skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you try to use Google Cloud Connect you'll find that it's too buggy to use for more than 15 minutes.
It sounds like your argument is a preference for a pre-written parser library over having to write the parser yourself. Yeah, sure, no one would disagree with that for day to day use. It's when you don't have the pre-written library available that a text-only protocol will save your day.
someone upthread defined it as "action real time strategy"
Citing a Culture of “Verified Trust,” DefCon Asks Feds Not to Come
I know what he meant, otherwise snark wouldn't have been necessary.

He's basically saying that because there was one CIO somewhere, anywhere, in the Federal government that it's appropriate to tar every military and civil servant with that same 'idiot' brush.

I mean, I'm assuming you would be offended if someone said that all computer hackers have my own personal morals, so it seems wise to only blame people for what they actually do, not their seventh-order relationships to other people.
>This is a sad comment on the state of consumer hardware

And also incorrect. A system crashing on a combined Linpack/Furmark load is defective or contains a defective component. Even extremely thermally-limited laptops do not suffer from this due to protection mechanisms.
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It's a significantly better game than the festering, cancerous legion of predatory money extracting non-games that have turned the iOS and Android app stores into cesspits of addiction and credit card fraud.

Okay, I get that you don't like freemium, but those games are still more fun than Desert Bus.
I applaud Jeff's (DarkTangent) stance on this. I've been to 7 Defcons now and the Feds have always been treated fairly. Even the media has been treated with respect, so long as they are transparent and honest about being media [1]. Honesty and openness have been betrayed this year with the Snowden leaks, and I'm glad people are finally taking a stand.

I'm curious other security conventions will take the same stance.

[1] One year a reporter disguised herself as an attendee instead of admitting she was a reporter, and was attempting to get hackers on record saying that they've hacked into <this> and <that> important system. She was found out and summarily chased (literally) out the convention.
"Strategies" that involve throwing around lots of money, like buying a new car every 6 months, never seem that clever to me.
it is safe to assume that Google record IP information (among other things) from Google Adsense and Google Analytics... which you probably visit at least one site that use one or the other at least once a day..
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I would have someone who is in business look at your resume and give you feedback. In fact get a few people to look at it!

PS There are books you can read on how to solve a gap, or even articles you can find if you just googled it...
> It's also a terribly wasteful and poor engineered protocol for anything other than fetching documents.

I wonder if that was the original purpose of the protocol;)
What, exactly, prevents a binary protocol definition from being overly flexible and complex? I've seen quite a few like that, and I've seen quite a few simple and easy to parse text protocols.
He mentioned it briefly, along with Australian Aborigines as well as a population from the Philippines who displays a notable share of Denisovan DNA (around 2.5%, versus ~5% in the Melanesians).
As hackers we have an ethical obligation to refuse service to tyrants and dictators. Like mercenaries who profiteer off war, we should ostracize those who act against humanity.
It depends on what you are optimizing for. In his case, I presume it was privacy.
Life begins to suck more every day, soon everyone will know everything about all of us. I wonder what an open source life will be like.
What an abrupt ending... no resolution or anything, just this random tidbit!

"Larry insisted to come back and drive us to the airport. When he aggressively honked at a city bus driver for trying to cut him, this felt like a life lesson for me"
personalized searches is the second thing that I hate most about Google search ... the first being not being able to use the "+" and "-" operators... thanks to Google+ (it happened at the same time)
Online course on In-Memory data management
Lesson learned: don't hire gingers as tech support
To be fair to Desert Bus, it's bad on purpose.
Is there a Lua/openresty client on the horizon?
Will this actually affect the feds ability to attend or will they just attend in plain clothes? Or will they be able to attend as feds and just be looked down upon?
Agree 90%. I picked up Awesomenauts in the HIB, and it's been a pleasant overall experience so far. However, their matchmaking leaves a bit to be desired. After a half-dozen games, we were matched with a tier 3 prestige'd player who single-handedly destroyed us.
A lot of Amazon.com is still Perl...
By Rep. Rush Holt, D-NJ, who's running for Senator and facing Cory Booker in the NJ primary.

