skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Continue to shift away" doesn't mean proprietary steps can't or shouldn't be taken nor does it mean there will never be proprietary parts behind the scenes. The API to these Extensions are trying to become stable and not proprietary [0]; do you have suggestions or time to contribute? If Netflix is made to simply talk to a ratified API, it is a big step forward from a non-standard API exposed by the likes of Silverlight.

[0] https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/html-media/raw-file/tip/encrypted-med...
The paper documents their approach. You could reproduce their findings by building your own offline/online symbolic execution system.
Love it! Signed up immediately, imported my Google Reader no problem, and so far very quick in use. I've tried a couple others over the last few months but this is, by far, my favorite. Bookmarked.
Some of their customers certainly might, but all? I don't know RHEL's pricing, but I have seen/heard of shops that license RHEL but could never afford a commercial SAN. They probably have very striated pricing tiers; remember, "support" is one of the biggest value-adds of a RHEL subscription, and a little company can get away with less support.
The top doctors in any given field are some of the cockiest motherfuckers on planet Earth. There's no lack of confidence in that field. None.

And think about it: at the top of that profession (especially surgical specialties), you're basically selling to the uberrich. The field is highly competitive. It's a market predicated on referrals, networks, and especially social proof. Your skill is critical, but skill is a table stake.

Your average, run-of-the-mill, family doctor is a different story. But "baller ass" doctors need to project, well, ballin' assness.
It's completely normal to have to start over a few times as a beginner. Learning to code is not trivial, and since you're not going to learn everything before you start writing code, you'll inevitably run into issues that you didn't anticipate.

That said, the OP could probably benefit from planning ahead a little more. It helps to focus on core aspects of the product that are not likely to change and to anticipate things that you might want to change. At first, it may be a little hard to hold your entire project in your head at once, but once you've broken it down into a few core components, it becomes much easier to think about things going forward.

It sounds like the OP is already arriving at these realizations, so good luck to him!
I'd totally vote for a Lessig/Schneier ticket in 2016. One would clean up the political disaster, the other the "security" nightmare...
It's a good lesson to learn. After all- most web apps aren't that complicated in the first place. To steal a quote, they're just "skins over databases". Yet, they have immense value.
> But it seems that more than half the videos I watch are still using the crappy old Flash player.

That's because of the ads. With things like ClickToFlash or youtube-dl, you notice that most videos are actually available as MPEG4 and/or WebM.
That's the scary part.

You also don't realize that swearing allegiance to a country is a very, very bizarre and backwards thing to be doing. The rest of the developed world is shocked by this practice, but you were taught so young you don't even know it's strange and wrong.
Thanks for te clarification!
cheap barometers are pretty terrible for absolute readings, I am not sure you could get any useful (for weather observation) data from them in a reasonable way that would be better than from classic stations.
Michael & Scott, "Simple, Fast, and Practical Non-Blocking and Blocking Concurrent Queue Algorithms", which I understand to be fairly standard, as well as the "textbook" lock-free stack algorithm (dunno who invented it, I re-"invented" it myself and then confirmed it was identical to that given in The Art of Multiprocessor Programming).

Use case for the queue is message-passing. Use case for the stack is as the allocator for the queue.
But that's the problem. The goal isn't to put them in jail for any possible thing that can stick. When someone commits a crime (from which other crimes can stem), the purpose of bringing them to court is to get justice for that crime (not all the other incidental crimes). With that in mind, if the suspect is shown to be not guilty of that crime that prompted the trial in the first place then they should be freed. The prosecution should not being going out and looking for anything that sticks.

The entire premise of our legal system was founded upon the idea that it is better to let 100 criminals go free than let one innocent person rot in jail. Throwing several additional charges in the hope of getting a plea bargain is antithesis to the original intention of the system.
I wonder which companies are skewing that the most, anybody have a list of the top Y Combinator companies?

Obviously the average of $46 million doesn't provide a clear picture at all.
And that key got onto his new device how precisely? Observed behavior was reset password with questions/email, prevision a new device, get old chats on new divice. If the new device had the old encryption key, how did it get there?
Having received one of the bugs (that was not exploitable), I appreciated it in the short term. :P

I hope a free version of this can be built, it would be a nice additional QA step to run before release.
Well, the good news is that as an end-user you'll probably only have one monolithic proprietary chunk of code that's even conveniently integrated into your web browser. The bad news is that you'll have to hope that all the DRMed video sites you're using support the proprietary scheme your particular browser and platform use. In this case, it's Microsoft's PlayReady DRM.

