skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm, you know, this is a comparison of two different prison systems with two different prisoners. I fail to see a control here. As much as the observation of one person that has been through a system would be valuable insight looking into another, I don't find it anything more than subjective.

I bring up the point about two different prisoners in that 1. I don't believe all prisoners should be treated alike and 2. Different strokes for different folks. As for baseline humanity, again that is subjective. Pirates viewed marooning with some jug of water and a knife and shot as humane. I don't think that fits today's standards of humane treatment.

The article suggests that because of one man in the system the exception if you will, is getting screwed, we must do more to prevent this from happening. I'd argue that if this was a computer system, one exception isn't something to write home about. Many exceptions depending on how you define it however...

Systemic exceptions are expensive to fix and will cost us all a good amount in practice, so the real question we may ask ourselves is, how much money are we willing to put in taxes to overhaul the system? More specifically how much are each one of us willing to pay? A lump some of a dollar? Sure. A million dollars? Not so sure.

Anyway, it's a mother jones article, it and many like it prey on the notion of self-hate and guilt-ridden introspection that many of the U.S. audience loves to talk about, including me!
I never said they weren't allowed to care about money in general; only that it shouldn't be their primary motivation for disclosing a security vulnerability. Even if it is, I'm not saying that makes them a bad person either; only that they can't use the white hat label as the author did in my second quote.
Firefox on Mac: No

Chrome and Safari on Mac: Yes

Bonus:
IE8 on Win7 (I already had a VM open!): No
Here's a thought from someone who's semi bi-lingual from a very young age. (Semi because I'm not completely fluent, but proficient.

Some people when speaking another language that's not native, will 'image' the english word when talking. Like, saying "ni hao" but in their mind it will be 'hello'.

However for people who've learned it from a young age, 'ni hao' is simply 'ni hao' and 'hello' is 'hello' but the meanings we recognize as the same. I don't remember the source to this, but take it as you will.
Sting operations are always an interesting topic. In many countries, law enforcement people prefer these operations because they're easier to do and elicit better media coverage, at the expense of fighting real crime. And of course, as a result of media coverage people in management get promotions, and the public presumably stops questioning the effectiveness of tax dollars spent.
I don't think Apple has the same cost structure as everyone else; they could afford to loan a supplier enough money to essentially bring cost savings forward. I could see a $999-1499 Retina Desktop display now, and/or Retina iMac.
I want one of those magazines like the old neckbeards talk about, full of BASIC programs that you had to type in one line at a time and compile to run. I know there's online tutorials and that, but the idea of having a paper magazine and pecking out characters is just so appealing. Can anyone point me the right way?
Plugin author here -- my fault for not browser testing, but hey, that's what I'm posting it for in the first place.

Will investigate now :)

EDIT: Now fixed for all major browsers, as far as I can tell :P
This is great. I find it's sometimes difficult to navigate through some stack traces. so good idea.

However, I don't see myself copying and pasting stack traces. Would love to have something built in in my workflow. :)
And when someone says that the original author of Erlang is speaking wrong about a basic mechanism of... Erlang, I don't think there's going to be many objective responses, probably more pointing and laughing.
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Works for me (Chrome 27, Windows). Only the headers's borders can be used as handle, or so it seems.
I am definitely on the side which thinks comparing purchases to a daily cup of coffee is bad. It evokes negative associations in me and I have to assume that it will in others, so it's not good marketing.

I understand what they're trying to say, but it just feels like the wrong way to go about it.

However, I really like the way you phrased it: "It's not enough money for you to think hard about dear, don't hurt your head with the math and just go for it."

Drop the slightly condescending tone and I think that is a winner!

"It's not enough money for you to think hard about it. Don't bother with the Math and just go for it!"

I like this, for whatever reason. It's honest and direct?
You can't just view anyone's private photos. They have to have been logged into facebook (have a session) and then go to your domain with the exploit.
> Who is paying drastically more for website flaws?

Black hat markets, presumably. At least that is the point being made by commenters here. Granted, selling the vulnerability is illegal and immoral, but that doesn't stop it from happening. The 'market rate' for vulnerabilities seems to be higher than what Facebook and Google are paying out.
This looks great! How do I specify a media query for different screen densities? For instance, if I wanted to serve a 2880px wide image to a 15" Retina MacBook Pro and a 1440px to a 'normal' computer?
True; that said some people moved Rails 2.x apps to Ruby 1.9 (with a bit of patching); I wouldn't be surprised to see LTS migrate to 1.9 gradually.
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It's a market. As the vulnerabilities become harder to find, Facebook will have to increase the payout to continue to find takers, if they view it as a worthwhile investment (they may decide that since vulnerabilities are harder to find the program has less merit, which I would disagree with).
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Is that just because Netflix still uses Silverlight?
Hear, hear.