Not a lot of details so far ...

Soon, I will introduce legislation that would repeal the laws that brought us our current “surveillance state”: the Patriot Act and the FISA Amendments Act. My bill would restore the probable cause-based warrant requirement for any surveillance against an American citizen being proposed on the basis of an alleged threat to the nation. And it would, for the first time, provide genuine legal protections for the Thomas Drakes of the world.
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There are products designed to obscure license plates from mounted cameras while still being visible in most circumstances. I can't vouch for their effectiveness, though, and Mythbusters didn't have any success when they tested some in 2007.

http://www.buyradardetectors.com/blog/2009/03/the_great_lice...

I wonder if there are other methods that could be used just to break automatic OCR?
Maybe the creepy illuminati hoodie makes more sense now.
Funny how no one points out that it was a government agency that uncovered this issue in the first place...
And that wasn't my point at all. My point being gang on gang violence perpetuated by societal issues (say for Chicago black gang members) isn't a great comparison of 2.7 million people in Chicago and N deaths/murders versus N million people in $western_country with N/4 murders isn't really describing the issues. It alludes the issues as being related to things which are fundamentally different and not directly or easily statistically comparable.
The Fine Line Between Art and Design
I'm extremely impressed with DarkTangent, this must have been a difficult move for him to make, especially given that the NSA Director(DernZa) was the keynote speaker at the last defcon. He is probably getting a mountain range of shit right now from the feds.

" Over the past two decades, hackers at Defcon and the feds have been circling each other suspiciously. The nation's top "spook" -- National Security Agency Director Gen. Keith Alexander -- giving a keynote at the hacker confab, shows just how much tensions have mellowed." http://news.cnet.com/8301-1009_3-57481689-83/nsa-director-fi...

Things don't look so mellow anymore.
Back roads sound more pleasant than the same length trek on a highway.
If I were him, I'd read titles before I click on them. Or you know, avoid HN entirely.

Or quit.
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Fair enough, but the whole idea of following people to find content just makes it harder to find content on G+. On Reddit, you pick the topics that interest you and the best content (in theory at least) gets upvoted.

Both Twitter and Reddit (and HN) pack a ton of info into small spaces so it's very quick to scroll through and pick up new stuff, which is a major problem with G+. The same info may be on G+ but, in my experience, it's a lot harder to find. (And if do I find it, it's already been tweeted to death.)

Incidentally, it wasn't me who thought G+ should replace other services! I do think it started as an attempt to replace Facebook, but as far as I can see, it isn't a good substitute for anything I already use. Worse, it doesn't have any unique attractions (unless you want Hangouts, which I don't).
Don't you know the golden rule of Perl. Firstly its not replaceable, secondly anything that tries to replace it largely looks and feels like it.
Thank you! That's a really good point. We'll be adding a Commodities watchlist in the near future!

Are there any particular tickers that you use? With oil, there's spot and futures. The ones on yahoo are mostly futures dated the next month. It would be more involved to have to keep updating it monthly as opposed to an index.

It would probably be more straightforward to use an index like
iPath S&P GSCI Crude Oil TR Index ETN (OIL)

What do you think? Thanks!
For those who want it in a single file (40MB zipped):

http://www.sendspace.com/file/5sns0f
I live in LA, and I see cars without plates every day, often multiple times a day. When I do, I habitually check for temporary tags. They never, ever have them. It's bizarre--you'd think that driving without plates would be a guaranteed way to get yourself pulled over constantly. How does this work?

