skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Nice! I worked on localtunnel.me which has some similar goals. I like the SSL encryption option and the data capture. Could see that being useful for some use cases.
Synaptics Gains as Anti-Apple of the Smartphone Market
Does the poster list the startup (url or otherwise)?

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>The DPC can force [Irish] companies to reveal what they hold on people, and can require them to do (or not do) a thing if it breaks Irish data protection law.

>if you sign up to Facebook and you're not in the USA or Canada, then you have a legal relationship with Facebook Ireland Ltd, and fall under Irish data protection law.

Facebook can choose to change this, but they won't because they benefit from the double Irish; because that's "where the money is."
There is no substance in this post and it shouldn't be here.

The first post was okay, this one is basically writing for the sake of writing something.
And as soon as Reeder (iOS/Mac), Press (Android), gReader (Android) and whatever Windows people use agree on a common API and all support adding your own server URL, then it will be possible.

The problem is that all of the clients seem to want to hitch up with another free 3rd party service :(
When are they going to publish their protocol, or return support for XMPP federation? Users should avoid them until they do either of those.
Actually, there is a pretty big market for gil. Search on ebay. Or at least there used to be when my brother played.
Yup, tweaks to what they're calling the "Power user menu" Start+x and Display Scaling and of course now you can boot right to the desktop.

http://winsupersite.com/windows-8/hands-windows-81
Like heyitsnick said, that sounds like trap streets and Esquivalience. The thing I always wondered is if these fictitious items weren't actually hurtful to the reputation of the company creating them.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trap_street

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esquivalience
> You're a bit filter bubbled.

And the developed world in general is filter bubbled by the mass media.
Assuming that everything the TSA does is wrong seems to be a much more useful rule of thumb than its reverse.
They are always used as a bogeyman, but relatively few people major in those * Studies programs. The top major is always Business, followed by Psychology. Rounding out the top 5 is usually education, biology and communications.
Hi hn, my sister is in the process of adopting a child which is very expensive! I have been trying to think of ways to help her raise money for the process, and I thought how about a t-shirt campaign?

100% of the proceeds from this teespring campaign will go directly to her and her husband to help with adoption fees. You get a t-shirt, my sister gets some much needed aid! Everybody wins.
I'm sure there are several, though I don't know if there's a comprehensive list. For instance, DPI scaling can now be set per-monitor.
Many years ago, when I did my first steps in Emacs, I wrote Richard a mail asking, why it has such unusual and sometimes awkward keyboard shortcuts. He replied: "For fast and efficient editing."

I like that guy.
Unfortunately, the title is very misleading. I was looking forward to reading about how to "properly" do it.

Website plagiarism is one of the hardest things to prove because the proof can't be design similarity; even though, the website's design is intellectual property and copyrighted. The de facto for website developers has been to include a code in their images and to replace common design elements with company logos (or graphics specific to their organization).

Has the website in question taken graphics and company-specific elements as well? No, they haven't; so, there isn't enough to claim plagiarism. I think both websites are using common layout designs.
Project Spark looks like a fun toy.
How else are they going to keep track of your achievements and integrate with xbox live?
From the article: And, as a result of this leak, it wouldn’t be a surprise to see the malware split into numerous different strains, as rival hacking gangs adapt the code for their own malicious ends.

This is the same "fragmentation" argument often made about Android or Linux or indeed, any open source software.

Has anyone ever checked that this prediction (for malware) ever comes true? I'm just a little bit skeptical of such a sweeping, unsupported argument that also keeps source code hidden from the people affected by it.
Well then I dream of a day when an ecmascript revision makes the breaking changes needed to fix this. Or some sort of clever hack works around that constraint
I would like just a protocol for which I or basically anyone could implement a server and a client, kind of like SMTP and IMAP for email (but as a REST service or something easier)
Opera Software Hit by 'Infrastructure Attack'
With the annoying proliferation of camera phones, I assure you that getting laid is not the only pleasurable leisure activity that seemingly everyone has a nearly instinctive desire to record and watch. I won't declare it cultural because there's enough immigrants representing in my area to prove that it doesn't matter if you're born in Laos, Japan, Mexico, India, or the USA, if the kids do something cute, its a mommie instinct, out comes the smartphone.

