skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I disagree. To "shit on their mothers" would actually motivate those who are placated and apathetic to act and mobilize. In my mind, only very few persons would take to the streets and sacrifice their livelihoods and personal convenience for abstract ideas and principles. Case in point, Edward Snowden.

Until the effects of corruption has reached, in a literal sense, the doors of most Americans, we might see citizens act and begin to stand for abstract ideas such as privacy, due process, etc. But I think they would only continue until it becomes most inconvenient for them.

I guess this is a cynical way of looking at people but maybe I'm not in a good state of mind at the moment.
Is it worse for the survivors to be able to talk with a person facing certain death, or is it better to just find out that the person died?
Marvellous idea ! :)
You use a major provider. Providers that have the resources to defend against almost any attack. I trust Route53, Dyn, and Cloudflare. You can also use your registrar (but that often has limitations).
Three clues to spot free riders
Nobody wants to use a standalone client on a PC, if that's what you are suggesting.

I do. Am I the only one who finds web-based email clients insufferably slow?
fascinating. a definite counterargument to the kipling quote.
Southwest Airlines grounds flights due to computer outage
Spyware claims emerge in row over Chinese dissident at NYU
I will take out the popcorn and enjoy how this will go down. I think that we will hear a lot of angry screaming in German in a month when the traffic is decimated.

And I wonder why google has just not sent the publishers a letter "Hey, - there is the meta noindex, nofollow and we also honor robots.txt, just put them on the frakking sites."
That steak eating guy in the Matrix, right?
What about Makemytrip, Naukri/Infoedge, Inmobi or Slideshare?
:!program executes an external program, but you can also open a shell with :sh
I think I like the sound of the Taxibot over installing electric engines which weight 660 lbs on the wheels. It's like a Roomba for push backs :-)

I assume the bot autonomously 'docks' with the plane, then the pilot takes over control and pushes back. Then the bot autonomously returns back to its docking station by the jet bridge.

I suppose a single bot could do push backs for 3 or 4 neighboring jets, if they're just doing the push back. If it's taxing the jet all the way down the runway, I guess it's more of a 1:1 ratio, and probably a lot more complicated to work the returning units into ground traffic control, to the point where you need to work it into the overall airport design?
Thoughts on Instavideos
Efficiency of code execution
Identifying emotions based on brain activity and machine-learning techniques
Will the metro officials do what he is doing, at their cost?
Room for growth: Viagra patent ends
Yes

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-comput...
Implementing secondary DNS servers is essential, and has kept our primary site up and running.

That said, it is UNFORGIVABLE (imo) that Zerigo failed to send ANY type of notification to its DNS customers... they have apparently been having ddos trouble for about 24 hours.

afaik they do not offer any type of text or email alerts when they are experiencing trouble (such as the SMS messages I get from Heroku).

So, while I like their tools, and the ddos hasn't affected our website that have secondary DNS, we will "walk" to another provider that cares enough about their customers to offer proactive alerts.
The charges against Ellsberg were dropped when it became public that the government had spied on Ellsberg by wiretapping Ellsberg's psychiatric visits.

So maybe all Snowden has to do is to show the government spying on him. Which would be kind of meta, as it would put the government on trial for PRISM itself, while probably acquitting Snowden
The Only Winning Move...
Pinyin: "Datong".
> Nobody wants to use a standalone client on a PC

What if your standalone client is a website running on your local box with an interface similar to gmail?

> In other words, this will be a long slog where most of the work is product-oriented and feature Xerox'ing, and not whiz-bang cool encryption oriented.

Yes, you're right. The crypto itself isn't that complicated.
Man I always underestimate the reach and extent of software, especially in enterprise. It really is everywhere.

As an aside, does anyone know if such things like ticketing systems are developed in house or are outsourced to places like, say, IBM?
> This should be open source software as there needs to be security reviews and what not.