If getting yourself surveilled by private parties due to your visible license plate becomes a thing, I can see the temptation for people to start removing them in protest.
> Office already has features to track and merge different copies of documents together

Only for MS Word I'm afraid.. :( (unless you want to buy a sharepoint deployment for the other products, and that versioning stuff is REALLY clunky!)
It's the combined effects of

- their unawareness of BitTorrent (the Galapagos effect)

- the unwillingness to/difficulty of using English-language torrent sites

- a lack of Japanese champions of BT

BT simply never took off there, and Freenet hasn't taken off anywhere from what I know. I recall coming across a single BT site that was being used by a small but significant number of Japanese, which was surprising, but everything we heard indicated that WinNY and Share dominated there. Similarly, BT isn't a major player in Korea (which has its own networks), but dominates in China. The Internet is a series of interconnected but independently evolving regions.

Also, people will keep using a risky network if the chance of arrest is low and the benefits substantial enough. Humans are lazy, after all.
No more great ideas going down the drain
A paranoid, incompetent IT team plus an opportunistic "cybersecurity" contractor.
The folks at Sisoft have written up about the changes and included some examples of the performance difference it can make:

http://www.sisoftware.co.uk/?d=qa&f=ben_mem_hle
Fascinating.

How hard would this part be?

> But surely you could simply test the hardware

Scanning system devices would reveal it pretty quickly if it's just an additional USB device.
"Begun, the 0wn wars have."
Tsarnaev pleads not guilty
Feds always attend in plain clothes so this effectively does nothing. I also wonder if a Fed only means investigative or law enforcement type Feds or also includes federally employed IT peoples.
I keep hearing this near-urban legend about him trading cars in frequently (even citing a former Apple security guy), but I'm pretty sure it's not true.

You're correct about the plates, but it's 90 days. However, in the Bay Area, there are so many new vehicles that there's no reason to think that a reasonably shiny late-model car isn't within that 90 day period. I drove my new car up and down CA-101 for almost a year without bothering to put them on. You can press your luck for as long as you'd like. The fix-it ticket is a bit of a hassle since you need to find a cop to sign you off. Or you can just pay the significantly higher fine (several hundred I think).

Also, for a man who parked in any open handicapped space in the parking lot whenever he wanted, I'm pretty sure he didn't care much about staying strictly within the law.

One additional point worth noting that the MB SL55 he drove was last produced in 2006. Yet, here's a photo of his car in 2010 -- an SL55: http://gizmodo.com/5503004/steve-jobs-and-eric-schmidt-spott.... Surely he would have traded up to an SL65 if he bought a car from 2006 onward?
Actually, we use socat.
If you assume a company doesn't want to port games, but decide to support linux at the beginning of their development cycle, we'd really need to wait a few years for proper titles. That is making the assumption they are interested right now though, which is less than likely.

However, there are currently many indie games available for linux. Even some well-known hits, like Kerbel Space Program and Surgeon Simulator (by chance, they both happen to use the Unity engine, which natively includes linux support).

Just out of interest, what was the timeline for OSX steam like? I don't use a Mac, so I'm not sure.
Why You Should Aspire to be a Security Guard
We're thinking of an up-sell strategy. Our team has a lot of financial experience (ex-wall street), and there are many advanced products such as portfolio analytics, diversification metrics and risk ratios etc. that we could sell.

A basic stocks app is our way of reaching our target audience.

To be honest though, this is more a guess that anything else. Hopefully we won't have to do banner ads without the app. Those are really ugly.
The reason you don't use tail sitters is because they have much less payload capacity. In that configuration the engine has to be able to output thrust greater than the entire weight of the aircraft. Something like the 737 has a thrust to weight ratio of only 0.25 (you need greater than 1 to take off vertically).

A more direct comparison: A fully loaded standard F-35 has a thrust to weight ratio of 0.87 (that is with the afterburners on). In comparison the short take of and landing version of the F-35 loses 43% payload of its and 25% of it's fuel capacity (and thus range) [1].