Once you have kids you'll see what I mean. Last Monday night you'd think it was a camera technology convention, not a little league baseball game.

For better or worse, its only residual cultural Puritanism that stops my wife from showing everyone a video of when our kids were conceived, much as she has video of seemingly everything else involving them. (including when they were born, and I'm not kidding about that)
SSL Report: duckduckgo.com
Yep, you're correct

http://jsbin.com/odupog/1/edit

Either way, should alleviate some of the privacy concerns, as you can only get ClipboardData from elements where "paste" has a visible effect.
Makes perfect sense for a couple reasons.

Machine learning based anti-fraud systems perform asymptotically better as you get more variety and volume of data, and Sift can market it as such ("our network consists of over X merchants"). The 100 dollars of free service they are giving away is likely worth more to them in the data alone. The biggest credit card fraud solution I know of markets itself as a better solution because of its "consortium" of thousands of card issuers: http://brblog.typepad.com/files/falcon_scoring_srvr_2519ms.p...

This arrangement also lets Sift very naturally eases merchants into being paying customers as they grow.
Someone suggested using TinyTinyRSS + Liferea.
As well as the convergence of tablets/laptops/PC/touch screens.

I gave my folks a touchscreen all-in-one PC and it's surprising how much you will touch the screen once it's available.
As someone at the early beginner levels, this really appeals to me. If you could integrate guided tutorials directly within the system...
I have access to a Mac
What would a free press, more specifically, the LA Times, gain by publishing government propaganda?
It's been quite exciting to see all this activity around functional programming languages that target JavaScript. It's worth comparing both the GHCJS and Fay implementation approach with ClojureScript which has no runtime and ships with a full suite of efficient persistent data structures out of the box. It is also capable today of generating very fast code with little overhead over hand written JS http://swannodette.github.io/2013/06/10/porting-notchs-minec... (and is in fact why the persistent data structures we ship work so well).

For the folks who swear by static typing, I expect core.typed will eventually provide that: http://github.com/clojure/core.typed
Tinder isn't what you think it is
This sounds technically similar to runscope[1] (reverse proxy via the cloud), although they are specifically focused on debugging/testing web APIs.

[1] https://www.runscope.com/
If you're not satisfied with your current sexual experiences, the solution is to explore your own sexuality and find what actually turns you on. If porn helps you achieve that, then that's great.

Obviously you should work on finding a consensual partner that shares your sexual interests, but in the absence of such a partner, I'm not convinced viewing pornography in moderation is destructive.
Or, you know... they could be all great and much needed?
It is telling that I am more excited about Windows 8,1 than iOS 7.
Were you aware of localtunnel "http://progrium.com/localtunnel/" before you started this project? I think it does sort of the same thing. Obviously you have a lot more features than localtunnel does (SSL, HTTP Auth, Raw TCP/UDP tunneling), but it's something to be aware of.
The only scary thing is paying tax on something that has sometimes drastic changes in value.

Taking tax off you, and simultaneously making it impossible to convert bitcoin to dollar seems a bit tricky too. Unless they're happy to accept bitcoin as payment of taxes?
The book that inspired the birth of reddit
"I haven't met a sane smart man who felt threatened by feminism."

Talk to any male who has dealt with a female stalker. All the legal 'protections' put in place and advocated by feminist organizations don't apply to men. If anything they will be the tools used to further abuse.

Sure no one is threatened by the dictionary definition. It's the polices advocated by feminist organizations.
X64 edit and continue, at last!!

