skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If that's a Federal circuit (which seems likely, [1]) then I don't think there's anything that the local Texans had to do with it one way or the other. It's a Federal circuit court that happens to be located in Texas, Texas doesn't actually appoint the judges who serve there.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_District_Court_fo...
It's possible to love somebody without being proud of them.

For example, if your son was a drug addict who was in and out of jail and did nothing with his life. You would probably not be proud of him - but you could still love him dearly.
Embassies are routinely bugged by myriad parties so I would not read too much into this. It is the expected background noise of working in an embassy. It is the selection bias of people paying attention now because there is a story that people are interested in. There is a reason they constantly search embassies for bugs.

Also, most sophisticated buggings are usually difficult to detect even against a sophisticated adversary. All of which suggests to me that finding this bug in the Ecuador embassy is likely to be coincidence.
Except, Snowden obviously didn't do this for personal gain. His life is probably over.

Compare this situation to a British citizen a few years ago who sold sensitive state secrets for money, and got the MAXIMUM PENALTY by UK law: 2 years in prison. Snowden who rightly or wrongly is acting from I believe are his own moral goals, may get the death penalty, tortured like Manning, or life in prison.

"desperately wanted fugitive"? I am curious about you, and why you use a phrase like this. Seriously, please explain your position on this.
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There's an iframe on the main page with a demo, but there's no link to it so pulling it up on mobile is sort of a pain in the ass.

Here's the demo:

http://lungo.tapquo.com/example/index.html
Yes, and actively developed too. It could benefit from more developers of course.

Latest Big Brother scandal caused a big influx of Diaspora users by the way, with various refugees from big centralized networks.
Correct me if I'm wrong but doesn't the .ipa include the bundle ID as well as the App ID inside the binary? I didn't think it was possible to edit that and still get it codesigned for approval.
Apple Hires CEO of Yves-Saint Laurent as VP of Special Projects
Yeah really the way to provide security in gmail is to compose your message in an external (local) editor, GPG and ascii-armor the message, paste that into gmail, and send it. The recipient does the reverse.

Using an editor like emacs could make this pretty streamlined, but at that point you might as well just use an IMAP client that can do GPG or S/MIME.
Maybe no one falls asleep while driving that fast, but Google suggests that people can drive pretty fast once they fall asleep:

http://boston.cbslocal.com/2012/01/03/sources-lt-gov-murray-...
http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2...
http://sandra.visionsmartnews.com/randolph-county-nc-school-...
I've followed yogthos' work on Luminus since the beginning.

It doesn't merit mention independently of Compojure. It's just some sane defaults for pedagogical reasons for getting started writing web apps on top of Compojure. It adds nor removes no runtime or anything else. As it currently exists, it's a Leiningen project template generator. That's about it.

Luminus is isomorphic, for the purposes of a benchmark, with Compojure.

I'm sure yogthos will be flattered when I tell him his web app templating thingy was included though.
I had a hacky wiki based on GPG-signed text files: https://gist.github.com/Zash/3804318
Editing was done through a shell script that fetched the source, invoked my editor, signed and uploaded the signed text back.
There was a huge diplomatic incident in 2006 when the Russians discovered listening devices planted by the UK. This doesn't happen every day.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jan/19/fake-rock-plot-s...
Unless there is evidence that he has a history with drug abuse, it seems significantly more likely the government was involved in this.
I used to work a few rooms away from the guys doing Google's IP geolocation database. I am pretty sure that this city + ISP has good coverage and is well tested :-) Also, all other location-dependent Google services get it right.
I'm not a haskell expert (obviously), but the time it takes me to parse things like this is time I would rather spend reading 5-10x the number of lines and getting the meaning right away.

let loeb x = fmap ($ loeb x) x in
loeb [ (!!5), const 3, liftM2 (+) (!!0) (!!1), (*2) . (!!2), length, const 17]

(btw, I have no idea what the hell this does. Something to do with spreadsheets, apparently. I found it on http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Blow_your_mind, which has enough cleverness to make me want to cry)

I've seen cleaner and more readable code in production haskell, but this sort of thing happens enough that I'm very cautious.
Yet that doesn't stop this from being a pretty nice letter from a father to a son.
That's a dangerously lax attitude to have. What threat to national security could or would the CIA curtail by bugging Ecuador's embassy in London?