1 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed_Martin_F-35_Lightning_...
Reddit is certainly variable, but I often find the debates interesting. On G+, I mostly see people on soapboxes: it's not so much debate as the defending of entrenched positions....
Offsite tape backup can approach that price, but I don't know of any exact alternatives. It would certainly fulfill the requirement of having two different media types and providers.

http://www.dpbestflow.org/backup/backup-overview
The Extend Concept
Yes, we are. We might have to move to a proper paid service like BATS when this gets bigger.

http://www.quora.com/Stocks-financial/Where-do-sites-such-as...
In have to tell you, it warms my skeptic heart to see HN so damn discerning over all this info regarding the true state of the world; HN has really surprised me at how many people here are really paying attention!!
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I'm sure other cash rich companies can mimic amazon strategy. Apple,google, microsoft, samsung certainly can. That is not good for industry though. Startups will have unbelievably tough time competing with Amazon. I cant remember any startup in recent times that ventured into ebook sales. Innvoation from other startups in ebooks creation, consumption is hard to come by, when amazon is playing a lossleader strategy forever.
Seguin: Twitter slur from 'hackers'
Last year they had Gen. Keith Alexander, NSA chief. There are usually a handful of talks by "feds". I wonder if their talk schedule has gotten messed up because of this.
A local backup isn't much of a backup. A single fire, flood, theft, storm, earthquake, etc. shouldn't be able to destroy every copy of your data. You must have at least one offsite copy of anything valuable.

http://www.dpbestflow.org/backup/backup-overview
> If you drop, the game brands you a leaver.

I've never played these games so I may be missing something, but why is that a problem? Somebody else in this thread mentioned that lossing in Dota is worse than losing in other games, but didn't explain why either.

I'm getting the sense that the real cause of the issue is that for some reason people take Dota way too seriously. If you lose, what's the big deal? You still had fun right?

A coworker told me a few days ago that he use to play "league of legends" but quit when he realized he wasn't actually having fun since the experience become too stressful.
Any word on whether the purchase of the iOS app goes, in any meaningful percentage, to the alleged charity?
Does a "time-out" mean that they're discouraged from attending or that they won't be issued badges?
New cars in CA get registrations folded up and affixed to the front windshield [1]. You get your plates in the mail in a couple of weeks and it's up to you to put them on within 90 days of purchase.

[1] http://www.bimmerfest.com/forums/showpost.php?s=27de0586326d...
Shhhhhhhh.
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Yes, if you took the time to connect each mouse to a machine and see what devices it detects, it would be readily apparent that a mouse loaded with a Glitch was doing something funny. And, as far as that goes, a really observant user might notice something weird going on when it's first connected. But most users aren't terribly observant, or at least that's the assumption.
Who wants to help me build this for the Oculus Rift?
It is a nice idea, but until such time as the actual text of the bill is available to be read, I'm skeptical.

I can hope, however.
But there has never been any expectation of privacy when in public. Especially when it comes to something regulated like driving a car. Should there be some change in the law now forbidding collecting licence plate data because it is easier to do en-masse?
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Like IPv6? Its taken more than 10 years to approach 1% traffic share. Perhaps HTTP 2.0 will happen but I wouldn't bet money on it being everywhere anytime soon.
Its a world wide phenomenon actually.

Besides its still better to teach your kids to work hard than the 'work life balance' thing. From your kids perspective, the 'work life balance' thing is going to be synonymous with laziness.

And in nearly all cases the problem is not with working hard, its working hard in the right direction.
When I read the title for this article, I thought it might be referring to some unconventional racing game that I remembered as getting the worst score ever on some gaming site. That game was Big Rigs. Thanks for reminding me of this hilarious atrocity.

http://www.gamespot.com/big-rigs-over-the-road-racing/review...
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> "The reason why we don't use tail sitting craft is because they are too awkward for human pilots to land."

This isn't true. Taking off anything vertically requires their thrust-to-weight ratios be higher than 1.0 (otherwise try as it might, it's going to sit on the ground).