Also, the codec used is actually part of the proprietary blob, and there are no requirements as to which codecs or containers a particular DRM scheme supports, so in theory every DRM scheme could require a different, incompatible proprietary codec and they'd still all be 100% standards compliant.
See, this is what happens when you make assumptions. You made assumptions then, and you're surprised to learn new information. But you're making assumptions now as well.

Please don't assume the only reason he's being prosecuted is for reporting a story, or for ranting about an FBI agent. He is more like a reporter who is embedded with drug dealers, and during the course of being embedded, committed crimes. But a little bit differently; he isn't just reporting Anonymous, he is the self-appointed representative face and mouthpiece for them.

And also please don't point this at the executive branch. Law enforcement and prosecutors around the country do this kind of bullying all the time, and have for decades. A horrible but justified example is the TV show Law & Order, which is modeled after real life case studies. Often they're hunting for anything they can use to prosecute someone after they blindly accept the person is guilty and must be prevented from doing some as-yet-unknown illegal act. (Of course on TV they never do wrong to someone they prosecute)
Not surprising. DHS hired an old Stasi hand and an old KGB hand as advisors under Dubya:

http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Jan05/Whitney0121.htm
Everyone seems to be stuck on the word "project"

It's unquestionable that you need energy, excitement and confidence to be good at something. Anything from being a doctor, lawyer to professional athlete.

So let's clarify these words before we start the strawmen arguments of "So lawyers should be jumping for joy and act like Billy Mays in the courtroom, right columbo?"

Energetic (Possessing, exerting, or displaying energy.) - You need to have energy about what you do. Stephen King is energetic about writing horror fiction. He doesn't high-five everyone around him but you can tell he puts his energy into his books.

Excitement (A feeling of great enthusiasm and eagerness) - What you do needs to excite you. It should be something that keeps you up at night thinking about it. A good surgeon should be excited to learn about new techniques and discoveries in his field.

Confidence (a feeling or consciousness of one's powers or of reliance on one's circumstances) - You absolutely must know that you are going to sink that next basket. You don't need to walk around like you're the best person at the game but you need to believe that you yourself have the ability.

So yes, you need these traits to excel. To argue this is really just leading towards a debate of "Well I choose a narrow definition of excitement and since doctors aren't that then it is irrelevant".

Projection (The act of projecting or the condition of being projected.) is going to be the only thing people can fall back on. I don't believe they are saying to fake some part, but it definitely is not what I'm saying. Having these traits leads to projecting these traits. Your excitement, confidence and energy comes out when you talk about what you love to do. It just does.
Neumann didn't develop the Von Neumann architecture. He was one of many who worked on the ENIAC/EDVAC machine where it was developed. He summarized much of the work that was done, in the abstract (meaning that it was not classified), and his First Draft was distributed.

Years later, when John Mauchly was defending his patents on digital computers (after it had become declassified), the First Report was brought up as a public disclosure.
And yet they could not stop the Boston bombing. Even after the Russian government had specifically told them that the older brother could be a terrorist. I've lost all respect for them. It tells me that they don't really know what they are doing.
Google Sues IRS for $83.5 Million Tax Refund
One of the app authors here; The Weathertron uses the backend API provided by the forecast.io guys (who also do the DarkSky app).
Looks nice! On your landing page I'd recommend auto-cycling through the features on a slow timer until mouse-over.
It's the density and incompressibility. When you slap water, it hurts because there is more incompressible water in the way of the water you slap, not because the film on the surface of the water is holding together. Falling into water from some great height is pretty similar to slapping it. A smoother entry dissipates the energy of the fall over a longer period of time, reducing the experienced forces (hence diving).
About time. Now if they only added some good movies...
Right. I interpreted the original question as "what, ideally, would be the right thing to do?" as opposed to "what would you expect them to do?"

It's not really about the mere involvement of an economic treaty, that can certainly be a part of the negotiations. It's just that, in this particular situation, it's a blatant attempt to use our economic muscle to bend a smaller entity to our will on a completely unrelated matter. (Again, I don't find it surprising or unexpected in any way)
Any good intelligence agency is going to have an information network that spans far beyond the scope of the specific things they are currently investigating, because that network takes time to build.

I actually am not sure whether that violates their mandate. Is it a problem if an agency gathers information outside their jurisdiction? Obviously they cannot make arrests, for example, but can they gather information?
> I don't see how this can actually be solved, since most people aren't concerned about encrypting their communications.

They shouldn't need to be. Encryption is cheap, it should happen automatically behind users backs by default.

> I can't use encryption to message other people unless they use encryption too.

Build the next WhatsApp/Facebook/GMail and integrate encryption to it.
Would you be more likely to use Persona if it acted as proxy to your gmail account, as it does on http://beta.123done.org?
Sticking to proven technology like PHP and Postgres I think is solid advice when you actually have to deliver something.