I'd understand Chinese or Russian embassies, but expecting every embassy on Earth is an incredibly permissive stance to take, even as a safety-conscious citizen of the U.S.
Those gizmos trade having the car slide instead of spin or flip, they don't break the laws of physics, so be safe out there you don't want to under steer into the oncoming lane someday. Regarding this accident, it's happened that people black-out/pass-out/fall-asleep/have-a-heart-attack/and-so-forth and the weight of their foot on the accelerator - well guess what - accelerates the car.
Federal law definitely would preempt state regulation. Here, FinCEN has issued a guidance with what I believe is the weight of federal regulation however. California typically ignores FinCEN rulings (except this one), but generally shouldn't.

Preemption is a complex business. Also, I'm not a lawyer, but this is one of the reasons why the issue is in federal court. The rules are so complex and contradictory as to be more of a burden on society than a help.
Question: Why did the PTVS developers eventually adopt the .sln|.*proj file thing that other MS languages (C#, VB) use?

As far as I can remember, there was some resistance to going through that route before (v1.5 didn't have this, I think).
Former fashion CEO -> wearables? iWatch?
These "serious people" don't like to look like fools. Don't peek behind the curtain.
They use a jailbroken device to obtain a decrypted copy of the application binary, then re-sign it with their own developer certificate, and submit. There's no recompilation needed.
For you android devs out there, is this something you've also had to deal with? I'm wondering how prevalent this is on the Android app store?
Perhaps the Russians planted the device and intentionally made it easy to find in order to incriminate the US.
I was thinking more about reading it than seeing it. Steinsaltz is translated, but retains the traditional layout (and distinct typefaces, as for Rashi), so it can give a taste of what's there in the original. One doesn't have to agree with Steinsaltz to admire the translation effort.
Yup, that is what I meant about drivers having an option. In a panic most will freeze up without training. Sad but true.
It's symmetric. There are no private keys.
Since you tried to cancel and it was difficult to find how, can't you issue a chargeback at that point?
Ask HN: How should I let people know about my project?
I just created a site called Vinstavids (Vine and Instagram videos) and I believe that many would enjoy using it if they knew about it. I did a "Show HN" today and got a few upvotes, but nothing spectacular.

I've done the obvious like create a FB page and invite my friends. I've also created a Twitter.

What recommendations would you give to get the word out to more people?

Here's the link: http://vinstavids.com
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Reminds me of the 'I contribute to the windows kernel. We are slower than other operating systems.' article:

http://blog.zorinaq.com/?e=74

"Another reason for the quality gap is that that we've been having trouble keeping talented people. Google and other large Seattle-area companies keep poaching our best, most experienced developers, and we hire youths straight from college to replace them. You find SDEs and SDE IIs maintaining hugely import systems. These developers mean well and are usually adequately intelligent, but they don't understand why certain decisions were made, don't have a thorough understanding of the intricate details of how their systems work, and most importantly, don't want to change anything that already works.

These junior developers also have a tendency to make improvements to the system by implementing brand-new features instead of improving old ones. Look at recent Microsoft releases: we don't fix old features, but accrete new ones. New features help much more at review time than improvements to old ones.

(That's literally the explanation for PowerShell. Many of us wanted to improve cmd.exe, but couldn't.)"
Wow is that some serious twilight zone BS. It takes exactly two clicks to find the information MisterWebz found. Information that was put there to be found. You don't even leave HN.

Is it also "sneaking around" if I click on your username and discover your real name, twitter username, blog URL, and email address, all that you voluntarily put there for the public?

If I open a phonebook and find someone's number, was I "sneaking around"?
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I'm wondering if this will go beyond just wearables and touch on the overall presentation of the brand. Bring that 'wow' back to unboxing apple products.
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Everything is awesome until you stop doing general stuff. Once I started digging into more complex MDX queries in SSAS (calculated fields) the story started to be quite different.
I have been doing Win dev since 1993 so I could tell you a lot of stories...
> What threat to national security could or would the CIA curtail by bugging Ecuador's embassy in London?

Possible communications to/from Julian Assange?
Maybe the French don't care what his motives were? I think I'd be generally disinclined to support people who publish state secrets if I were running a government.

But I'm not sure why you're confused. You disagree that he is a wanted fugitive? Or with my characterization that he's "desperately" wanted? I think the US would very much like him to return and face charges.
Bug 689623's fix is re-enabled in FF24, which is currently in Aurora. It goes a long way towards fixing the problems with image-heavy pages. And bug 847223 should fix them completely once it's done; there are numerous patches but some haven't passed code review, so it's unclear how much longer it'll take.
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You assume that would remove confusion. If anything it might add to it.
it should play the video when you hover
This frustrated me for twenty minutes before I decided to check their blog. The in-app error was not very useful, but I liked the response. I'm on iOS, so I installed one of the (free) third party apps, and at least I can use my feed.

