skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ah, but AT&T did not publicise the endpoint in any way either, unlike Mailinator.

More to the point, users using Mailinator do not have an expectation of privacy regarding the data they gave Mailinator (or that they told other services to give Mailinator). This is, therefore, a different situation.

If I find someone's personal information in Mailinator, that is most likely because a user agreed to allow a service to send their personal information there. In most cases, I wouldn't have any reason to believe any of this data was not intended to be there, unless there were other clues.

In the case of the AT&T breach, two things lead me to believe that Weev violated the privacy of the users:

* It is quite unlikely that users intended to have their email addresses published to the public through this endpoint, and it can easily be shown that Weev understood that - he would not otherwise have chosen the course of action he took.

* AT&T have never publicised this endpoint.

I am not holding AT&T as the victim here, but rather the customers of AT&T whose data was breached. AT&T and Weev were equally complicit in the breach, and AT&T should be held separately responsible.
> If women really aren't naturally more comfortable in settings that society has dictated to them, why were those positions dictated to them in the first place?

The context in which women live now is not the same as when the roles emerged; so, even if one assumes that there was a very good reason for the roles in the context in which they emerged, that doesn't imply that one must believe that reason continues to hold in the present context.
I'm sorry but as soon as you accuse someone of being a shill or try to dismiss someone's comments because of fanboyism, you lose all credibility for pretty much the next 10 years of your life. There aren't enough downvotes in the world for that crap.
so here's the solution.
1) Make a website called "freeweev.com" or something
2) Put some legal mumbojumbo at the bottom of the site that says something about unauthorized usage of this website is a crime.
3) Make the post-signup page URL look something like this:
http://freeweev.com/?id=12

That simply says "Your email: ...@gmail.com will be updated when we have info on the case. Thanks for your interest"
4) Let people "find this"
5) Get lots of people to report on the problem
6) Fix the problem after the press gets it
7) Freeweev.com takes everyone to criminal court under CFAA. No lawyers necessary, just tell the Judge that there appears to be no difference in these cases as the AT&T case, all of these people that hacked our site should go to jail for 41 months.
Also make sure that this involves MANY people.
8) Legal breakdown, no software development for anyone (like the screen-writers strike right?)
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I was talking about the current generation.
Thank you for putting into words exactly how I've felt lately. It's not just Microsoft's past that's turned me off them - patent trolling Android manufacturers and other recent activities have basically solidified in my head that I will not choose Microsoft if I have a choice.

I'd be willing to put the past behind me if they Just Stopped with all of this crap.
Now you can increase that to 6 parts since Linode increased to 6 cores :)
Doctors are not as interchangeable as say assembly line workers, doctors have different levels of experience and different specializations as well as relationships with patients in cases of more general doctors.

Besides there is a relatively small pool of people compared to the general population who are even capable of becoming doctors, not to mention the very long spin up time.

An analogy would be breaking down the tasks performed by a doctor into chunks that could be done in isolation by minimum wage workers.
Enjoy your departure.
Oops, I was looking at the fill rate benchmark, but I see that the cubes benchmark does in fact use the CanvasRenderer, and this is the benchmark Tom's Hardware reports to have used. Sorry for the noise.
This times a thousand. Debugging ndk on Android is one of the worst development experiences I've ever had.
It's also in his XKCD store if you want to make Randall a few bucks: http://store.xkcd.com/products/money-poster
Being prolific doesn't make one talented, this article has quite a few of his illustrations, and they simply aren't very good. His work doesn't show unique signs of genius, they just look like the same types of drawings produced by people who are still learning to draw.

Anyone on the planet with a hand can learn to draw at a professional level. It just takes time and thousands of hours of practice. Andy Warhol didn't put in the hours, and because of that his drawings aren't very good. If you can point to a drawing or painting he did that doesn't look like it came from a middle-school art show, I'd love to see it.

http://99designs.com/designer-blog/2012/03/29/andy-warhol-co...
I appreciate the time you spent to make that informative post, and as a professional software developer I also appreciate the value of good bug reports. However, IME this simply isn't true:

People put a huge amount of time into working around, and complaining about, cross browser issues. Devoting a small fraction of that time to submitting regression tests instead would dramatically decrease the number of problems in the future.

The effort required for a regular user to file a bug report in the major browsers is insane. The bug trackers involved are among the most user-hostile and over-complicated interfaces I have ever encountered.