Avoiding frameworks, unit tests and client-side JavaScript is probably not as helpful. True, they can add bloat and complexity if you don't learn how to work with them.

Check out a framework like Laravel. Once you get over the hump you won't want to look back. I have my own framework called Phreeze which of course I'm partial towards but there are more recognized ones out there.
Blind Kids Gain Vision Late in Childhood While Giving a Lesson in Brain Science
Yes. There is no reason to think that things which did not work on Linux before will suddenly start working just because this API is being crammed into HTML5.
Fibrenamics 2013 - Construção Leve: Inovação e Sustentabilidade
Looking through your commit history, looks like you've been working very hard on Go read since you started in March. It looks and feels fantastic.

Thank you for going OSS with this project!
> The number of date formats we encountered is comical (so much so that I started a blog to document them). At current count, there are around 60 date formats I’ve seen.

Ha! Is that really not in the spec for Atom/RSS/RDF?
I setup a recurring monthly event with each team member where we both jump on Skype or Google Hangout to chat about three things: what's one thing I can do better to help him with his job, what's one thing he can do better to improve at his job, and what's one thing the company can do better to make everyone's lives easier.

I was just talking with a friend of mine about this very topic -- it's critically important for any company, remote or otherwise, to have this kind of meaningful, open dialogue periodically, and yet so few companies actually do this. I'd love to see some statistics on what kind of effect a half hour per employee per month does for overall happiness and employee retention.
That's a strange interpretation of my statement. Let me be slightly clearer: I don't think children in my community were/are taught that. To be fair, I grew up in hippieville, but nonetheless.
Wow - this is exciting. It sounds similar to the SSH protocol but with forward error correction and fine-tuned for quick handshakes. Is the the beginning of the end for TCP and SSL? I hope so!
I'm guessing that older YouTube content may not have the source upload files available... some may be relatively poor quality, or not frequently watched. Re-encoding from the "flash" version of the videos would yield a worse result. Some of this may be from before Google bought YouTube. All speculation of course.
Professor Zittrain has also published editorials in major news sources. The NYT search page returns 7 more resources for Bruce. (397/390).
The NSA has specifically stated that they have the ability to preliminarily gather data through PRISM a week before going to FISC for a warrant. What is presented to the judge as evidence is usually that very collected data.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the source of this article originally said "People on the internet start using encryption and other privacy-protecting techniques to keep their communications secret from the NSA" and the media spun it to be "[Al Quaida/Terrorists] on the internet start using encryption and other privacy-protecting techniques to keep their communications secret from the NSA" because that gets more eyeballs.
In practice, taking the Constitution (of whatever country) into their own hands would just lead to the entire company getting shut down over one customer.
In my experience over the last few weeks, younger Germans (my age, 30 years & younger) are blissfully ignorant ("I don't have anything to hide" - sounds familiar ?) to the impact of the government spying on its citizen.

24 years are a long time & that part of history is not as well-ingrained in the collective memory as the Holocaust. :-(
The best friends are those that don't allow you to make mistakes.
The ones that aren't really your friends are the ones that pander to you, for fear of embarrassing you. They are doing you a disservice.

Which is of greater embarrassment, the alleged behaviour of the NSA, or an offer of asylum to a whistle blower destined for death or Guantanamo?

Jack Straw, British Foreign Secretary from 2001 to 2006:

"So was I right not just in supporting the war, but in actively prosecuting it? I’ve been asked a million times since the invasion whether, knowing then what I know now, I would have made the same decision.
And no, I wouldn’t. How could we have agreed to invade Iraq if we had known that there were no WMD there?"[1]

Earlier in the same article:

"As I spelt out the seriousness of the situation and my conviction that we now had to confront Saddam Hussein militarily, my wife Alice and children Will and Charlotte were up in the gallery listening.

None of them shared my view. Each of them would have been among the million or so demonstrators on the recent protest march through London against the war if it had not been for their loyalty to me and their wish not to embarrass me."

Jack Straw, Blair and Straw's family would have been better friends had they caused embarrassment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_blair#Relationship_with_t...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2208155/Jack-Straw-I... [1]
I've found the the string "HN" generates a nice but challenging world.
It took an awfully long time to get IE10 for Windows 7. Hopefully this time it will go faster.
There is also no reason to think that these binary blobs will be built for platforms that the video providers have not given two shits about in the past. Anyone who is supporting this stuff because they think it will get them Netflix on a GNU/Linux desktop (not ChromeOS or Android) is crazy. That's not what this does, and they don't care about supporting us.
If memory serves, I believe that AirBnB and Dropbox represent about half of that.
I threw it in as an admitted long shot because I was sharply reminded of personal experiences with someone who would have been much better off receiving that diagnosis decades earlier than actually happened.