It will be open source.
I recently switched to Emacs and started learning it by going through the tutorial (C-h t). Near the end of the tutorial, it refers you to the Emacs manual which uses info (C-h r). After going to the manual I had no idea how to navigate, so I ran the info tutorial (h). I don't really have a point, but I think it's funny that I had to run the a tutorial to get help.
I was excited to see that maybe something new was discovered but this article is just useless, just filler words.
We run our own owned+operated DNS with Dynect as secondary. Couldn't be happier.
A list of front end development resources
You jest but Playboy used to have some of the best interviews ever conducted.
How mobile phones are making cash obsolete in Africa
I've never taken a law class, but I've read and understood many, many statutes and contracts. I'm sure you could too.

Does that mean all legal drafting is clear? No. But much of it is sufficiently clear for a literate person to understand. By way of example, I've chosen a passage from the Illinois criminal code, more or less at random:

"Theft of property not from the person and not exceeding $500 in value is a Class 4 felony if the theft was committed in a school or place of worship or if the theft was of governmental property."

This is a typical example of legalese. It bakes several conditions into one sentence: 1) not from the person, 2) value under $500, 3) in a school, 4) in a place of worship, 5) on government property. Most legal writing I've encountered is at roughly this level of complexity.

Certainly, there's a lot of logic packed into that one sentence. There's much more to parse out than there is in a typical newspaper sentence. But I'm willing to bet most people can read that law and understand what it means. (Not that you'd necessarily know what a Class 4 felony is. But you'd know some of the circumstances under which a theft qualifies as one.)
I think donating a dollar for a custom visitor counter would be the perfect option... doesn't really set apart anyone, still provides a bit of fun.
Why Facebook is 'cloning' ideas
The answer only would have been "yes" until you demonstrated that you actually needed to ask. Being timid and insecure destroys attraction and respect. The world would be a lot better if we didn't work that way, but we do.
Debugging obscure Postgres problems with strace
I love that the OP brought up FreeSWITCH because this is one example where I believe it's most troubling for package maintainers, software engineers and system implementers alike. From a software engineer's perspective, including 3rd party libraries in one source tree it transfers the burden of maintenance and support to one project maintainer. Not reinventing the wheel is good and all, but you still have to maintain its integrity.

From a package maintainer's perspective, especially in the case of Debian, they must ensure that packages are stable and secure. It's their job to make sure security updates are released. In the case of FreeSWITCH, there's no distinction between the main source and its dependencies. Package maintainers might as well not bother with including software like FreeSWITCH in their repos or risk the integrity of their system.

System implementer's are mostly ambivalent about these issues until their distro's FreeSWITCH package includes broken dependencies or until their FreeSWITCH installation has a security exploit due to a library that can't be patched independently.

I love FreeSWITCH but I'm sorry to say that it's poorly architected. However, I'm a system implementer, so I don't care.
You'll get sued:
http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2007-08-17...
The cycler station is an interesting idea. Seems to me you'd still have to accelerate the crew and supplies to an Earth-Mars orbit every time, but the habitat would only have to be accelerated to that orbit once.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_cycler
Gnome-keyring doesn't have many dependencies, so you can run it with any desktop environment or window manager. Recent versions of Xfce have built-in support for loading it at login. It also integrates nicely with GPG, SSH, and network-manager. I'm not sure about KWallet.
hey, non-US citizen here. assuming you're a US citizen based on your "outrage".

the point of your defence budget (how large is it again) is to project power through the military and intelligence services.

it is ASTOUNDING that only now you seem to have realized what the US intelligennce apparatus is doing. of course they are collecting all the data, they are basically replicating google to be able to search within digital data. maybe only on foreigners, but what kind of stupid distinction is that? we have a found an al-kaida member, but he is US so hands off?

welcome to the rest of the world. ever travelled? your data is one of many intelligence databases.

i am human being, but somehow it is ok for you to spend gobs of money on monitoring ME, but once you realize it might affect YOU you suddenly get "outraged".

seriously, what DID you THINK all those intelligence services with multi-billion budgets were DOING?

looking forward to the protest by US neckbeards around the country. hope time-warner produces enough guy fawkes masks, should raise the price too. USA USA USA.
Humm so the article is a long text with language structure but without a message... humm....
When local governments didn't have such capabilities, most people ignored these regulations because those had a practically insignificant effect on their lives. But when the local governments get this capability, all those ignored regulations will suddenly become significant. And also, all new subsequent regulations will have strong public focus.