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/dotnet/archive/2013/06/26/announcing...
JetBrains ReSharper to support C++ in Visual Studio
Am I the only one who prefers regular gchat to google hangouts? It's super difficult to figure out who on my contact list is online or not. I also mistake old msgs as new ones because of the lack of time-stamps. Maybe I'm missing a check-box or something that could fix all this but I gave up and switched back to gchat almost immediately.
Humans have a superpower called empathy. By watching others experience pleasure, we ourselves can experience that pleasure and people will pay for that.
Hi Aaron,

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Yeah I hoped someone would come up with such a protocol, I myself been writing about that last year already, but sadly 3rd party service it seems to become.
Even if it is fiction it is good one. I'd buy the book.
The pricing seems really odd to me. Beyond the free tier of 1 machine, 400MB RAM, and 1GB storage, the monthly costs are $10/machine, $23/GB RAM, and $28/10 GB storage. The machine and RAM prices seem reasonable, but the disk space price is exorbitant. You're basically paying 1/3 of the price of a 1TB hard drive, monthly, for 10GB of storage. I wonder what the logic is behind making storage so expensive.
Go watch some porn in public.
Out of curiosity, I took a look to last year's inductees, there are also a few famous name in there : Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, Linus Torvalds, and others.
http://www.internethalloffame.org/inductees/2012
I'm not sure claims of extraterritorial jurisdiction by the US really count as unusual in this day and age.
How to make your portfolio stand out
Only if you forget all the financial headlines during August 2008 through 2011.
Oh, I totally agree. I'm merely pointing out that pornography seems to have a special place in the history of media depictions:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_erotic_depictions
Installed on Windows. OK. Presents a login prompt. Accepts no username that exists on the system.

/uninstall
Somewhat cynically: given the Byzantine nature of Microsoft, perhaps there really are 5000 APIs, all created by different groups. :)

More likely they're just sloppily enumerating function endpoints.
That's valid. Remote desktop opens up some interesting attack vectors, whether used by the NSA or just some hacker with malicious intent. There's nothing I can see about security mitigations...
You can boot to desktop, turn of the hot corners, and there's a start button with a nifty right-click menu. So there's something.
I think we could respin this into a meme that could apply to various other topics. I immediately thought of my own deep dark secret which is watching (fully clothed, I assure you) cooking shows on TV. Reads pretty smooth.
I doubt this analogy is perfect. Location/upkeep/convenience are different in the software world, and one of the big problems with Walmart is that they underpay their workers. And whereas mass produced X and artisan X might be different, I don't see any advantage of artisan desktop sharing.

Maybe there is something to soaking up a market (RSS) then dropping it (though it seems the ball is being somewhat picked up there), But, maybe unlike walmart?, there is little reason to believe that was malicious. People (Kevin Rose, for example) were making fun of RSS being super dead in 2011. I am no expert, but I doubt it is a google plus play as much as a twitter defeat. Note: I personally love RSS, but if I was not a tech news junkie, it might be of little use to me.
http://channel9.msdn.com/achievements/visualstudio
This is great news! After instant-upload/auto-backup got my parents hooked on G+, now I can easily provide them with tech support! Solid user conversion practice imo.
Windows 8.1 will finally add high-res display support
As a friendly reminder, you can import your plugins via File > Import > Install > From Existing Installation. The new themes are seriously ugly still, so dont forget to get Eclipse 4 Chrome Theme by Jeeeyul via Marketplace.

Performance is pretty much back to normal. Nice to have Eclipse back.
Speculate much?
Don't know the answer to that one, as I have never asked for a formal background check.
Hands On With Windows 8.1 Preview
I wasn't able to get Liferea to work with TTRSS, and I really tried :-/. Therefor I wrote one myself but it has only the possibility to show posts, no list or anything because I never used that http://jabs.nu/feedthemonkey I assume most of the people will not be comfortable with it.
Not that I've seen, but there is a 30-day free trial, no credit card needed.
People wanted a start menu that didn't take up the whole screen. They just put in a button.