Modern, latest-generation fighter aircraft have a TWR somewhere between 0.75 and 1.15. If you pointed them upwards, they will barely be able to lift off the ground (if their TWR is above 1.0 at all), much less gain enough speed to generate lift with their wings.

Taking off horizontally allows you to get lift "for free" with the wings. Accelerating horizontally means you're not fighting gravity the whole time. Lifting off vertically, assuming the aircraft has enough TWR to make it realistic, is a terrible waste of fuel. Modern fighters only have a combat radius of ~300-350mi before they have to turn around and go home. The more fuel that is expended taking off or landing, the less actual flight (and fight) time they have.

Catapult launches also allows you to save fuel on the aircraft by "borrowing" the necessary energy from the launcher. Ditto arrested-hook landings that allow you to borrow stopping force from the aircraft carrier - otherwise you'd have to carry enough fuel to exert this force yourself.

It's certainly possible to design craft that can take off and land vertically - the physics are relatively simple. The problem is making them practical - the more fuel/weight an aircraft spends just taking off and landing, the less weight can be dedicated to useful tasks, like missiles, bombs, and flying far.
It basically means that spot the fed will be more eventful this year.
The feds have all the 0 day and privileged access now. What do they need Def Con for anyway? Well, I guess they'll miss out on getting drunk.
I don't think the intention is to create a moat around the conference. Things have been getting quite cozy between these two [1]; I'm sure recent revelations don't play well with this conference's attendee base.

[1] https://www.computerworld.com/s/article/9229756/NSA_chief_as...
Windows and even MacOS is a factor IMO. When you have a device with them, you have to play system administrator. You need answers to virus scanners, backups, where your photos are, where you get software from, how you find software you installed, the never ending and frequent updates to everything and the list goes on.

With iOS and Android, the average person doesn't have to care about any of that. It is right there or in the cloud. A web browser is sufficient to do a lot of "work": banking, documents, communication, social etc. For advanced uses there is an app. Your photos are right there when you take them with the device. The amount of babysitting and micromanaging is trivial compared to Windows/MacOS.

Note that to get iOS or Android, you need to buy a tablet or phone instead of a PC.

The problem with Windows 8 is that it is still Windows. It doesn't go anywhere near far enough in the lack of babysitting/micromanaging that characterise Android/iOS and if you get the version that allegedly does (RT) you end up with a tablet anyway. And it broke what people who wanted desktop Windows expected by being different enough from Windows 7 and predecessors appearing gratuitous.

Nobody has evolved successfully - both iOS and Android started from scratch. Microsoft and Ubuntu are trying to evolve from desktop, but without much traction so far. (Of course there could be other reasons.)
Desert Bus is better than Crazy Bus: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hss2QwtT6xY
Agreed. I was skeptical (it's their first whiskey, IIRC), but I was pleasantly surprised.
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Classic Tech Management Anti-Patterns
Yes, and when that box has a hardware problem you will serve a whole fuckton of nothing.
That's a very well written FAQ.

Makes me feel much better about using their DNS.
I don't expect a full formal letter, but something explaining briefly why you actually think you're good for this position or this company is the least one can do.
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I used to live in Chicago. The fact that almost all murders in Chicago happen to blacks and Hispanics, many of them in gangs, doesn't reduce people's incentive to support stronger police presence. Indeed, it makes it easier. You fear the gangs taking the red line up to the north side, but don't care so much about more aggressive policing because those cops aren't kicking down doors in your neighborhood.
Oops GitHub did it again, relaunches binary uploads after scuttling them
Microsoft's impossible dream: A lean mean, integrated machine
> Whatever you thought about Ron Paul, his politics would have prevented all of this. All of the wars. All the foreign aid. And we would live in paradise ;)

This made me laugh. Considering how much Republicans and Tea Partiers are ostracized for making cuts, just imagine how much people would come down on a fiscally conservative basically Libertarian candidate in 2016 (even if he runs as a Republican).