skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the contrary, we're in the position to do an incomparable disservice to the world. Companies buy exploits simply to buy the hacker's silence, and governments buy exploits to bolster their offensive military capabilities -- when we sell to them we're complicit with the damage they do.

Personally I'm of the opinion that the only responsible disclosure is full and anonymous disclosure.
Ill try to field this one being that Ive kind of moved around to a handful of different categories of companies and am constantly scratching my head over this. This is the best of the more realistic options from what I can tell...

1) You move to management (engineering, project, product, etc). This one is perhaps quite popular but I think few truly enjoy this move and usually get jammed into middle management. It seems prestigious, pays more, less hours but it can be mind numbing to someone who went into software for the creative and exciting aspects of tech. I think probably many find this is a good way to the midlife crisis. Sorry to be so pessimistic.

2) You become a consultant. Lots of folks do this and will do it as long as they are successful. You usually have to work in more enterprise environments but many realize that is where some of the really tough interesting problems are. Pretty good option for Java/Systems/Network engineers. If your a specialist in Rails or social gaming you may find this one tougher.

3) You get into big corp as a full-time engineer and walk up the Principal Engineer / Architect technical latter. Usually pretty good stability, pretty good pay - relatively comfortable for those who like it.

4) You get tired of things and move out of the field. Where to?.. anyone's guess. Could be tech related, could be totally unrelated. Perhaps we don't like to admit it but there is usually a lot of BS in many software development companies (yes even startups) and at 30, 40, or 50 you realize life is too short to be standing up in a SCRUM everyday (sorry I hate SCRUM - my personal bias).

5) You get really lucky and become really rich somehow (stock options, whatever) and retire early. Everyone thinks this will be them - in reality highly unlikely. Many in software do well but plan on always needing an income.

6) You start a non-startup software business. Perhaps an ISV with a side of consulting or open source or something like that. This one can be pretty fun for those who really truly enjoy software.
> Also, on Win8, you need to select what you're searching for. Unlike 7, it doesn't automatically search everything.

This is fixed on 8.1, it searches everything by default.
I think he already answered his own question in another post. Declares he's already awesome because he lives in NY & has an Amex.

https://medium.com/better-humans/fb2e4d6aea5f
You should study the Constitution (really, it's interesting; I'm not trying to be snarky).

The answer here is: the government can restrict the time, place, and manner of free association in a content-neutral way (ie, it can't regulate based on whether the party is for Tea Partiers, Klansmen, or dubstep fans) so long as the restrictions are narrowly tailored to a valid government interest.
Sid Meier: The Father of Civilization
Snowden granted SAFEPASS travel document for Ecuador - one day before leaving HK
My message must have been unclear, because you think you disagree with me, but I completely agree with you :)

Let me just say: math is wonderful. Science is wonderful. You're absolutely right that math provides a rich source of models and metaphors for understanding the most diverse domains. Everyone should study them!

Yet I don't feel the need to sing the praises of math and science. Why? Because nobody doubts their value. But people do question the value of the humanities. They even imply that they are worthless and should be eliminated. And that seriously concerns me, because in my opinion, they are invaluable. They represent a huge portion of our cultural inheritance, and yes, they teach things that are not found in STEM subjects.

Two important things that the humanities teach are history (knowing how we got here and why) and what I previously called "critical thinking". I realize now that that term is too ambiguous. People think I mean something like "good thinking" or "novel thinking", which are certainly present in STEM as well.

What I intended is much more specific than that. It's the ability to question our assumptions about ends. Science asks about how things are. The humanities ask about how things ought to be. It's an alltogether different domain of inquiry.

Whether it is literature, philosophy, painting, or theater, a humanistic work proposes an ideal for human life. Over time, great works in the humanities dramatically alter our collective understanding of what is good and worthwhile. They help us ponder our destiny.