New Zealand has a strong history of standing up to the big bully, I sincerely hope it continues.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Zealand%27s_nuclear-free_zo...
Vacations are for relaxing! this is how people get burned out....I like the idea though :D I've been wanting to learn go for a bit.
>both of them scoffed at the idea of paying for email.

The problem is? google provides better email service, for free[1], than most pay providers. I am /exactly/ the sort who would run a for-pay email service; I wrote my first sendmail .mc before I was old enough to drink, (and that was back when sendmail was still a thing) and I've been maintaining mailservers longer than that. Also, I have a reasonable reputation for transparency.

But I don't think I could compete with Google. I mean, sure, I could get you a much more private service, but for what people expect to pay, I just couldn't do as good of a job of actually maintaining the mailservers as google does. Hell, even if I could charge 1998 rates, like $5/box/month (which I can't) I don't think I could do a better job of that than google.

If you really want the full privacy benefits of having private email (e.g. being able to know something is /really deleted/ when you delete it,) you have to run your own mail server. Doing this well is a fair spot of work, probably more than $5/day worth of work (I mean, if you are compensated well enough that a latte is worth $5 more than a drip coffee with milk made at home. It is a non-zero amount of work, and you do have some sort of 'emergency' work every couple of years; something that is broken that is causing mail to bounce. Personally, I rate 'emergency' work as more expensive than the kind I can do on my own schedule.)

[1]I mean, in exchange for whatever monetary value they can extract from running their automated advertising tools against your data.
Would go further punishing the Police for this kinda thing would be bad precedent. The police chief did nothing wrong as far as i understand, he got all the right warrants, didn't use excessive force, didn't ignore protocol etc.

The judicial branch may or may not have some responsibility, as its their job to interpret the law and use some degree of judgement.

But ultimately this is the laws created by the legislative branch, and it appears this is the executive branch pushing through some agenda at behest of the US.

I do think the policeman has the responsibility for some level of personal professional conduct, i on the other hand do not want the police to have the full authority to chose to disregard the judicial and executive branches of government because they dont agree with a law
Actually people are making a wise financial decision when they do this -- email service is something that you cannot stop or easily change overnight; coffee is something you can. If and when they are in a serious financial crunch (and even the moderately rich worry about this happening), they can stop spending the $5 on the latte, but if they used a paid email service they cannot stop spending the money on the email service because it is usually very critical to a lot of their future. With free and relatively good email services like YMail, GMail and Outlook, it doesn't make sound financial sense to spend money on a paid service that is critical to your daily life that you cannot cut it off when you are in a financially bad situation. Also the same people would go for free coffee if someone did offer free coffee daily at the same quality level as their favorite latte shop.
I use my Pi to control my sprinklers valves https://github.com/pothibo/irrigation
You may want to consider these facts:

- I'm 43 years old, and I've been in Silicon Valley for 15 years.

- I've been intimately involved with a number of startups, in different capacities.

- My latest company was a 7-year ride before we sold to LinkedIn.

Many startups I knew were killed by unfortunate and unforeseeable events. My own startup would have died if one of many unpredictable life events that happened to me before or after the journey had instead occurred during.

Startups are very fragile endeavors, and all the hard work in the world can amount to nothing if you don't have a significant amount of luck (or avoid bad luck, if you prefer).

For every guy like me who got successful, there are a number of other guys like me who did all the right things and didn't. Such is life.
doesn't work for me, FF21.0, Windows
20 years ago today, Marc Andreesen announced support for annotation in Mosaic.
Ctrl-P?
Joe's points are really good. This drives me crazy in Elixir:

iex(1)> f = fn x -> x + 1 end

#Function<erl_eval.6.82930912>

iex(2)> f()

(UndefinedFunctionError) undefined function(stack trace trimmed...)

iex(2)> f.(1)

2
There's a media query available (with prefixes, right now) for pixel density – a retina MBP reports it as 2 whereas a standard one reports it as 1. So you can have a media query for a pixel density >= 2, etc.
SmartThings opens up its home automation platform to developers
D and/or Rust?
I expect they'll launch the Retina Thunderbolt with the new Mac Pro (or whatever the new high-end thing is) because it will have Thunderbolt and will be the top end.

Will that come at WWDC, or later in the yaer... ?
Not working ( Opera Next 15 OSX )
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Is there a way to deselect an option without reloading the page?

For example: Under "DOM Structure", once you select "DOM" or "String", you can never go back to seeing all the template options.
Cloud Computing is fine if it uses proper encryption etc.

