skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I would hope that such a security system also generates noise in the keyword index so that there is plausible deniability built in just like there is with TrueCrypt and fake/hidden partitions.
I wonder how much of this news has resulted in an entirely new cohort of software engineers applying for jobs with these companies? I'd bet the HR departments at places like Booz are extra busy right now.
Related, but for the same reasons, you could also write classic ASP using JavaScript (as opposed to VBScript). Years ago, I spent months trying to convince my team to let me use JavaScript instead of VBScript in our ASP files.
Also, the password is limited to 16 chars.
I can see that too. iTunes I think has an implied meaning. It was (arguably) revolutionary and is way more than a "store front". It was a way to really integrate iPods with software to make them seamlessly integrate with the OS. Now, today it is a lot more.

Like I said I read it differently that what the OP meant to imply perhaps. Maybe if OP has said "ITunes Store Front for 3D Printing"
or "mixed" ;) - good points, I will update it to showcase that feature. It's amazing.
Some caveats to point out:

* Round 6 does not yet use SQL Server. A contributor has provided SQL Server test implementations, but we don't expect to include that until Round ~7 because it will still require some additional work. It is conceivable that the .NET MySQL driver is especially poor.

* We do not yet have a test that is expressly heavy computation with no database connectivity. I suspect that C# and .NET would perform reasonably well on such a test (isolating it from its database connectivity).

* We do not yet have Windows i7 tests. But performance would likely scale about the same as seen between Linux EC2 to Linux i7.

All that said, it's also possible that the ASP.NET implementations of our tests could benefit from additional tuning. We have had a couple subject matter experts give contributions but we'd be happy to receive more.
Obama spoke loudly against illegal surveillance as a candidate, and it's one of the reasons I supported him. Obviously, just voting on this issue is insufficient.
That comment reminded me of the Microsoft ad video targeted at web devs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lD9FAOPBiDk&hd=1

Interesting and funny video, regardless of if you think anything changed.
[PTVS project lead]

Yup, try PyCharm, PyDev, Wing, Komodo, Spyder, ... I did a comparison last year (which I can't unfortunately share :( I can ask) -- bottom line, all pretty darn good, each has its strengths and weaknesses. Take away: it's a great time to be a Python dev on Windows (finally?).

WRT to PTVS itself, the key feature is being VS based; the mixed-mode debug for example takes advantage of support in VS. But at the same time, if you're looking for a cross-platform, very very very lightweight tool, this isn't the IDE you're looking for.
I've never used Enigmail with Thunderbird, but it's the commonly recommended GUI implementation for Linux. Enigmail has a setting in the preferences to "Add my own key to the recipients list", which will let you decrypt your own sent messages.
This will be solved using big data, and it will be free not subscription. Working on it right now.
I love when a site asks me to write code that works when its own code doesn't.

Unknown error.
I wouldn't be surprised if there's some kind of incestuous guild of business partners/software developers that flow between each organization (eg: ex-gov employees working for Palantir/Facebook/etc, vice versa).
Thanks for reply Jerry. That's sound interesting for setting an initial price. It is possible to keep that type of process going so that you can monitor if the price point is right?
and to top it all off, you're disqualified from joining the force if you score TOO HIGH on the test - it happened to a good friend of mine. smh.
I'd like to see Kucinich and Paul run as a ticket, with a promise that they'll only be active on the things they agree on...
I guess you need to change the Hardware to "Win" to see it shining.
Ballmer will run the whole company by himself eventually, only so there's no one else that could replace him.
Also experiencing both issues. I'm curious how some people have got onto #2 already-- maybe it's looking for a specific solution rather than a valid one
Sure. But really, I meant why does the NSA or other orgs need to do everything up to the letter of the law (regardless of the suggestion that they went beyond the law)? Just because the speed limit is 70, doesn't mean you have to go 70.
AFAIK the easiest way to defeat bills like this is to bring it to the attention of the NRA. Just say that it can be used to build up a national database of gun owners. Gun rights proponents are typically OK with states doing this but are very wary of federal efforts to register arms.
Is Amazon's "Frequently bought Together
You surely could, although since the hashes are unpredictable to an attacker (due to the secret hashing key) I don't know why it'd matter, except possibly for traffic analysis.
I said this below and was down voted for it. I think the OP has an interesting idea. I think just the choice of language comparison is what is throwing me.
How are you proofreading your copy? I'd hate for an error to result in Seventh Day Advent Hoppists[1].