Popular culture does not do that for us. It is driven by business interests and rarely makes detours into the pursuit of serious questions. The humanities do. They are our sincerest and most persistent attempt to get to the bottom of what really matters.
A Remarkable Life Requires You to Overcome Mediocrity, Not Fear
Qt evaluates using Blink instead of WebKit
The Burningman ticket has for as long as I remember (at least as far back as '98) had words similar to "I voluntarily assume the risk of serious injury or death by attending this event".

(We had tshirts made with the exact ticket wording in '01 or '02...)
I feel like we see these kinds of posts fairly frequently.

And I'm glad. I knew everything that the author said yesterday. I probably knew it 10 or even 15 years ago. But it's really difficult to keep these ideas at the forefront of your mind. Being reminded of it often is the only way I've found so far.
Apple Spells Out iTunes Radio Terms for Record Labels
36 hour CodeCademy marathon leads to unsurprising result
Someone did ALL the courses on CodeCademy and CodeAvengers in 36 hours then wrote an excellent review of both...

http://ludovicurbain.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/code-avengers-review.html

http://ludovicurbain.blogspot.co.nz/2013/06/codecademy-review.html

The verdict: CodeCademy is a nice review... but to learn effectively from scratch CodeAvengers wins hands down!
While an admirable sentiment, it's technically incorrect -- the Declaration of Independence (or at least the copy in the National Archive) was written on parchment paper: http://www.usconstitution.net/constfaq_a8.html#Q145
Counterfeit Food More Widespread Than Suspected
Well said. All I'll add is, thanks to the internet, there is much more comparing going on. An unhealthy amount imho.

This is a great motivator for some people. For others not so much. One needs to figure out where one falls in the spectrum and moderate time spent looking at what the rest of the world is up to accordingly.
I honestly don't have any experience with linux cnc. A lot of what forms my opinion is the controller's marketability. Many controllers do not ship with a PC, which is a great selling point on one hand, but a limiting factor on the other hand. If a controller came with, or just was itself, a dedicated host, and is the only supported host, then linux is definitely a viable option that doesn't create any barriers to entry. But if a company is simply building a controller, and requiring the customer to provide a PC, I see it as a no brainer business decision that the PC runs windows, and not linux.
You want to make sure artists are paid a fair amount for how much you listen to them? Use last.fm or another service to record what artists you listen to and how much, and cut a check to them directly for 1 cent, 10 cents, or whatever you think is fair on a per-song basis every 6 months. Whether you listen to music on Spotify, Google Music, or you torrent all your music, this is a more personal way to show the artists you listen to how much you appreciate them, and it circumvents the RIAA and all the other terrible things in between you and the artist.
Has it ever led to a pseudo-ransom situation if only a single client is affected by a showstopper bug? If not, how is this mitigated?
I should offer my own counterpoint here. That analysis ignores the question of whether Pandora plays "rob" from anything else. But since Pandora songs aren't available upon request, it doesn't rob album sales. It's basically gravy.

Now, someone who makes a lot of money off of radio plays, and sees radio plays shrink as Pandora plays increase, they might still feel they have a beef due to the lower songwriter royalty rates.

Spotify, on the other hand, is different. Spotify does rob album sales.
"I don't mind the trespassing so much, but activities without safe words aren't cool."

Consent goes both ways; if you're told beforehand that you're not going to be allowed to leave, then it's selfish to put everyone else at an increased legal risk that they didn't sign up for.

"Buy the ticket, take the ride."
Yay, it's the Extra Action Marching Band - the dancers, drummers and horn players in the photos! (They evolved out of Crash Worship.)
I try not to think of it as a motivator or something to make me feel minuscule. I think it's real strength is to remind you that things are possible. You may not have to live up to the other people's heights, but it reminds you that other people have climbed mountains the world didn't even know exists. Reminds you not to keep your own mountains sitting in the back of your mind, even if they're just molehills.
There are computer developers (not just software) who are working into their 70s. Guess it all depends on how you view your career and what things you are doing.