That few players do this is a market opportunity. If I was running a cloud service there's no way I'd want any ability to tell what data was being stored....
I have a static IP at home. I use my Pi to enforce IP-based access restrictions on most sites that allow it. I use ssh's built-on socks proxy (-D on command line or DynamicForward config option) to do this. Firefox and Chrome both support SOCKS proxies.

I also use it to deploy hobby web sites.
I'd like to use it for transcoding - anyone working on that?
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On a completely unrelated note - has anyone noticed the numbers actually form a palindrome?
"Everyone does everything" has been the developer mentality at the company that I work for, which is a small software company of about 14 devs and 3 teams. We're an agile/scrum shop and all developers work on front-end, back-end, devops, etc. We do have a UX person, product manager and sysadmin. All developers work on all products, as well.

The advantage is that knowledge is shared between all developers and any can do most tasks. The downside I see is that nobody is really the specialist in an area and thus less efficient at getting their work done.
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11 reasons why the new Flickr, not Facebook, is the place to put your photos
> I'm not quite sure how you make these claims.

Because statistically, this is nearly always the case.

>And I'm willing to bet there are numerous students who came from high schools like the ones you describe.

I'd be surprised if there is even one student from the kind of school the GP describes. Even if you find one, you've found an anecdote. An exception that proves the rule.

> There is a reason this institution has been an incubator for leaders around the world.

And right here is where your argument flies out the window. "Leaders around the world" are usually not better than anyone else, often worse. They're simply better connected. Which, incidentally, is what is being pointed out.

I know you really want to believe it was grit, determination, and something extra that everyone else doesn't have that got you where you are but it was actually privilege. If you had been born to the wrong family all the "grit" you think you have wouldn't have gained you anything.
Why not just put stuff into the public domain?
Google exec sees Google Fiber as a 'moneymaker'
> Cloud Computing is still the perfect solution.

We're talking about computer systems designed by humans? There is no such thing as a perfect solution, just a solution that hasn't shown any downsides yet.
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I have no evidence to suggest that the website auth bypass markets are real.

You could definitely contact your local firm of private investigators, insinuate that "I can access anyone's FB account," and make a tidy sum from doing just that.

Playing devil's advocate, admittedly, but there is still a very active market for quite petty-yet-nasty stuff, e.g. land developer wanting to access email accounts of local residents protesting against the plans.

Actually, you want weird? Thanks to my latest "seeking work" post on HN (and "Hacker" appearing in the page's title), I had someone ask me to hack the local authority computers responsible for registering peoples' deaths. This was, apparently, in order to give his funeral director company a leading edge.

Does Matasano never get cranks asking for stuff of a similar nature?
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It depends if that newer syntax allows you to handle more things at the same time. Without explicitly measuring and mentioning it that's what these super-set languages are trying to do I think.

With CoffeeScript I always end up translating to JavaScript into my head so cognitively it's more effort for me. Another JavaScript super-set might liberate me from thinking of otherwise trivial things and leave more room for planning or "registry" access.
None of that is a particular issue with cloud over any other way of hosting your data.

Of course, there's an argument where the cloud provider or colo is too willing to hand over your stuff, and if you have your own, in-house datacenter, at least you get to tell them to come back with a warrant. But when they do, you're done. Even though it was found illegal, I'm pretty sure the dotcom raid was done with warrants.
So the point of the article is that even if it only has 100 users, it's still a success? I doubt that very much.

I don't use the app, nor do I know anyone that does.
Syria takes down Syrian Electronic Army's website
I hate paperwork, but I suppose that providing a document with all the copyright notices along with the car, can't be that bad.
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Any type of hegemony will have awkward repercussions and collateral damage.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bania_%28caste%29
FBI: Cyber criminals hitting photo-sharing apps
Not explicitly, no, but it certainly seemed to me to be strongly implied. You didn't say "If you have tried an idea and found it to work well, I think you have an obligation to get others to try it too." You just said "If you think something is a good idea". My point is that, to put it bluntly, just "thinking" it's a good idea is worth very little by itself; it certainly isn't enough to obligate you to try to get others to adopt it. You need a lot more than that.
> with prefixes, right now

Right, which is what concerns me. So is this the expectation?

<img src="small.jpg" data-interchange="[normal.jpg, (only screen)], [medium.jpg, only screen and (min--moz-device-pixel-ratio: 2),
only screen and (-o-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2/1),
only screen and (-webkit-min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),
only screen and (min-device-pixel-ratio: 2),
only screen and (max-width: 749px)]">
Looks cool, I'll have to check that out in more detail. I pretty much just curated all of the bits and pieces of mine (php script to get metadata info on mp3s and then add to db, etc). Haha, so mine ends up as a mishmash of different things, a beautiful hack basically.
I have never thought about it that way before.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinsons_law_of_triviality
> Vacations are for relaxing!

