skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s worth noting that op-ed writers are generally the most well-known journalists. [Their] picture is always printed, they write with a signature style, and papers advertise their faces and perspectives. Reporters, in contrast, write in an anonymous “this is news” tone fitting an institution that did not introduce bylines until the 1920s.

This suggests a solution: print journalists' photos with their articles, so they can be recognized and remembered more easily. I'd wager that some newspapers would fight such a change, but it might actually be in the paper's interest for their reporters become draws in their own right, much like op-ed writers or reviewers like Roger Ebert.
> Then they probably went through every worst case scenario possible

It's such a bad idea to develop a product like this. Developers who focus on anti-piracy measures miss the point: focusing on a frictionless way for consumers to acquire your product (and keep it up-to-date), while ignoring all those who pirate it will lead to more money in the long run.

Most anti-piracy measures introduce friction for genuine consumers who want to give you money. It's a poor trade-off.
Games were meant to be installable on multiple consoles, so if they wanted reselling or giving away a game to completely disassociate the license from the seller's/giver's account, every console with that game would need to be kept online to verify this. So if there were an offline mode that disabled license-transfer features, it would have to apply as long as even one console were in this mode. This means that it would be possible for someone to put themselves into a state where they'd be permanently prevented from reselling or giving games because they don't have physical access to some console that's been put in offline mode.

There are of course further workarounds/mitigations for this problem, such as putting a (100 days?) time limit on offline mode, but they make the system even more complicated.
That's very true, but as long as the company is doing the 'surveilllance' and not the government, the warrant can be done on a just-in-time basis. This essentially all that Prism is, after all.
You should really consider that at no time would Monty himself have received a wire transfer for a billion dollars. This "Monty got a billion dollars, what more does he want?!" thing is repeated all the time, but it's just not true. The MySQL companies were bought by Sun for a billion dollars, but Monty did not own 100% of the companies (or even close) -- MySQL was substantially owned by a bunch of VC companies and other executives, all of which got the lion's share of the money.

Since tax records in Finland are public, you can see how much Monty made from this acquisition (approximately) here:

http://www.iltasanomat.fi/kotimaa/art-1288338449921.html

(Ulf Michael Widenius income for 2008, ~16.8M EUR)
I can't point firmly to a specific example without spending some time re-researching it, but I know I've read of certain products -- mosquito nets, more efficient little stoves for cooking, solar cookers, etc. -- that are adapted culturally to specific markets in Africa, among other places, and which the (government, researcher, or nonprofit/charity) makers of such products found people won't use if they're donated or freely given. Instead, small amounts of money need to be charged for them. When people feel they're buying them for an amount that holds value for them, they value the item more, and trust it more.

So I'd say your concept is sound. But there must be some scale to it to actually make any kind of margin, and you'd have to research the numbers to see if it could work.
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Have you evaluated alternative compressors to QuickLZ? LZ4 and Snappy both offer comparable compression speed and much faster decompression, which would seem to be a big win for read-heavy workloads.
"This is an interesting approach to the Fourth Amendment: pressure most everyone to agree, in advance, to waive their rights under it."

https://www.google.com/search?q=This+is+an+interesting+appro....
She didn't design the Wordpress template. Look at "projects" instead.. the car graph near the bottom is hilarious IMHO :D

But let's assume you totally dislike all of that, too - yeah, and? She got hired as a designer and didn't get fired since, which makes me believe her employer is happy with hiring her. It also does make her a professional in the sense of the word, like it or not.

I don't like the Wordpress theme either, but you act like she said she's a great designer because of it. Come on.
You mean like the microphone found in almost every laptop, tablet, or phone?

I guess the difference with this microphone is that it's listening to you all the time by default, and that creeps some people out. But it's not sending your words over the network, and is not more likely to start doing so than any of the aforementioned devices (actually, much less, because of increased security); it's just pattern matching for the word "Xbox". Kind of like the initial worries over Gmail "reading your email" to target ads: I predict that this too will peter out once people start actually using the product, albeit perhaps never die completely.

(For the record, the fact that Gmail messages can also be read by law enforcement under some circumstances is both a serious issue and irrelevant to the analogy.)
On a side note, of all the things I expected to see, Justin Bieber trolls were not on that list.

I suspect this is Wikileaks making opportunistic inferences. If someone's being investigated by the FBI, their mind is going to be elsewhere. A distracted driver, possibly one that's also tired (I don't imagine he was sleeping well if this was the case) is more likely to have an accident. It's unlikely to be a hit job courtesy of the FBI!