While people ignore regulations which have very little practical harm in being ignored, they also ignore some which later turn out to be very harmful.
See near the end of:
http://dohanews.co/post/53425474389/five-villaggio-trial-def...
False dichotomy---bundling dependencies doesn't preclude integrating well with the host system. See Basho's latest Riak package for Ubuntu 12.04:

http://s3.amazonaws.com/downloads.basho.com/riak/1.3/1.3.2/u...

It integrates well with the host system (init script, "riak" user/group, data in /var/lib/riak, logs in /var/log/riak, etc.) and bundles dependencies in /usr/lib/riak.

In my experience, bundling dependencies is often the only practical way to install a complex app. Take Sentry as another example:

https://github.com/getsentry/sentry

The current version (5.4.5) depends on 37 Python packages:

BeautifulSoup==3.2.1
Django==1.4.5
Pygments==1.6
South==0.7.6
amqp==1.0.11
anyjson==0.3.3
billiard==2.7.3.28
celery==3.0.19
cssutils==0.9.10
distribute==0.6.31
django-celery==3.0.17
django-crispy-forms==1.2.8
django-indexer==0.3.0
django-paging==0.2.5
django-picklefield==0.3.0
django-social-auth==0.7.23
django-social-auth-trello==1.0.3
django-static-compiler==0.3.3
django-templatetag-sugar==0.1
gunicorn==0.17.4
httpagentparser==1.2.2
httplib2==0.8
kombu==2.5.10
logan==0.5.6
nydus==0.10.6
oauth2==1.5.211
pynliner==0.4.0
python-dateutil==1.5
python-openid==2.2.5
pytz==2013b
raven==3.3.11
redis==2.7.6
sentry==5.4.5
setproctitle==1.1.7
simplejson==3.1.3
six==1.3.0
wsgiref==0.1.2

Ruby or Node apps have dependency trees of similar or greater size. It takes an enormous amount of effort to roll all of these as individual packages (yes, I've done it) and it's a colossal waste of time once you realize you can have a working package in under a minute with virtualenv, pip, and fpm:

$ virtualenv --distribute /opt/sentry
$ /opt/sentry/bin/pip install sentry
$ fpm -n sentry -v 5.4.5 -s dir -t deb /opt/sentry
Professor Langley didn't borrow $trillions and expect future generations to pay it back with interest.
"Around the world in 80 days" is a well-known title, it's not impossible to comes up with using the same title for "job" related topic.
It's not that encrypted information is itself suspicious. If a communication is encrypted, the NSA simply can't tell if it's a legitimate foreign target intercept or some inadvertently picked up communication until the NSA is finally able to decrypt it. Were it not so, foreign targets could evade the NSA by encrypting their traffic and making it appear that it might be domestic material (for example, routing it though domestic email accounts), forcing the NSA to discard it.

Just as security researchers look for every possible loophole when creating attack scenarios, so the authors of NSA regulations seek to close any possible loophole a target could use to evade intercept. The NSA has to assume that its internal rules will eventually be leaked (as has just occurred) and used against it by a foreign enemy.
Where can I find specifics on the actual methods they are using to research the manuscript?
I think it's alien.
The charges are sealed.
A cashless society is one of three things that I have been waiting a quarter century to see happen. The other two are driverless cars and pocket instant translators.