Developers move to six-weekly releases with at least three different flavours in the works at any given time, and then expect people running the regular browser to install a completely different version of the software to test things before filing bug reports. This is insane.

In Firefox's case in particular, users are often asked to create a new profile, which AFAIK still requires command-line hackery and, from direct personal experience, carries a significant risk of corrupting or destroying your regular profile even if you follow the instructions to the letter. This is insane.

And even if users do make the Herculean effort required to create a minimal test case, install the latest development versions of the browser, create a clean profile if necessary, confirm that the bug still happens, and fight through the bug tracker to file a report, there is still no guarantee that anything will actually be done about it. Quality of implementation is obviously not the priority for several of the major browser developers, certainly not Mozilla and Google, and major bugs and site-breaking regressions are frequently ignored for very long periods while shiny new features no-one is actually going to use in production for years and another 0.3642% performance boost in JavaScript are prioritised.

As I said, I'm a professional software developer, and as such I appreciate the value of good bug reports and feedback from users, and I hate it when users make blanket criticisms. But Mozilla and Google are among the most user-hostile organisations on the software landscape in this respect, and until they fundamentally change their approach, I don't see this situation improving. Meanwhile, their users, and those of us trying to develop web sites and applications to support those users against a constantly moving and frequently breaking target, are the ones who lose out.

For the record, I debated whether to post this. Ranting on public forums is rarely constructive. But in this case, I think the presumption that it takes much less time to file good bug reports than to find workarounds must be challenged, or the situation isn't going to improve. For someone who isn't a regular contributor, following the guidelines to file a bug report in the way that Mozilla and co would like isn't the five minute job it should be, it's closer to a five hour job, and I think sometimes the developers/regular contributors/bleeding edge alpha testers don't even realise that.
slavery do not always mean that you can kill someone.

Many times in history when slavery was legal, it was forbidden to kill the slave, in fact when slavery is NOT legal that this is more frequent (for example here in Brazil, I already did some research on present day slavery, and here most slaves end dead, usually killed after they are not useful anymore, so that they don't tell the police about the slave owner).

I think that yes, being allowed to arbitrarily kill anyone (pay attention to arbitrarily) is evil, this applies to US drone strikes. But arbitrariety is not evil, neither is kill someone, the combination of them that might be.
Anything gate instantly makes me think of scandal. May not matter but just a heads-up.
What does "being massive tools" mean?
Maybe because Webkit is open source and was developed independently?
It's not a single point of departure fic, many of the characters are deliberately significantly different.
I thank your bad mood for brightening up mine!

That was spectacular and joyful to read and I agree wholeheartedly. The sad thing is that when I was "designing for IE" as a young lad, I had no idea that's what I was doing. "The browser" was what came with the computer and that was Netscape and later IE. It took a while to wean myself off of :

if (document.all) { }

And when I discovered other continents to explore, I realized I was living in a desolate quarter of Antarctica.
It seems that Microsoft is sinking to a new low, turning Windows from a "poorly debugged set of device drivers" to an ad-supported product that you have to pay for.
You should definitely make it easy for them to "like" the store they are in while they are on their visit.

I understand that searching for he business on the mobile device would work, but if there was faster way, you should consider adding it as an upgrade.
Proton's failure rate is concerning given that it is meant to deliver the last major segment of the ISS at the end of this year.
I have an SSD, Firefox still takes a few seconds to open. Chrome is instant.
Everything about Windows 8 to me just feels like a kick in the groin from Microsoft. For many years now they've claimed that .Net was the present and future of Microsoft development; yet it seems they've shoved it into the back seat and likely next into the trunk of deprecation.
I recommend submitting pull requests to open source projects. You'll often get recommendations from the open source maintainers that'll help you get a sense of where you are coding-wise. It'll also be a chance to do something good.
In a way it has happened already with the XBox. After (in my opinion) winning the previous generation of console wars, they set out to ignore their main audience to appeal to the ones their marketing team has decide to target. The only thing I really liked seeing from MS recently was Sharepoint 2013, which really is very good, especially for developers.
not sure what vim has to do with visual studio, but you can jump to definition in vim f.ex using python mode https://github.com/klen/python-mode#default-keys
This makes the assumption that these users were using the Reader web interface. I'd bet a good number were using it simply as a sync backend.
Those of you who made the switch from EC2 to any of the other providers, what are you missing the most? I'm right now pretty integrated into the whole VPC/Route53/IAM/S3/SES web and get the feeling that it'd be pretty rough to untangle myself from that.
In "general" under "preferences", you can select whether the browser restores tabs from last time it was exited. Maybe that somehow get set to something besides "Show my windows and tabs from last time"?
Same here. I worked as a temp one summer during college (for two agencies). The dehumanization was absolutely the worst part: at one point I was staffed at a warehouse on a line shipping vitamins to people across the US. We mostly worked in awkward silence, as fast as we possibly could. This was punctuated by periods where a manager would gather and berate us for going too slowly.