It definitely adds to the frustrations inherent in the Apple App Store walled garden though...
Resharper can definitely bog things down, especially in big Razor pages.

But as you and the parent pointed out, I've also seen huge improvements in build times with VS2012.

And with VS2013 we finally get edit-n-continue on x64.
Every time the US, UK, or other 'western' governments announce a foiled terror attack or suspected plot, a significant portion of the HN community is vocally skeptical. I hope that skepticism persists even when it goes the other direction.

I think it's pretty likely that the bug came from the US or one of our allies but its absolutely possible that it didn't. Everyone has home grown political enemies and this would be an excellent time for a false flag to capitalize on a prominent news story.
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I agree with your statement of selection bias.

For a good recent read on this subject, I'd suggest Foreign Policy: New Flash, States Spy on Each Other http://walt.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2013/07/01/news_flash_st...
The US government appears to be absolutely terrified of this 29-year-old former NSA contractor.

No it doesn't, really. I believe this is wishful thinking on your part, but see no evidence of it. You believe the US somehow planted this bug in the Ecuadorian embassy just in case Snowden ended up there? America isn't the only country in the world that bugs embassies and even so, where's the proof this particular bug is that new?
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This sort of explains why I never felt phantom vibrations before, but after getting a new phone that has a weak vibration motor on it, I started imagining vibrations quite often. My body was just upping its sensitivity to account for the poor product design!
There are other studies that have compared the offerings on multiple benchmarks as well. Here's the one I was referring to: https://zapier.com/engineering/quick-redis-benchmark-aws-vs-... see the comparison for yourself on multiple benchmarks.
Ah -- that sure is true. Part of my post has been invalidated.

I think the point about expecting every embassy to be bugged being a dangerously lax attitude remains valid, though.
Find one person who needs this like they need oxygen. Ask them to tell their friends. Bonus points if they have a higher than average profile / fan base / etc at the moment. Repeat.

If you cannot find one person who needs this like they need oxygen, it is highly likely that it is (regrettably) not the case that many people would enjoy this if they just knew about it. This suggests a simple and effective criteria for building products in the future, because you don't need to have the website actually coded to extract signal on "Do you need this like you need oxygen?" from people.

(Instagram/Vine pass this test in spades: while you could pick many, many potential use-cases, "Hey 14 year old popular girl, would you like to get constant public positive feedback from weakly attached friends?")
He certainly chose his counsel well.
That's exactly it, Scott. In my day gig, I regularly see these kinds of bureaucratic waste stories surface about fairly innocuous things taken out of context, showing up on sites like the Examiner or the Daily Caller or Politico. They're meant to rile folks up and get them angry, because they draw traffic and such.

But when you dig a little deeper, the scooplets at times don't tend to stand up to scrutiny. (An example of this from a couple of years ago, involving a "$16 muffin": http://sfbne.ws/122aqOr )

In this case, the two-percent engagement number is a huge tell, because if you were to say 40,000 users or whatever it is, it wouldn't sound nearly as much like a waste of money.

And if you were to put this in context of what other marketing companies pay to get on Facebook, as well as the per-user costs they were paying, especially compared to other marketing venues, you might find that this is actually the most effective form of marketing for them. (How much did they spend on TV/magazine/other forms of outreach in the past? And what was their success rate?)

I'm not saying that this isn't a huge waste of money or time—it may still turn out to be, and a big one at that—but we aren't being given all of the variables here, and being asked to base this entire story on one side of the claims.

Remember—in D.C. political media, sometimes you won't hear the other side of the story, so being skeptical and not taking things at face value is probably for the best.
Would Google be more, or less, scattered if it shut down search and Gmail?

Anyway, I thought this was some discussion about how Google may or may not be making a decision that will later in hindsight turn out to been bad for Google, followed by a tangent about whether anyone is allowed to make qualitative statements about any decision made by Google.

The tangent seemed sufficiently uninteresting before it descended further into an argument of semantics.
The backed-out-of-FF22 patch has been fixed and is present and enabled in FF24 (currently in Aurora).

> all downloaded images are decoded and live forever regardless of if they are shown.

Nope. Before the backed-out-of-FF22 patch landed, all images in a page were decoded and kept in memory as long as that page was in the foreground. But if you switched to another tab, the decoded images would be discarded.

With the backed-out-of-FF22 patch in place, most images that are downloaded are decoded temporarily, but those that aren't visible are discarded quickly.