It is frustrating to see that Africans are ahead of us in this area. When I worked at MSU they had a thing called Spartan Cash http://www.spartancash.com/ . I wanted them to make it a region-wide substitute for cash even if you weren't a student but there wasn't any interest.
More than likely outsourced, but probably not from places like IBM. I recall there was a rental car company that used Unisys systems and I believe all custom software.
Honestly I've tried most of the popular DNS providers (DNSMadeSimple, DynDNS, etc), but nothing lets me and my team sleep tighter at night than Route53. If a DDos is successful in taking down Amazon Route53, then we have bigger issues to worry about. Plus, Route53 is dirt cheap, its a no brainer.
Protect your IP: Cautionary startup tale of Goliath vs David
In the US, fuel pumps meant for regular sized cars (not trucks, boats, planes, etc) are limited to 10 gallons/minute. If that pump really was that fast, then it really was (among) the fastest legal pump(s) in the area.

http://www.epa.gov/otaq/regs/ld-hwy/evap/spitback.txt
The blog says the fix was made in the DYI tool. That means they would continue to maintain "shadow profiles", but would stop letting others know that FB has a shadow profile on you. Al these blog posts and notification emails are just a PR propaganda to make gullible users believe that FB cares about their privacy.
But passwords are already available in plaintext. This fact alone means that passwords are not exactly hidden from the logged in user.

As an analogy, say you have a house and you have a drawer where you keep all your secret information. If you really want to keep the information secret, then you shouldn't allow outside visitors inside your house. You could encrypt the secret information to make it difficult for the attacker to read the information. But he still has access to your drawer because you let him into your house.
The attacker can install a remote camera near your drawer to see how you decrypt the information, or he can directly see the decrypted plaintext.

So, don't allow anyone into you house.
The two big problems the Luftwaffe had were their pilots got killed off and could not be replaced, and they could not get fuel.

The Allied bombing of the fuel supply was very effective.

The Allied bomber forces suffered terrible losses, but there were plenty of replacements and fuel.
I would really hate to be the developer/sysadmin who potentially struck the fatal blow to their system(s). Its one thing in a business if people can't get email/work with some crm type tool. Its another thing entirely when thousands of people are stranded at airports.

Good luck to those poor souls working triage right now. Even if it wasn't you're fault they are gonna have someones head.
I believe since he stole the laptops from his employer there, they can charge him there. At least, this theory may explain why that bogus little charge was included.
Bush-Era Whistleblower Claims NSA Ordered Wiretap Of Barack Obama In 2004
Die. Lose to a competitor that is based in a free country and/or offers a paid service and therefore does not need access to the entirety of people's data to serve ads.
I believe Southwest uses a system called SAAS, which they call "a Sabre Product" though it is actually based on the old Braniff Cowboy system and modified in-house. I remember talk of them switching to Sabre proper, but it's been years since I've been in that industry. Sabre I believe was made by some IBM engineers originally.

Some Relevant Links if you want to dig in, working with these systems was a lot of fun (I worked at several airlines):

Sabre: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabre_(computer_system)

Global Distribution System: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_distribution_system

Sabre Company site: http://www.sabreairlinesolutions.com/home/
No, that's not what the NSA is saying. The regulations only apply to material inadvertently collected while targeting a specific foreign target (who, presumably, might be routing their traffic through the U.S. to evade surveillance). If the information is encrypted, the NSA doesn't know if it's real domestic communications, or foreign communications, until it can be decrypted, so it's kept until it can be decrypted. Otherwise, a foreign target would easily be able to evade intercept simply by making their traffic appear to be domestic.
You'll get the current prices if you open your account and activate it before July 1st. Even if you're in the trialing period when the price changes, you'll still remain on the current pricing plan (until you change plans).
Usually they are a group of specialiced programs, systems and services like amadeus (reservations) , carmen( crew programing) , that have to be costumiced for each company.
I would not worry too much on that score - I managed to read your blog post and have three chunks mailed off to people with "OMG this bit .." and, oh yes, decided I need to be building products first in order to sell around them.