[1] http://reddwarf.wikia.com/wiki/Seventh_Day_Advent_Hoppists
Am I the only one who thinks this is stupid beyond any reasonable limit?
If You Were a Web Application
IANAL, but most legal systems hold people liable for the law at the time in question, not the law right now.
I find that a little odd, as my mid-2008 macbook seems to run VS2012 pretty smoothly even through parallels. I have to wonder what else you might be running simultaneously.
Congrats Jayant - excited!
> the really cool thing about ZFS is that you can build a "base jail" then just use ZFS to make snapshots of the base jail when creating new jails

btrfs also supports this, and that support is built into some LXC commands (lxc-clone, for instance.) Docker just relies on filesystem overlays and bind-mounts instead, though, so it doesn't really have need for full persisted-to-disk subtrees of the instantiated version (it's more like it holds the base version and the persisted delta on disk, and only brings them together in memory.)
HTC confirms One S will no longer receive Android updates
You're incorrect. And technically speaking the browser wasn't integrated with the OS (and never was), it was the rendering engine (shdocvw.dll and mshtml.dll). The Windows UI featured HTML elements that the OS rendered via this. The rendering engine is not itself connected to any TCP/IP stack, so remote exploits are impossible. But ofcource if you went to web sites with malicious HTML you could get ownzored because of bugs in the rendering engine.

Also you could delete the browser (iexplore.exe) but not the engine as the OS relied on certain UI elements that used this engine. Ofcource if you went ahead and deleted the DLLs anyway, you could make the OS work without the added HTML UI layer (as the judge in the MS antitrust case demonstrated). One could argue that this wasn't the "full" Windows experience but hey.. all that is water under the bridge now. The case is resolved and MS got slapped with a hefty fine.
What about voting "them" - that is, supporters in both parties - out in the primaries?
Aside from the code tester not working properly, their branding and design are ignorant and overzealous.

"Katas"? an Ensō? It's code, chill out.
>Let us take it as a given that there really is a stereotype

>the putative damage is itself illusory

>My opinion doesn't really fit on this axis at all either way.

lmao. here's a quote for you:

“It was, of course, nothing more than sexism, the especially virulent type espoused by male techies who sincerely believe that they are too smart to be sexists.”

― Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash
Being a Startup Chef
Office 2013's HTML export and IE10
One of downsides of AWS is the bandwidth cost. It's 5x to 10x more expensive. Running heavy media based websites is just not feasible.
Which was thoroughly debunked:
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2011/08/blog-debun...

We also rarely never see 360 degree rotating objects in animals, which is why hearts pump instead of containing rotating impellers, like newer artificial heart designs:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/technology-blog/artificial-heart...
This was shoreditch. Don't forget between city road and shoreditch is one of the worst estates in London. You must have been lucky but we had constant problems 2-3 times a week.

Sold up and bought a nice place in Strawberry Hill for the same money and am awarded with peace and quiet and literally zero crime and antisocial behaviour. Everyone is either financial and/or tech, legal or medical as well.
I think you're making a bit much of my last sentence.

All you had to say was, "My logic actually doesn't reduce to that, because I think everybody has a right to dispose of public property as they wish, but not private property." (Or something like that. Is that what you think?)

I mean, when I said "Under your logic...," I'm just extending your argument in the obvious way, and expecting you to tell me how you extend it differently. I am not presuming to actually know exactly what and how you think, that would be ridiculous.

As for misinterpreting or narrowly interpreting the First Amendment, I don't see how you get that.
There's a gentle danger with this kind of science myth that people just accept it because "science is cool".