While the 20 year olds may be able to type faster and use newer tools, they lack the expert wisdom gained from decades of hands-on experience. From my perspective (I'm 48) I see the industry having to reinvent some wheel or other every 10 or so years, a lot of stuff developed years ago is being written all over again for microcomputers, then the web, then netbooks, now mobile, and soon Google glass, add in in-car apps etc. For us guys who wrote that sort of stuff earlier in their career it's old hack to do it again and also improve upon the old designs with new capacity connectivity and technologies.

As far as transitioning out, there's a lot of skill and experience that comes with age, many people start a new business or career at retirement based on their knowledge, hobbies and/or experience. You will find many famous authors, painters, cartoonists, etc. got their start later in life.

Long run? Have a hobby or three, keep learning, hone your craft, do stuff, think of what you want to become as you get older. Don't rely on a particular industry to always keep you employed/happy/busy. Never think that after a certain age you can't do anything else, you can always do something different.
>To hunt for needles, the N.S.A. needs a global haystack that can be used for data mining. That is what the data collection is all about; no one has any interest in listening in on innocuous calls or reading pointless e-mails. This is all about using computers—massive, massive computers—and using complex models and algorithms to find the needles, rather than hoping to guess how to keep Americans safe, just in case the Ed Snowdens of the world might get upset with more intelligent approaches.

>Which brings us back to Snowden’s global hypocrisy tour. I think nothing has more thoroughly damaged Snowden’s “whistle-blower” persona than his bizarre—and, I would say, cowardly—decision to rely on some of the countries with the greatest history of oppression to help keep him out of the Americans’ hands.

It's staggering how inept this article is.
Reporting 1.2K crashes
Would you be able to tell us why you believe the license is bad? Just wondering...
Yeah, and weren't those found to be totally and completely false?
Many of the Chinese were probably in debt to the Chinese mafia (triads, if they were Cantonese). It's a very common con - you take out a loan to get transported to a richer place (often with bait-and-switch jobs), then have to pay back the guy who took you there. In some cases, family can be held hostage.

It still happens (though it's different nationalities).
Ummmm, maybe.

What's the "safe word" for an long (think international) flight? What's the safe word for a deep-enough-to-require-decompression scuba dive? What's the safe word for a roller coaster? A parachute jump? There are lots of things which, once embarked upon don't have any "easy" ways out apart from seeing them through to the end.

From TFA "To remind you, this is an event with some legal and physical risks. If you are uncomfortable with these risks you should not attend. Really. Once the event begins you cannot leave for two hours."

They made it clear enough - in my opinion. If you're the sort of person who needs a safe word for all your activities, you shouldn't attend that sort of event (or do any of many things which are hard or impossible to "back out of" once started).
It's not breakcore, but Autechre's Anti EP was released in protest.

http://www.discogs.com/Autechre-Anti-EP/release/157

I like the way they also printed some of the sticker notes on the actual labels. You can see this if you click on the teal sleeve image at the top left.
Rick Rubin on Crashing Kanye's Album in 15 Days
It will arrive to my door this Friday, really excited to read it!

Concerning lemonad, since there's no documentation yet, I think the Annotation is really the way to go to get a quick feel at what the library has to offer: http://fogus.github.io/lemonad/lemonad.html
Now that you say it, you're totally right about the vector maps thing.

I don't think it's impossible cloudless aerials were inspired by MapBox though... I think you and your sibling overestimate how hard it is to chop up and process imagery with a cluster of computers.
And you went to... iTunes. The same software that wouldn't let me download podcasts (which are essentially RSS feeds) because I was in a certain region.
Which just follows software versioning in general.
Locally as in US-based ideally, yes.
In case any New Yorkers are wondering, the party was held between Pell and Canal St, in a section of the subway that was created for the Second Ave Subway in the 70s, but will not be used in the one being built now (so, will likely never be used). And this is not confidential information:

http://secondavenuesagas.com/2013/06/25/abandoned-sas-segmen...
Heh - I've got a picture somewhere of a friend of mine playing trumpet with Extra Action Marching Band with David Byrne. (And some insane stories about the Extreme Elvis tour of Vegas where they played the entire first Back Sabbath album).
I just want to add that RubyMotion is also not correctly capturing the "value" of the variable in a block. i.e. even if you manually retain a local variable's object and don't release it, it wouldn't work correctly if the block runs after the local variable goes out of scope. IMO, this makes it much harder to workaround this retain bug.