You have an exciting idea per paragraph ratio higher than anything since pg in the early days - you are hirin your stride about now

(Ok that does sound a bit brown tongue - but it's honest so apologies all round)
Users can navigate menus. But given the out-of-the-way location of the "Use a master password" checkbox, what percentage of Firefox's users even know of it's existence? It's likely pretty low.
It could perhaps be worse, either because it makes 100,000 people (or however many) think "well I've done by part now!" so they become complacent, or because the administration thinks "well they've got it off their chest with a petition, that will keep them away from doing anything stronger so let's keep going with what we were doing".

Definitely subjective, though.
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Your web pages with fixed width of 800px may be fairly annoying to users with high-DPI displays. Mac Retina displays are perhaps the most recent and well known, but for years some people have had displays with DPI 50-200% higher than "normal", and for these people, your 800px decision looks like handcuffs. If you look back a dozen years you'll see a number of sites that instituted fixed-pixel-width layouts, then abandoned the approach as people bought more large, high-res displays.

P.S.: Yes, some operating systems and browsers now zoom in a way that this doesn't matter so much, but not all, and not without downsides.
Another perspective is that the rules of war are different from the rules of Main Street, USA. The NSA is on a continual war footing. Its job is to help defend the United States from its enemies. Until war (and terrorism) is abolished, there will always be behaviors which are allowed in war but not in peacetime. For example, warrants are not needed to kill a soldier on the battlefield, nor to search them.
If it's any consolation, often in these sort of large scale outages at least part of the cause is management pushing back on recommendations by the IT staff.
G+ allows others to email you without knowing the email address
This page has some info:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjourna...
I worked for Southwest as recently as last year.

In the industry, ALL reservation and ticketing systems are written by specialists. The major players are Sabre ( think IBM ) / Navitaire / ITA ( which was bought by Google not too long ago ). Southwest is a great company, and they pay well, but their engineering staff is made up of the neckbeard brigade . . . lots of guys in their 50s that have either retired before retiring, or finally decided to learn this new fangled "java" language and move on from C and COBOL. There is simply not the engineering skill, nor the organizational will, to develop anything that complex in house. They tried once about 5 years ago and after 4 months it exploded in a ball of flames because they couldn't solve the the throughput issue.

This outage was almost certainly a Sabre issue. The reservation system itself runs on old school IBM big iron written in C. The system is so damn old that when you go southwest.com, all the information retrieved is done via screen scraping. Not XML, not JSON, not even CORBA. The key point is when the spokesman describes the "weight" of the airplane, something that is calculated by the system according to how many people checked in, how much luggage, etc. Without the system up and running, the flight cannot be "closed" and therefore tracked properly.

Southwest hosts all of their own in house applications ( except for a few things on GCE ), but the Sabre system is run out of some nuclear proof bomb shelter in Tulsa. It goes down 1 ~ 2 a year, but typically it's only out for 10-15 minutes. For planes to be called back to the gate, the outage would have had to have been over 60 minutes, as that's how long they buffer in a separate system in case it does go down.

Finally, Southwest pays Sabre by . . . wait for it, requests executed per second.
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Well it is officially SIGAD US-984XN, so by its own definition it intercepts signals-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SIGINT_Activity_Designator

It is not just an interface. The NSA is collecting data and using secret courts. The programs are clearly unconstitutional. If they are needed and the people want them, let's pass a Constitutional amendment. That's how it's supposed to work.
Strangely, there's probably a huge amount of people who would love nothing more than to have all of that attention and then die on mars with everyone watching.

Mars does have a risk that the early settlers didn't have though, which is an instantaneous death of the entire community due to some type of life support system failure. That would be extremely heartbreaking.
The problem isn't with minimum versions, the problem is with maximum versions, which are potentially unknown at the time a project is released, i.e. the code works with the latest real ease of a library, but a future release of the library may break the project.

The only real way to avoid that is for a project to include a bunch of compliance tests, that validate that an underlying library correctly performs the operations the project needs it to do. But this is actually a lot of work, so in reality it will almost never be done. Which leads us back to the discussion about the wisdom of packagers changing libs without understanding the on downstream projects.
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