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1688324)

(https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5822301)

Ferrous Oxide is not only plentiful, but acts as a fungicide. (http://home.howstuffworks.com/question635.htm)(http://www.gr...
Thanks for continuing to do these. As far as I know, no one else is doing something like this in such a comprehensive way.
Hmm, very interesting!

> The tools to do this simply don't currently exist, but GnuNet has developed an approach to convergent encryption of keywords which points to how one might implement this in an email system.

What you describe sounds a lot like "fully homomorphic encryption" (given my pretty amateur understanding of that term). Is the technique you describe one that could be layered on top of PGP? Or does it need an entirely different crypto scheme?
My first thought was that this is the middle-ages equivalent to comments I sometimes leave in code.

/* So this is where it gets dumb. */

// Really dumb one-time override for this asset
Are you visiting websites containing the Flash Player plugin? If so, try killing the plugin-container process. Flash continually gets less stable and Firefox can only do so much to compensate when the plugin hangs (plugins are intentionally allowed to insert themselves into the message loop, which makes it possible for them to hang a browser)
Nice, haven't touched ruby in awhile but glad it's not just me. I was worried when I couldn't troubleshoot a simple multiply function:

def multiply(a b)

a*b

end
and, importantly, check what software you do run. It's only happenstance that the article author found out what was being sent back.
i would really like to see how CFML engines (Railo, Adobe ColdFusion) and frameworks (FW/1, CFWheels, ColdBox) stack up in this comparison.

FD: I contribute to CFWheels
I'd disagree on your conclusion in paragraph 2 for the following reason: it's not that there is damage done to women's mathematical abilities, it's that there is damage done to their psyches. That damage can be wiped away by "changing identity" because they can perform honestly without messing up their position in society. We can surmise that there is some adaptive reason women don't perform as well under their own names, and from that conclude that there may be difficult-to-see benefits to "playing dumb" if you're female.

Discrimination is no longer the scary evil force you seem to think it is. It's the pause that precedes the quick end of the conversation after you say you're a mathematician (female or male), it's the changing of the rules by which you evaluate someone depending on whether they are male or female, it's the slight cognitive dissonance that leads someone not to talk to a black physicist quite as long (what am I supposed to say?!)... that subtle social cue that you're not what you are supposed to be. People on the street, at the bank, at the library are just plain nicer to me when I'm performing the pretty female role and are just plain not nicer, or ignore me, when I'm looking ugly or smart. Is it so far to stretch that I might perform better on that math test when I don't have to own it and put my name on it? There is no cost when it's not my name.
Well done to you guys. This is a very good idea. I can see many potential extensions and applications. I was asking myself if this would have been as cool had this been just an LCD screen? Does this look cool because there is something exciting about manipulating a physical object with a simple digital signal? Is it the simplicity of this counter? I can't put my finger on it, but it certainly looks very cool to me :-)
I would love to understand the philosophy that drove you to create this - if you can share. Because, you are on to something! :)
I have shared this link with a friend and a cousin, both of them run their own store. Maybe you will hear from them soon.
If you are interested in bringing this to new markets (e.g. India/SE Asia), drop me a note - maybe I can help.

I have to say it again - very well done :)
Releases – a workflow for shipping software to end users
> On issues like this one, where party positions seem to depend only on whether it's their guy doing it, I'm not sure what the appropriate strategy is.

It requires looking beyond voting. The only reason issues like you describe exist is because there isn't a sufficiently strong committed electoral constituency around the issue that will vote, run primary challengers, and provide money and boots on the ground for campaign operations around the issue, so that it just becomes a tactical issue of convenience to the major parties.

Voting behavior, alone, isn't going to do anything to change that. Voting is important in a democracy, but it isn't the only -- or even the most important -- form of political participation.
Do you have specific examples? This is an area of interest for me. VS architecturally has a lot of things tied to the UI thread due to COM STA requirements (well, that and the fact that historically people created their STA objects on the UI thread, thus tying them to the UI thread).