A small chance of a good outcome and no real cost in the common case is worthwhile mentioning IMO. Particularly if it is sufficiently hedged that it comes across as the honest "really random, really far out possibility that I know is probably wrong" thing that it is.
A tense diplomatic situation involves words and press releases, not bombs and lives. Both situations are in the public interest, but it seems weird to prioritize diplomatic secrecy over national security secrecy.

Likewise the Supreme Court has ruled just this year that it's OK for law enforcement to take DNA samples merely for being detained. I guess all I can say is that you would all be very surprised about what's technically considered Constitutional surveillance or not, and the kind of surveillance (including very-long-term surveillance) that all levels of government have routinely used without making a formal public press release each and every single time.

That doesn't mean that what is in place now is all perfect and good (e.g. FISC itself certainly needs more transparency in its operation) but if you're beating on the Constitution drum I think you'll be let down in the end.
Of course, the majority of these feature are shared by most or all of the very "biggest competitor" cloud providers they are comparing themselves with, and in many cases more effectively than this tiny company possibly can. So that's a bit misleading, to claim these as competitive advantages.

The corporate structure point is interesting, but I'm skeptical about its legal efficacy.

The part that's most interesting to me is the part of #1 where they say "sole root/administrative access" and "we have no file system level access". Is this actually technically possible, given that it's not just storage (obligatory props to Tarsnap!), but actual computing? I mean, I know that there are encryption schemes that allow you to do certain particular kinds of transformation on the encrypted data without unencrypting it... but isn't it impossible to do what they say, run a generalized IaaS/PaaS, without being able to see your data?

In summary, is there a single competitive advantage here this is all of

* actually a competitive difference, and
* is actually possible, and
* actually has any effect

?
Introducing JiffyLab a zero configuration Python/Unix web based teaching env
My father, a man of 75 years old in the last couple of months had been mentioning that all our calls were being recorded. I dismissed him as just paranoid. After all, I'm the software developer, I'm the techie in our house. I know best, I would tell myself. Now I feel quite stupid. How could I have been so naive in believing that our government would never do this. This is the land of the free after all right? I've learned to never trust our government. At least that is a good thing that came out of this.

edit: The funny thing is that right now he is having a small problem with somebody because they had a verbal agreement over the phone about how much a repair would cost. Both their memories seem to remember different things. It is only a couple hundred dollars but my father said that if were in the order of $50,000 or more he would get a lawyer so that the conversation he had with the man could be retrieved to prove my father was right. I told him that that would never happen because, mmm..., because the government would not want to give it to anybody else. At that point I remembered that I had already been wrong once so I could easily be wrong again.
> Ruby and Python "have" stacks, queues, and (in Python's case) deques, but they're rarely used, because, like Golang, they have a flexible variable-length array ADT and a table ADT.

When all you have is a hammer...
The last time I looked at genetics, I remember a method that selected the top n genes and added a number of completely random (no crossover) genes to fill the population of the next generation. Would it be enough to add a number of completely random seeds each run?
I'm afraid of dying as the result of a fall from significant height, to be clear. Skydiving with a parachute? No sweat. Bungie jumping? Uncomfortable, but not too bad. Being anywhere near the edge of a 40 foot cliff? My palms are made out of water.
Well, right now the closest thing is Reddit's PAC (http://www.reddit.com/r/rpac) which is primarily focused on net neutrality.

By phase 2 I just meant it would be really beneficial to get a formal (EFF sponsored or not) political action committee focused primarily on internet users' rights.
There is no such thing as national security. The state of the existence of some such condition is a fallacy. There is, also, no such thing as a necessary state secret: every single secret the state could ever want to keep is a failure of the state to produce the only thing that states can produce, to make peace: shared knowledge of the world.

Oh, sure, the military-industrial mindset, where the entire world is naught by a jungle a-fire, full of cannibals .. they will prey upon my bold statement that secrets are unnecessary, but no secret is anything but a lie. It does not ever sustain itself, inherently, but rather consumes the holder of life, itself.

And to this one can only respond: if you believe your secrets are worth more than another human life, your attempt at holding a position, in State, as a member of the greater whole, has failed.

I would sack every general, immediately. Disarm the architects of the greatest scam that ever intruded upon mankinds search for Peace itself: the makers of War, in word and deed.
Related:

http://blog.vjeux.com/2012/image/best-cropping-position.html

http://seatgeek.com/blog/dev/opencv-face-detection-for-cropp...

https://github.com/globocom/thumbor