I just want less full screen shit.
ancient "news" by now.
The site is called hacker _NEWS_
:)
I was under the impression that US tax authorities went after American citizens, even if those are dual-citizenship citizens who've never lived or worked in the US.
Sorry, no offense meant to professionals. I was thinking more of random guys who rent a backhoe for the weekend.

And yes, I know about dark fiber. Dark fiber networks don't have traffic but they're still on maps and have warning signs around them. There's a difference between burying fiber without using it and keeping the existence of fiber totally secret.

I guess I don't see how we could have a parallel internet whose existence was unclassified that no one noticed until now.
They don't have to back door your OS. They just tap the fiber backbones.
This brings up an interesting issue with multinationals...
How do you react when you receive compulsory orders in one country of operation that violates laws of another?
Well, sure, but why would you want local mutable state? In some cases it's more efficient to alter transient data in place, but mutability makes it much harder (and usually less efficient) to effectively compose functionality.

I guess Java does make it seem like the opposite is the case; that it's easier to work with mutable data, and that immutability is just a needless restriction. However, in languages with lambdas and higher-level functions, local mutability is rarely required, and becomes a hindrance rather than a help. Just look at how many times "options.dup" turns up in Ruby code: https://github.com/search?q=options.dup&ref=cmdform&type=Cod... . It's an annoying pattern in Ruby to work around the lack of immutable maps in the core language.
Hm. I wonder if it exports G-code, or simply says "Hey, let's write some proprietary drivers! It'll be fun!"

For once--for once--we had a chance to break away from the lowest pit of IT hell: printing.

We could have done something beautiful, we could've made the world a better place--and yet, I fear that Microsoft is now just going to extend the failures of 2D printing into the third dimension, quite literally piling on layers of sadness.
It's pronounced "en-grock".
The interpretation is in the word "seizing." Nothing is taken. It's copied and collected. So does "seizing" mean to collect benignly, or to take possession from another?
I was way off!

Thanks.
Yes and No. I honestly don't believe there are backdoors in SELinux but it still follows the same path of Truecrypt. A lot of privacy advocates are wary of Truecrypt despite being open source because:

1. No one has yet thoroughly audited the source codes. Its too large and complex that it warrants a good amount of time and money.

2. The identity of the founders/maintainers are unknown.

3. The binary offered for download cannot be efficiently verified to the source.

One of the things I have learned is that just because something is closed source, doesn't mean it has a backdoor and just because something is open source it doesn't mean it is secure. Always assume what you din't write is insecure and proceed accordingly.
I don't get it either. There was already a VS2012, and changing to VS2013 for a few months seems like a decision driven by some weird force. Waiting to release for another 3 months would not have killed anyone.
I will be very interested to see how this story develops in the coming days/weeks. Clever of these services, pitting State v. City.
I don't know what theory it's awesome under, but I have to disagree with that. I want titles to describe the content of their page.
Why U.S. is being humiliated by the hunt for Snowden
There is a green bar below the user's picture when they're online.
Opera Security breach stopped
In your opinion they matter.

I'm unconvinced. The majority of people are sharing more about themselves online. Not less.

Outside this niche, people seem pretty uninterested that governments monitor the internet. They pretty much assumed as much.

Stallman is just always swimming against the tide of what people actually want.
You cheeky bastard--to boldly go and all that, I assume?
Quick question if Sift is hanging out in these threads: Why would you use $val arguments in your JSON API? It seems like nearly any other symbol would have been a better choice, since PHP, Ruby, Perl and others use $ in string interpolation.

Yes, developers should be smarter about escaping and using string values, but this seems like a very easy thing to get wrong.
>it was the psychological dependence that crept back into my life when I was stressed. It's that pattern of addictive behavior in response to emotions that is the problem

Very well put. I am no expert in this subject, but it feels to me that the web is taking advantage of this pattern a little too much.

