not two-factor authentication.
At Relevance we've released a "framework" for this; it's not MVC, but it addresses the same concerns. It's still in an alpha/beta state, but you should check it out if this stuff interests you: http://pedestal.io/