My other favorite experience was working for a large energy drink supplier (you've heard of them), transferring cartons of drinks from pallets to other, differently-sized pallets, while 2-3 dudes in polos sat in a corner and chatted, occasionally laughing.

It gave me chills to read this and remember what it's like to work harder than you ever have before, and still be treated as a nameless soulless entity.
"By finally removing the evidence of past mistakes..."

I think it's worth pointing out that these removed bits aren't evidence of past mistakes at all. They're left over from a time before the standards were defined by the W3C. At this point, and it is about time, they should rightly be removed, and the standard/common way should prevail. That doesn't mean a given feature was rooted in a mistake.

I think the biggest issue is you should only target a given browser when you have to. Once in a while you come across a bug that only presents itself in a specific browser and version. A good thing about frequent/forced updates is you have to support older browsers less and less. Unfortunately XP was locked out at IE8, and Vista at IE9... Vista won't go away for at least 4-5 more years. I think the biggest danger in the older versions of IE tied to windows is that those people don't upgrade. It's just in the past 2 years that IE6 & IE7 can safely be ignored.

I remember the IE4-6 days... back then, IE was better... Where they deserve the vitriol is when it comes to letting their browsers stagnate for close to 6 years. And finally, with IE10/11 are they even catching up. It really bugs me that they put so much attention into accelerated canvas support before they finished a lot of CSS features that are more likely to be used. Gradients for example, the old ie gradients + rounded corners is broken even IE9, not sure about IE10-11 as I've taken to using SVG gradients as they are more consistent everywhere.

It also sucks that running multiple versions of IE is pretty much impossible. ex: the scripting engine is always the newer version, so even using multiple IE's a live bug on the real version may not present itself.

I know how/why we are here, that said I still don't think that we should call decisions past that weren't thought of by anyone as mistakes at the time as such now. I remember the v4 browser days (IE4/NN4 not HTML4), it wasn't near as pleasant as now even with IE8-10.
And it's really bad practice (at least in Haskell) to truly break immutability. Uses of unsafePerformIO are strongly urged to be "observationally immutable, pure, safe, transparent".
> What kind of reality do you live in where malicious intent to cause harm to someone or some group should not be a crime?

It depends somewhat on what you class as malice. Starting a business is usually a deliberate attempt to cause harm to competitors, and success at it may well cause thousands of people to lose their jobs, etc.
The communists did call their organization 'International Workingmen's Association', the first international, in 1864. In fact, I think that the nationalist/internationalist question is what most closely resembles the traditional left/right axis of politics.
It's about fat tails, which is probably why it doesn't include platykurtic distributions.
A "tool" in this context is something to be avoided :

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=tool
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At least in American slang "a tool" is synonymous with someone who is rude, uncaring, and generally arrogant. A "massive tool" is someone who takes all of those properties up a level.
On Harry being a Mary Sue: That kind of depends what meaning you use.

If you mean the self-insertion, I think that's not too bad. Yes, Harry's reasoning is similar to Yudkowski's, but that's kind of the whole point of the fic. It's not like Harry is a copy of EY himself.

If you mean being idealized and overpowered, I agree. The only part so far where things went wrong because he didn't think fast enough or consider all the possibilities is in the most recent chapters.

On it not updating often enough:
Totally, but up to chapter 96 will be released over the next few days, so you may want to stick around for a little longer.
It is actually well documented that males, independent of environmental influences, prefer "masculine" toys, such as trucks, while girls prefer dolls. While it's nice to think about nurture instead of nature, there are innate traits of each gender. Don't make the huge mistake in thinking that lead to David Reimer's suicide: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Reimer

Here is an article citing several studies:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/homo-consumericus/201212...
So does that make Lucius a prequel protagonist, given the previous war? (Trying not to spoil.)
Unfortunately, the fact that you're paying for a product isn't a particularly better signal that it's sustainable, unless you individually can cover the costs of running that product. I've had for-pay services I used discontinued because they weren't profitable or because they were bought by another company and deprecated (Slicehost) even though they were profitable.