Wikileaks needs to not descend to the Daily Mail's level. If they want the public to take them seriously they need to maintain a squeaky clean image, free from tabloid rhetoric. Ambiguous "teaser" tweets do nothing to bolster their image and only serve to undermine it.
The Internet is beautiful. The tweet immediately fell into the pits of Biebermania somehow.
Yes but checking-in every 24 hours is not something you actually "do". It's something that happens transparently in the background. The vase majority of consumers wouldn't notice the automated check-in that was present in their previous design.
NuoDB Driver for Perl
can't wait for jucheck.exe!
My problem with the Angular docs is that they're written by people who are steeped in Angular. It's the oldest problem in technical writing. How do you convey something that you grok? These videos have helped me, but when I actually sat down to cut code, I felt like I had to start all over again. I was still lost.

Lately I've been trying to use Anki to improve my recall of technical facts. Forensically deconstructing the docs has helped because I have to focus, really focus, to pick out the important things.

And it's still hard to parse anyway. Especially when there are restatements of previous restatements that are sufficiently incompatible that you wonder which is correct. I've popped the hood several times to read the damn code, which IMO sorta kinda defeats the purpose of documentation (and the fondness for large compound boolean statements gives me the heebie-jeebies).

And don't get me started on the idiocy of using sigils to configure behaviour.

I will stick with it, but I can see that I am going to be reading and re-reading and re-re-re-reading the docs and code for a few weeks yet.

edit: "The problem" to "My problem".
>You could reach out to Balanced about API wrappers libs, I'm sure they would love someone to write language idiomatic libraries for them. It might be a nice contract gig.

I have, they suggested I open a ticket, and I did many months ago. No movement since.

I am not good enough to write a wrapper and frankly time/money preference dictates I spend it elsewhere, in any case.
pc, nothing would make me happier. I cannot stress strongly enough how good your service is. That is literally the only thing I care about with regards to sustainment/upgrading of your service. (Not to say I haven't enjoyed the other things you've done, of course.)
Spark: lightning-fast cluster computing
http://hostrum.com/ if you care about security, daily off-continent backups, and active malware scans. Not the cheapest guy in town but worth every penny.

GoDaddy if you're like being upsold. :)
"No company have ever increased the revenue by changing an insignificant detail like a button color. None. Zero. Get over it."

I remember Josh the founder of Omniture said how they first got hired by ebay back in the day. Changing the color of the ebay homepage and button to yellow helped ebay increase sales by 15%. That slight increase on a heavily trafficked website resulted in millions of dollars in increased sales.
What Do You Own When You "Own" Bitcoins?
Planetary Resources' KickStarter campaign is about to reach funding goal
Let's say you install the game on two consoles. You put console 1 offline, then go online with console 2 and de-activate the license (by reselling, giving, etc. the game). How does console 1 know that the license has been de-activated?
Neverwinter Guide | Best Guide to Neverwinter
LZ4 is on our road-map for experimentation. I could see a faster decompressor really helping when you have high-end flash storage.
I have lost my Rocketmail email address this way after it was purchased by Yahoo in 1997.
One woman in the area described it sounding “like a bomb went off in the middle of the night” & a man said “I couldn’t have written a scene like this in a move” with the engine flying 50-60 yards from the car.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-1KzlL9fJM
You would be thrilled about what the ancient Romans did then.

But if you want to stick with the U.S., you might find that stuff that President Lincoln did quite atrocious from a civil liberties point of view as well.
Kim called it a "data massacre", he's not one for understatement. Kim should of already had backups, he can't expect a business to hold his leased servers without any compensation.
I bought the audio version a while ago and agree with most of this. I bought it through some other site (probably whatever the SV Historical Society site linked to) and found it virtually impossible to post a review, due to errors about illegal characters in the text. I did find the 15 or so minutes to be worthwhile, but I wished it had been clear that it wasn't an hour-long interview. The person who answered my e-mail was apologetic and comped me another interview.
Stripe team will give a talk about it Saturday in SF, on Building APIs for Developers, with design best practices explanations http://sf.apidays.io
it is quasi-public knowledge that Makerbot has been hemorrhaging engineers for the past few years, and continues to suffer a high turnover rate due to a toxic work environment. you're right, i have firsthand knowledge about what exactly Stratasys wanted from this deal, but what i do know is that it doesn't make very much sense to acquire the company for its engineering team.
Yes, and no; because once upon a time (when the decision was made) it was really painful to hit a PDF, because you'd wake the memory-hogging, task-bar infesting beast that Firefox wanted to open PDFs with.
Really. We need to send him to jail, otherwise he'll keep breaking the law.