Another possible cause can be extensions. Not that VS doesn't have its own problems of 'doing too much work on the UI thread', but there are TONS of callback points that third parties can hook into, and lots of times people do very ill-advised things on the UI thread, leading to poor responsiveness.

We monitor it actively (via PerfWatson[0], you should install it if you want your perf problems brought to the attention of Microsoft, it should have low overhead at runtime, only kicking in when the UI thread is already unresponsive), but of course with a product as large and complex as VS, and with said product being extensible, inevitably customers run into stuff we never see internally, so we rely on getting repros/data from them to understand what is going wrong.

[0] http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/fa85b17d-3df2-...
I do most GIS viz through the browser (client-side scripting + PostGIS + ad hoc servers). Took a while to get up to speed, but it feels so good being able to scale projects quickly and not rely on Esri.

As for math, I generally keep it on the command-line.
the problem will be that people you interact with use Google or MS products, then the data leakage happens on their side of the conversation.
My hard drives of less then a decade ago are already unreadable, but my code is still around.
CNN becomes Court TV
The toppling of a government only deserves a small picture-in-picture on the screen because CNN is now your 24/7 source for Court TV, along with their outstanding panels of legal experts and trial insights, they continue to give the rest of the world the impression that Americans only care about themselves.

https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-op8549S2ncQ/UdMXSBYPdQI/AAAAAAAAAE8/THyS32_ZGDM/w749-h422-no/WP_20130702_001.jpg
I fixed the code, click submit. nothing happens?
Fluokitten - Category Theory in Idiomatic Clojure
Voter turnout for primaries is usually really, really low. You don't need to convince half of those who do vote; if you just convince 1/4 of those who could vote but don't, you can dominate the primaries.

Not that this is easy, but it's another option.
So why is computer programming such a male profession today, seeing as it requires attention to detail, language skills, and ability to sit and type rather than strength or aggression?
I started my career as a developer by learning PHP over a decade ago, it's still the language I know best, and I was even Zend certified at one point, but I don't describe myself as a "PHP dev," and neither should you. You're a developer, and most of your experience is in PHP. It's a subtle, but important difference.

I'm going to advise you to diversify your skillset, but first, if you really want to stay within the PHP world, find an agency (or start your own) that does a lot of work with either Drupal or Wordpress. They're not corporate, and there are plenty of them.

If you really want to get "unstuck," learn something new. Here's what you're going to do: find a hackathon that takes place a month from now (see http://www.hackathon.io/ or ask Uncle Google), and register for it. Then spend the next month learning Android, AngularJS, Backbone.js, Python, Rails, or whatever your hackathon is based on, and then go to the event and use it.

Given that you already have a job as a developer, there's no reason for you to be unemployable, ever. If you have a corporate job now, I have a hard time imagining that you don't have some slack in your day that you could devote to trying out Android or AngularJS, as julianpye suggested; or Backbone.js, or Python, or Rails, or whatever. If you can't find the time at work, throw your TV off the roof of your house/apartment building and spend an hour or two on it at night.

Come back next month and if you're still stuck, post again and we'll talk. (But I'm pretty sure you won't be stuck.)
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New York City Launches .nyc Domain Names
The advice I got on the debian-users list for this particular issue was: use the "encrypt-to" option in your ~/.gnupg/gpg.conf, e.g. for me:

# encrypt to me as well
encrypt-to CF6FA646

This adds your own key as one of the recipients whenever GPG encrypts a message.
That's what I figured, too. No wonder this article is so appropriate for this site, it echoes the mundane pains of today's code-scribes.
def multiply(a, b)

a*b

end

note the comma in params
Steve Ballmer Taking Over As Xbox One Chief
That's a specious argument. It's pretty easy to see that CEO pay (the entire pay package, not just salary) is often closely tied to corporate profits, often in ways that incentivise short term gains over longer term strategic planning.
Sorry, but the SMS generation is more likely to search for your brand than use a QR code. And since this is a display, you won't always be able to reach it to tap for NFC.