When bug 847223 is done, the not-visible images won't even be decoded on page loading.

So, to summarize: in FF24, on image-heavy pages you'll see a memory spike on first load, but it'll quickly drop down. And once bug 847223 is done (hopefully soon, though these things are hard to predict), you won't even see that spike.
Throwing your Mercedes transmission into neutral should not lock your steering wheel...hopefully.
Yep, this is it :)
Wow, a fake rock? I can hardly believe this actually happened in a serious context.
In the last few days, Apple has trademarked "iWatch" in many countries around the globe. So it's real. Having someone with experience in "stuff people wear" makes good sense.
I know you didn't say that. Read my post more carefully.

Though actually, you're close to saying it here:

"[I]t is they who are making claims about which is more likely, given a lack of evidence in either direction."

If you lack evidence in either direction, your estimate of likelihood should be at your priors. If your mental model assigns the same prior probability to assassination as to car accidents, it's likely broken.

I recommend reading through http://lesswrong.com/lw/19m/privileging_the_hypothesis
not in neutral
Clapper Apologizes For Answer On NSA's Data Collection
The article says it's free.
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But that's mostly due to the much lower volume and volatility (rather than more competition). When its low, so is the demand for liquidity provision. But that demand will come back with the next volatility cycle.

Actually, volatility is only clustered when measured in calendar time. Its much more constant when measured in event/transaction time (plot price against cumulative volume, rather than date/time).
I did bother looking. Why isn't it conspicuously declared on their website? For that matter, why are you averse to supporting your argument with links?

As for their bylaws, I did find those before I wrote my remarks above. Besides the fact that github is not exactly a standard place for posting corporate information, it still doesn't include things like the address of the Seattle offices.

This is the entity data file with the Distict of Columbia: https://corp.dcra.dc.gov/BizEntity.aspx/ViewEntityData?entit... ...you may need to create an account to view this.

Map: https://www.google.com/maps/preview#!q=5431+41st+Pl+NW%2C+Wa...

The Bitcoin Foundation has not filed any documents with the SEC according to an SEC EDGAR search, nor can I find any existing IRS 990 record. I'm not a lawyer, and especially not a corporate lawyer, but I think you're required to file with those entities if you're a company and if you're claiming nonprofit status, respectively. Why haven't they done so, and why doesn't their website have any of that information available?

As for why the state of CA is involved, the fact that the BF has organized a conference in San Jose seems sufficient to establish minimum contact required to say that the company has operations in California.
Well, this comment made me think. It's not every day you get called a potential NSA provocateur. But I'm not sure what you're suggesting with respect to my future comments. When I comment on political topics, I have a couple motivations: to shine light on a potentially bleak-looking situation, and to bounce ideas off a community of incredibly smart people. Are you saying I should avoid any kind of speculation? That might be reasonable, but sticking to hard facts doesn't make the situation look much better. If you count Julian Assange as a journalist, high-ranking members of the government have not been shy about making death threats against him. And the recent story about Barrett Brown should give anyone pause. I'm not asking rhetorically; I'd seriously like to know what you're suggesting.
This is not what I have read before about the US constitution. It was very clear at the time the constitution was ratified by the States that they would keep their sovereignty and therefore have a right to secede. Why would it be otherwise, in a country that fought for its independence in the first place?

http://www.wnd.com/2012/11/secession-its-constitutional/

It's not because there was the Civil War that the Civil War outcome was Lawful. The Southern States had the right to secede and that right was not recognized by Lincoln.
Love avacado. A coworker pointed it out just before valentines day, and now it's the default way my wife and I text each other.
Ask HN: Unsure where to go from here
Hey there guys and gals,

I'm posting here as I browse frequently and figured I'd get some good responses.

I'm from Melbourne, and I've just turned 18. I'm not sure what I want to pursue or how to go about it. I've got 3+ years of experience in Penetration Testing/Web Security but no actual qualifications. There are massive gaps in my knowledge and I'm not sure if I should be trying to get an internship or get a qualification of some kind. Any advice would be great at this point. I also haven't learnt a programming language (I've learnt what was essentially required during Penetration tests). Does anyone have any suggestions as to what language to pick up, and if so which one to start with?

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I think Google would be wise to offer a discontinued product to the creator. If they have no interest in Reader any more, then Wetherell should be offered the product.

Possibly he would need to pay something for it (preferably over a long term) or he would be given the source, but absolutely no users / user data.

That way they get innovators to dream big ideas like AdSense, but if those ideas are rejected or later shuttered, the innovator gets to keep his idea.
This is a better way to look at the salaries.

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