Edit: While he's in jail, maybe he could pick up a copy of the Constitution. :)
This is like saying "I take it you've never been shot", like knife stick or gun is the only other option. xD

Do you really think they would have subdued the (already held down by 5 officers) kid asking John Kerry uncomfortable questions with a knife stick if they didn't have tasers?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bVa6jn4rpE

Pretty sure they would have just handcuffed him and walked him out of the auditorium, untazed and concussion free.
The degree of righteous indignation in Rob Bieber's reply was somewhat excessive, especially as I can find nothing in that troll's history that indicates he'd been trying to use Rob (apparently a relative) as a way to get Justin to Brazil before! It does seem as though other Bieber fans have been harassing him though.
Looks like it's back now.

I suppose someone forgot to renew their domain! Awkward.
Microsoft launches bug bounty
The folks were patently cuckoo. If you believe that someone offering to assassinate a fellow through Voodoo ought to be prosecuted then so should these people. If you believe a case against a Voodoo assassin should be thrown out, this case ought to be thrown out.
RIP, American Dream?
They didn't really "take out the DRM", they just replaced one form of DRM (not being able to play if your internet has been disconnected for 24 hours) with another (not being able to play without the disc in the drive). It's pick your poison, and different people have different preferences.
100k is less then the 750k - 1M that lost for hanging onto them for a year without use. Sorry but something smells fishy here, the first month they should have swapped the drives and put those servers back up. (saving the drives intact just incase the feds came asking for them)
Yes. That's what actual car accidents are like. The movies don't prepare you for that.
This man's quotes are timeless. He said stuff in 1990 that is applicable to Apple today with it's current leadership.

Edit: The review on Amazon doesn't seem that good: http://www.amazon.com/Steve-Jobs-Visionary-Entrepreneur/dp/B...
Consider the WiiU. Netflix support and Video Chat, new games that neither system can do.

WiiU + PC will probably get you more coverage than PS4 + PC. As far as I can tell anyway...
The buses in that document run with less than 9 passengers on average?!

There is either a research error or some gross waste somewhere that must be looked in detail.
What would you recommend as a substitution for that entry?
"Cars just dont explode"

http://automotivethinker.com/general/cars-just-dont-explode/
Check out Lapis - http://leafo.net/lapis/ and OpenResty which is what lapis is built upon http://openresty.org/
Nobel Peace Prize nominee? Citation? Nobel Laureates are expressly prohibited from talking about the nomination process until 50 years after the fact.
Yes, and you seem to object to this correlation for some reason even though it's fairly clearly there.
Disabling root login without changing to using ssh-keys for authentication doesn't really buy you a whole lot of security; you can still access the box and root with knowing just one password -- the only thing you've avoided are brute force attempts against the root account.

With sudo and only keys based access, the attacker will need to get a copy of the key (barring any new problems with key generation, like the Debian ssl bug) and the password needed for sudo access (or the root password, for su -).

As other's have said, use visudo (possibly with "EDITOR=nano visudo) -- to avoid leaving your sudoers file in a broken state.

An as others mentioned -- make sure you can login and sudo before you log out of the root shell...
Can you give some citations on this Alaska thing? I don't know whether I can consider that bizarre or a good idea. Having people freeze to death on the streets of Anchorage is pretty awful though.
The joys of using Word templates at $500/hour. :-)
When somebody figures out how to leverage a buffer overflow exploit in order to create a camera or microphone where none exists, then the might be similar.
1. I like how they attack the strawman with their "aiding the enemy" means "the public is the enemy?!?" claim. They were suspiciously quiet about the news OBL (presumably an enemy) had information leaked by Pfc. Manning.

But I suppose propaganda techniques are only wrong when it's the government or McDonald's, eh?

2. Manning has explicitly been removed from death penalty consideration earlier in the trial process. The prosecutor had to make that declaration already, so it's not something they can back out of. But I guess lies are only wrong when said by the government?

3. I'm not so sure that they would want him to take credit for the tens of thousands of persons killed in the aggregate from Arab Spring uprisings. Even if we consider the formation of democracies a benefit worth the price, that same exact logic would also justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq...

3a. "There is no evidence that anyone died as a result of the leaked information...". Contrast with "The information that Bradley gave to the public has been a catalyst for pro-democracy movements in the Arab world...".