It seems like a better strategy is to assume that no service or company is forever, and demand reasonable ways to export your data or setup in the event they shut down (and time to do that export before they turn off.)
> Apple didn't license WebKit. Apple created WebKit, by forking Konqueror's engine

Of course, you're right. I was typing this faster than I was thinking..

Anyway, MS shouldn't even think of pulling something like this, on second thought---because rather than a render-engine replacement, it would end up as yet another "mode" in IE..

> Chrome doesn't update without restarting

Of course the binary cannot replace itself while running -- ((although with each tab being its own process and their highly persistent statefulness they might consider silently "rebooting" background tabs)) -- but, well at my end / from my experience, Chrome doesn't restart itself and doesn't prompt about restarting, in most cases -- rather seems to wait until the next time it is restarted by the user. Maybe I get that wrong, but if my memory recalls this as Chrome's auto-update user-experience, that's a feat one way or the other..
White House petition to protect Tesla from auto dealers close to 100k signatures
The kind where squabbles between two private parties are civil matters until and unless someone commits (or conspires to commit) an actual crime?

Particularly when the "harm" here is harm of reputation due the target's public actions? If I assemble a bunch of potentially-reputation-harming data on a public figure and post it on the internet with the clear intent of convincing people that public figure is incompetent, should that be an act that can get me landed in jail? Or is that speech?

Is the automated collection of that data really a thing that should be criminalized? Should it be criminal because or only when it includes identifying information of innocent bystanders?

This is publicly-available information.
Performance between VPS's from the same provider varies wildly.

This absolutely should not be true, and in my experience it isn't true on Amazon -- you will neither be starved for resources if others do intensive things, nor will you enjoy riches if they are quiet: You will get what you are paying for.

I have a personal experience from Digital Ocean that is a bit different. Firstly let me say that I think they have a great service and compelling prices, but I set up a test server (the 2GB/2CPU variant) to trial leveraging it in the platform mix, as a solution that crosses host providers = awesomeness.

The IO performance I got was terrible, despite all of the talk about SSDs. Simple operations would stall, the CPU endlessly waiting on wa. I submitted a support ticket and quickly they toggled some priority flags and I started getting performance more along the the lines of expectations, but ultimately it seems like a classic case where single tenants can completely monopolize the platform, enjoying the entirety of the storage platform at the cost of everyone else. I'd rather that they cap consumption and do appropriate IO quanta allocations rather than leaving VMs starved.

And it really makes me concerned for the future -- do I have to constantly do benchmarks and analysis, hopping VMs just to find one that isn't an abomination? That isn't how these things are supposed to run.
...which would be detrimental to Microsoft. Limiting our options to theirs is precisely their goal by giving us a great IDE that only works on Windows.

They're never gonna go it. They stand to win nothing from that.
EC2 always comes out behind in these comparisons. However, EC2's benefit is the synergy of the platform: painless images, flexible volume management, VPC, programmatic DNS, queue services, Heroku style service, baked-in Chef support, easy RDBMS cloning and replication, etc.
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Has anyone used Cloud66 or Cloudfoundry to deploy to either of these (Linode, AWS, Digital Ocean)?

I'm about to deploy an app and I would like to get other impressions.
Not exactly. Here's a quote from the article: "The watch is lovely. Truly. Considering that I paid $125 for it - a reasonable price considering its potential - I'm happy with it and would recommend it."

http://www.hanselman.com/blog/SmartWatchesAreFinallyGoingToH...
I was responding to your claim that he spent most of his time doing narcotics and socializing. He did not do narcotics and spent most of his time doing art.
You've just confused motivation, learning style, and competence in your comment. The article yesterday could be considered to be about learning style (it is certainly about the ability of eight-year-olds to sit still). The gender gap in technical fields is heavily influenced by societal views -- in 1984 37% of computer science majors in the US were female, and it's been declining ever since, and in Malaysia women are (close to?) outnumbering men in CS/IT. And then you discuss motivation, which is different. I don't believe it was discussed in a scientific way in the Atlantic article, although it has been studied elsewhere.

Your comment fails to address the point of the study. Women who take someone else's name do better on math tests. Since they didn't magically change their genetic makeup or knowledge base in minutes, the implication is that unconscious beliefs are influencing performance. No one has "implie[d] statistics are unfounded"; you've simply conflated several separate issues.

You are correct that if "women tend to be less interested in math, they will reach their mathematical potential less often." Today's post, though, reveals that it's not all about interest or motivation.