Maybe it wasn't exactly relaxing, but it has been fun!

> this is how people get burned out...

This is how I re-energize when taking a break from medicine :-)
Also, Swig.

http://paularmstrong.github.io/swig/
> If you are truly a white hat then you aren't motivated by money.

False.

> You are principally motivated by wanting to make the world a better, safer place.

Probably true.

That's not contradictory. And neither is wanting to disclose a vulnerability responsibly, wanting Facebook to be secure against the vulnerability you just found (even only because it affects you, your friends, family, people you care about) and at the same time feeling that $4,500 is a bit of a meagre bounty for a find of some particular severity.

You can argue about whether $4,500 is, or is not, reasonable. But as you may notice, it's not like he held the bug "hostage" threatening to sell it to the black market otherwise, or even hinting at perhaps doing that the next time.

He can be wanting to make the world a better place (or Facebook a safer site), and still be dissatisfied with the reward he got.

Even rationally: for instance, one could reason that even though they could sell the bug for $20k on the black market, this could cause damage and harm to innocent people on a scale (and with a certainty, because they won't buy the bug to just sit on it) that isn't worth the extra money he could gain (and for people with a decent moral compass that threshold is passed easily without even having to consider the risks of dealing with the black market etc). Then, having come to this conclusion, one could say "Well, I did the right thing, and I am disappointed that Facebook isn't offering more incentive for others to do the same".

Also, the incentive is not just for convincing people to give the bug to the good guys instead of the bad guys. It's clear from the article that he spent a deliberate and non-trivial amount of effort on finding this bug, he didn't just stumble across it. This Facebook bug was found because they offered a mystery prize, prompting him to search for a bug and dig deep, then he got disappointed that the prize was less than he anticipated. It's not so much a question of "will he sell it to the bad guys next", rather it's "will he bother going through that much trouble again to help fix a flaw in Facebook, knowing what the payoff will be?"

That said, my question: is $4,500 really too little? How much hours did this cost him (times a price appropriate to his specialist knowledge, of course), so how much should it have been, for doing the right thing? 2x, 3x this? I don't think straight up matching it up to black market prices really makes a lot of sense, there's too many external factors that make it a very different deal.
One big difference is, nobody selling coffee is competing against a vast, easily accessible sea of competitors handing out coffee for free.

The transaction cost is also much lower - you don't have to fill out a form, you dig into your pocket and fish out some change. Your pocket carries change without any need for a confirmation email. And you can easily pick between the $5 coffee, the $2 coffee or the $0.50 caffeinated can of sugar water. But however small, these still involve the exchange of money.

The analogy would work if at every door in your city, there was someone handing out possibly mediocre coffee to every morning commuter. Along with a flyer containing some offers that you don't have to take but maybe would consider reading while on the train. You can imagine what this is going to do to the business of the really nice couple who hand-select their beans from fair-trade producers in Brazil and just invested in a $15,000 espresso machine.
You won't be able to buy the time to run those adverts, unfortunately.

Kalle Lasn[1] of Adbusters fame has been trying to do it for years, and the networks just say "We won't run adverts contrary to our big sponsors". Yes, even PBS and the CBC say this.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalle_Lasn
How would that help in a situation like Dotcom's? Their servers were taken and his house was raided. Any backup system at his house would have been taken as well.
I'll try getting the tutorial up soon - I was going to make it into a github.io page, so I have some more stuff to figure out.
Also, be confident enough that your confidence does not depend on which of two synonyms you use to suggest changes you would recommend.
maybe fat-fingered on a phone? (edit: referring to its previous downvoted state)
I ran all those services at once to try out the performance, and I have to say turning on SABnzbd took the biggest hit. SSH'in for example was just dam slow. I am not sure how you manage to run all those with XBMC on as well. I was using raspmc distro, not sure that makes a huge difference.
Flagged. The title is a bit baity. I came here hoping to read up on the beginnings of a good discussion of Android development options and instead I run into a random, incoherent rant of no value.

These kinds of rants are probably more appropriately posted at your personal blog, not in an Ask HN post. Your account is 10 days old and your comment history is filled with similar incoherency. Perhaps you should post less and read more until you get a good handle on HN culture?
to clarify Zan's comment its

511 ( startups ) 11(.)5 (B)

for it to be one " startups " , decimal and B have to be parsed out ;-)
Great stuff! I could use something like this :)
But it'll be too slow to be useful for anything, so it's not quite so different.
You don't sell the exploit, you sell the hack. You could sell someone private access to all facebook data of one person. Proving you have the ability is easy, you can just show one image that is supposed to be private, and promise the rest.