Just show the Facebook URL of the store.
"I wonder how much I can trust Facebook now."

Just now?
I imagine these monks would be horrified at the rate that we produce frivolous text today.

We have notes like these scribbled all over our social networks. Some are entertaining, but I wonder how much of our "written" word will be deemed fit to preserve for reasons other than data analysis.
They sent a notification email to every customer asking them to change their password. The email includes the user's current password.

I know this because I received such an email-- intended for someone else who accidentally used my email address for their account. So not only is Ubisoft storing raw passwords and sending them via email, they're not verifying email addresses during account creation.
A Marketers Guide To Link Bait - How to Use It to Bring Eyeballs to Your Site
The Facebook page should also be mentioned on the receipt
All of these would be suitable as tweets. Manuscript margins are to Medieval Monks as Twitter is to Contemporary Socialites.
It's a pity they didn't talk about Erlang's strengths and weaknesses in a bit more detail.

I like Erlang a lot, and pushed to use it in a project I'm working on - it is the right tool for the job in this case.

But programming languages aren't like hammers or saws. You can do a ton of things with any one of them. This particular project probably could have been made to work one way or the other with Java, Javascript, Tcl, Ruby, Python, Perl, PHP, Haskell or any number of other things. And this is, in some ways, a problem for Erlang. It's really, really good at a few things, ok at a number of things, but feels a bit spotty for other things where other languages have something in place. At least that is my impression.
I'm glad it wasn't just me. I felt like something must be seriously wrong if I couldn't write a multiply function properly.
The only thing I didn't like about Erlang is its syntax - but I am sure I could adapt. I just don't like too much syntax in general, one reason why I like Scheme.

Now, Erlang's runtime seems fantastic.

I wonder if they (Basho) investigated Elixir recently and their opinion of it.
"But yeah - if you're upset at the government _taking_ this personal information, how do you reconcile that with giving it all freely to Facebook Corp. in return for "free farmville"???"

There's a huge difference between what I give and what is taken from me.
Now I'm imagining an artisanal service that prints out all of your code- or at least the ones your take pride in the most- then illuminates it for you, before binding it. Now that's a coder's heirloom.
FB is riddled with .gov/,mil employees. Their head of security went from NSA to FB to NSA.

They are unscrupulous.
Actually IE6 and older tied the IE user interface to the Explorer user interface which shared the same SHDOCVW. IE7 created IEFRAME to separate the Explorer user interface from the IE user interface, but it is still in system32, and so are all the other core IE components like MSHTML, WININET, etc...
Apparently the most recent time it was held was 2009: http://underhanded.xcott.com/?page_id=22

Looks like good reading; and links to previous years are toward the top of that page.
Do other people have much experience cross-training people? I am struggling to find decent Senior Perl developers at the moment in London. I am open to the idea of hiring a Senior X Dev and cross-training them ... I'm just not sure how well it'd work out.
Microsoft-sponsored Outercurve Foundation turns to Apache for leadership
Hmmm... if your password was
password30jf0sd09jga09ja0i9sdfasi09djf0-sdj9faspiodjf
and they only used the first 8 characters, you'd think you had a strong password, but would really have a very weak password. Hashing then truncating as discussed above would be much safer.
Curious to know where the Ntrepid $2.8 million "sock puppet" tech is spreading propaganda. I have noticed many of the same irrational comments being made on articles about Snowden in the MSM and then being voted up more than they seem to deserve (See, for instance, the comments on any NYTimes article on Snowden. Not that the NYTimes comment sections are any model of rationality normally.)

I'm biased so maybe I'm seeing things where there isn't anything, but if the tech was funded, then it's being deployed somewhere. Where other than the MSM would it make sense to deploy it, and how would the MSM identify sock puppets if they were targeted?
I seriously can't understand how people can use it with its constant single threaded UI freezing. I've just tried nightly and still the same issue!
These are beautiful, the ancient equivalent of the F-bombs which glitter from within the Linux kernel comments.
You must mean UTF-8 encryption
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Excited for this! No more view raw and save.