The workaround now is just to create a class around each block operation. I've been thinking about this issue quite a bit (I intrigued many developers using RM are actually not observing this issue sooner) and this workaround seems to be the only way to use APIs like #beginBackgroundTaskWithExpirationHandler: and #endBackgroundTask: which has no non-block based alternatives and is always called asynchronously.
Euler back of beyond the frontier, and today:

Code conjectures. Run repeated simulations with new args, consistently returns result. Explore nether reaches, too much quickens and unwinds for anything else. Let the old gray academe grinders publish or perish proofs in far too expensive journals.

Thank you Aaron for trying.
See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5950675
mind = blown.
https://nightweb.net/ ???
It dose not matter if you are self thought or not. The only thing that matter is how smart you are. I have met people with degrees that for some reason don't know shit about the fundamentals of CS and then there is smart people that just gets it.
Does anyone expect that to hold? It seems obvious that they just needed something that seemed vaguely like a legal basis to justify the decision. It's at least not as egregious as Griswald, but I definitely think they're reaching with the "feds can't have a custom marital definition". If they're going to say it's illegal for the federal government to define marriage because marriage is a state-level thing, they may as well also say it's illegal for the federal government to consider marital status altogether.
How many from Qualcomm? =)
Here's what I believe: that quoted "government officials" are self-serving liars.
Build a custom HTML5 player + custom video
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"Wildcard certificates are generally best avoided. Although they are not any less secure from a strict tech- nical point of view, the way in which they are typically handled (especially in larger organizations) makes them less secure in practice." https://www.ssllabs.com/downloads/SSL_TLS_Deployment_Best_Pr...

I'm curious about this. Could someone please comment on "the way in which they are typically handled makes them less secure in practice" concern?
Grooveshark doesn't have those limitations, and you can stream songs individually (or use artist radio, genre radio, or user radio)
Watch out, you are going into the realm of fixed pies. No one benefits when you make it a zero sum game.

Pandora is saying they are trying to get more royalties for artists, and they are truthful in saying that. If they do some growth to get there, does that hurt artists in anyway?

> unfair it is that they also have to pay performance royalties

All the talk of performance royalties is about fairness to artists from what I have read, not complaining about expenses, but saying Pandora actually considers the performer.
There is quite a big difference between what a spy agency might have access to and what it releases in an AP article. The latter is motivated by self preservation. Truth, when it happens, is a coincidence.
I want to hug you so hard right now.
I previously asked on Quora about why Apple could do things that Microsoft couldn't. But it seems Microsoft can now do them too. I think they may no longer be considered a monopoly.

http://www.quora.com/Why-can-Apple-favor-their-own-programs-...
To be fair, the original wording was pretty bad. If a non-profit had someone pay $1 into a political fund (potentially without approval) they could lose their nonprofit status.

This is obviously not the intent of the law, but would be the 0% everyone throws around.