I am not just talking about porn, its social networks, video sites, gaming sites, aggregators all of which are being engineered to optimize for engagement.
Well, Windows 8 probably has the best handling for screen sharing out of any tablet OSes- the whole "snap" functionality is very clever. Not so for desktops, of course.
Only in the web interface, that feature is entirely missing from the Hangouts app that replaced the Google Talk app on Android.
Interesting. Did you try to write a mobile client for Nemo or Sailfish as well?
There are sign-up buttons at the top-right of the page as well as the end of the post that both point to the main website.
> That is indirect, and is consistently ineffective.

And that is moving the goalposts (particularly as to the "indirect" portion), and unsupported (as to the "consistently ineffective".)

The rather special case you assert as an example, whatever merits it might have, clearly doesn't show that it is "consistently" anything.
They seem to be out of stock if you go through the order process. They also don't allow you to purchase one through them.
Yeah, what if Apple force-bundled their maps service on the iPhone and gave it OS-level hooks that no other apps were allowed? We'd all be in upro- oh, wait

EDIT: below was a conversation with rdouble, who decided to delete his entire half of the thread.
I like RMS(even attended one of his talks, was fun) and he has been surprising prescient about many things.

But he still seems to be falling victim to the "Smarter people are more likely to believe in false conspiracy theories" rule.

In his post against Ubuntu's local searches being sent to Amazon, he claimed as-a-matter-of-fact that Windows sends local searches to an internet server and his friend proved so. This may be true in Windows 8.1 but is certainly not true beforehand. I figure that if someone else said something similar about FOSS in the same casual way, RMS himself would characterize(rightly so) it as FUD tactics.

Still, I do think that we need more people like him rather than everyone else who seem to be aligning themselves with some or the other corporate entity and thus lose their moral compass in the process.
There’s an Easter egg in my job posting
> When using the browser as code-editor, we are entering a world of new problems. The browser is designed to abstract away the local file system, and is based upon a read-only/execute-only model. In order to “fix” this we have introduced a new type of browser extensions, that’s trying to fix this.

It isn't really a read-only environment! It can't read anything! All the browser can do is GET and POST things...

...so maybe the problem with web development is that it is all based on files?
This guy needs to stay late and do his own job. Any company can claim they are a startup and squeeze their employees for all of their time, but that does not make it worthwhile.

I, personally, refuse to work extra hours. I've burnt too many years with too little pay to do it ever again. If I cannot do it in the time allotted. I will get a good night's sleep and go at it hard the next day.
Obamacare Challenge: Getting Young Workers to Buy Insurance
I don't understand how any of these items could be okay with snapchat:

1. You are keeping chats that are meant to be ephemeral
2. You are acting as a snapchat client to create an API where there should not be one.
3. You are basically spamming users on snapchat to get them to add you.
How did you type this?
What are the chances that CS would be open to publicly offering their schematics and blueprints for the open-source community?
"Saying that cocaine isn't addictive would be a strange definition of addiction."

Yes, I was wrong about that, as apparently there are withdrawal symptoms with cocaine.
It seems he isn't due to die until 5 months from now... ah nevermind they fixed the date.
You should really start a new thread for this rather than posting off-topic on an existing thread.
Am I the only one surprised that it took such a long time for them to do this?

How did Jimmy Wales got there before Stallman, using an ideology that was pretty much ushered by Stallman as Guerrilla Warfare?

I know that Stallman has his fair share of quirks, who doesn't? But I believe in today's world, he is more of a forgotten hero, whose "quriks" get highlighted more than his long list of achievements and just for inspiring people to join the bandwagon of open source coding.
Is localtunnel.me the same thing as localtunnel.com, just with npm instead of a rubygem?
> Trisecting the angle: Dividing a given angle into three smaller angles all of the same size.

Unless you allow an infinite number of steps. The limit of the series 1/2 - 1/4 + 1/8 - 1/16... is 1/3 so you can get to it by repeatedly bisecting angles.

Your paper will look quite messy after an infinite number of steps however.