Alright guys, either have the cake, or eat the cake. If he truly catalyzed the Arab Spring then some number of persons died as a result of the leaked information. If no one died because of information he leaked then why try to claim credit for those uprisings?
Right, and the new DRM scheme that's replacing the "checkins" - having to change discs to play a new game - is something you actually have to physically do, and it's something that's required entirely to satisfy DRM policies at this point.

It also locks you out of playing your game in a bunch of scenarios (lost, stolen, damaged, or just don't happen to have it with you) that I think for many people are more common than a 24-hour internet outage would be, and again, it's entirely the artificial DRM restrictions that are locking you out as there's no real technical reason not to let you install the game and never need the disc again.
Cars don't burn like that when hitting a tree.
Maybe. But the feds have an historical fondness for tapes.
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/storage/tape/ts3500/index.html

A mere 500 2.7EB complexes and it starts looking like real data.
PS4 has this as well. I'm assuming it's possible to direct a calculation to either the local or remote servers.
Let's wait until any of this has been definitively, objectively declared illegal first.

[edit] His Wikipedia page says he's expected to retire next year. I have a sneaking suspicion nothing touches him and he's left alone to ride off into the sunset.

[edit edit] Actually... lying to the House is kind of illegal isn't it....
But a collision with an object could sound like a bomb and have enough energy to cause an engine to fly 50+ yards.
Nanotube Probe Gives a Single Neuron’s View of Brain Activity
See the comment thread above. The author didn't just present the data; she suggested that mobile phones are linked to socio-economic status.
I'd love to read more about how you use Anki. I've been using it for random things like the NATO phonetic alphabet or state capitals, but I've been wanting to try and create my own decks. I've just been having trouble wrapping my mind around how to turn knowledge like a library's documentation into cards. Any tips?
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Eh, in fairness I've seen that done before in far less momentous circumstances.

LT A: "Hey EM1, I'm putting you up for Sailor of the Quarter."

EM1: "Uh thanks sir, but do you think I'll win?"

LT A: "LOL, not a chance in Hell this cycle with MM1 also in the competition. But it'll help on your eval."

A couple of months later, and so it comes to pass. "NOMINATED FOR SOQ" as an eval bullet.
um, yes, they absolutely do. sadly, I know from experience.
Hacking machine learning with... machine learning
Wildly implausible.
Weird. I could have sworn it was sometime within the past four years that I emailed Twitter asking for a username and they granted it to me pretty much instantly.
Could I take your article and use it as a base for a Python version of that?
> Prostitution is legal where I live (Australia) and I can confirm that not every woman has turned to prostitution.

Indeed! It's the same in New Zealand.

As attractive as it may be (in terms of income) there are always inherent risks that come with every occupation.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57572488/bradley-manning...
Never attribute to stupidity that which can be explained by indifference.
Background Checks Faked With Lax Oversight, Watchdog Says
i hope he gets the prize, he will be the first winner jailed by another peace prize winner, fucking hilarious.
I'd probably send them another note. They've been pretty good working with GitTip.
After Aaron Swartz's untimely death, Wikileaks had the good timing of making claims that could not be proved about their association with him. But if Hastings talked to a Wikileaks lawyer, than they should be able to prove that

http://www.theverge.com/2013/1/19/3893268/wikileaks-tweets-a...
>Car drivers are more than self-sufficient.

The state of Colorado just announced that there are some roads that will never be fixed, because there isn't the money in the budget, and at the current rate there will never be (because the higher priority roads that the budget does fix will use up the budget perpetually).

I've heard that at least one big city has a "97 year" road fixing rotation, again because the budget isn't there to keep the roads fixed.

This is not even close to self-sufficiency for cars. If everyone took a bus there would be a small fraction of necessary road surface and wear-and-tear to repair. The reality is that cars have hidden costs paid by everyone, and that shifting some of those subsidies to public transit saves money.
Yes, and "linked to" is just another way of saying "correlated". I don't understand why you seem to be OK with one term but not the other.
I disagree. I found the tutorial for beginners really well done and when followed by the conceptual model it was solid.

We're thinking of integrating them into our course at http://www.thinkful.com/ – though we provide more structure than just the docs, they're pretty solid on their own.

Those resources are
- http://docs.angularjs.org/tutorial/step_00
- http://docs.angularjs.org/guide/concepts
About 3... so you're saying that foreign aggression based on lies is morally equivalent to a local revolution as long as both ostensibly have some similarities in their end goals?
And if he fell asleep (he was driving at night) and mistook the accelerator for the brake, it's quite likely the impact could have been quite a high energy one, especially in a car that's well powered.