You could say <1% or something, but now you are arbitrarily drawing a line. Thus I would point out that not drawing a line is by extension impossible.
23 is early August. https://wiki.mozilla.org/RapidRelease/Calendar has all the dates.
Reconnecting After Forty Years
From the perspective of black-box testing, this scenario seems quite obvious. (Alter [redacted: form/post] value.)
But when you record an MP3 and then compress it again to MP3 you've then doubly compressed it with a lossy format. Besides, I personally feel like, if someone wants to go to the trouble to record a song streaming from Pandora, who can really feel threatened? If you've experienced buying and shopping for music legally, it's a pretty nice experience. You can browse everything and it's nicely organized. You can get full album art and correct ID3 tags. You can choose the explicit versions of albums. Pirating music really isn't that nice of an experience. And if you really want to support an artist, just buy some merch or go to a show. And for independent bands, the Pandora plays and especially album sales is real money (if you sell an album for $10 online, the band makes something like 50%). It actually feels nice to pay for things especially when it's obvious that as a whole, these talented people make almost no money on average. But more than being altruistic, it's just nice to be a part of modern culture and follow bands, much like people follow sports. Getting some new album and reading reviews and going to their shows is really just a lot of fun.
Your rage is directed at the wrong person. The guy up front isn't the guy who originally proposed it. That's not how political parties work.
Or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk
It's not "I'm innocent with nothing to hide". it's we are individuals, and anomalous. A regimented army cannot allow a question to weaken it. "Profile this 5th columnist metadata, and corral them. We're at war".
I've been wondering about this line of thinking lately, and I'm confused if its actually productive.

For example: I need to lose about 15 pounds. If I just accepted myself as me, I'd never really work towards the better picture of myself, 15 pounds lighter. Doesn't this apply when trying to better yourself in other ways?

If I'm not imagining a future where I'm better than I am right now, how will I ever get to it? What easier way to imagine how one could be better than to look at what other people have, and hope to have it myself.

I feel like, eventually, people just end up settling and stop fighting to better themselves. I think the older someone is, the more likely the are to have settled. I hope for myself, that I keep fighting.
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The first thing I looked for on that page was an image showing the Start button they've added back. I guess it's pretty telling that none of those pictures include the desktop and everything is showcasing the tablet interface now.
"On iOS 7 they now have a full rigid-body physics engine built in and comes with a nice high level API for developers to take advantage of."

That's great, but the original comment I was discussing was the claim that "Android is just now getting what iOS had three years ago". iOS 7 is three to six months away, still.
I agree re: 1) -- Streams are pretty handy for normalizing raw binary wire protocol (dechunking, decompressing, etc) and ultimately turning the raw data into logical objects akin to structs for each layer in a protocol. I'm not sure why blending binary/objects isn't a more valid use case for lower-level protocol work. Using this paradigm, I found it really easy to make quick work of an existing binary protocol in nice discrete stream layers that could be combined as needed.
As is factoring large numbers :)
Nice, thanks for the link. I'll look into this next week.
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> I also recall that Firefox leaked a lot of memory, not sure if that's been fixed now.

It has. See https://wiki.mozilla.org/Performance/MemShrink for details.
Many people do not enjoy the rote task of administering whitespace by hand, and consider it a problem better left to computers. I'm sure there were some people who thought maintain ledgers was no problem before spreadsheets. Or, not to put too fine a point on it, who thought that auto-indenting editors were a pointless luxury. That doesn't make your opinion wrong, but I think you'll find it's rare in a few years.
So, Django or Rails for someone who wants what you're recommending this for (beginners with light coding background looking to build an app quickly)?

Is there something like that SaaSTemplate for Django?
Very excited to see where this goes!
Sometimes, the only way out is through!
Can you imagine the righteous Christian indignation and uproar that would ensue if Google ever turned down money from some Christian advertiser on the basis you suggest?
OpenGlass: Image Attribute Classification and Human Assisted Question Answering
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Outside of the value of actually being helpful, I can see why this would appeal to Mark. I bet he saw Greylock as a better partner for helping him maintain control over the subsequent rounds.
The Windows Modern UI isn't intended as a "tablet interface"; its intended as a form-factor agnostic new interface, the desktop is the legacy interface.

Now, I'm not saying I like the interface -- just that it isn't the "tablet interface".
What is it supposed to resemble?
Do awesome, don't be awesome.