skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Either because he thinks that the media cycle will make his whistle-blowing irrelevant, because he's worthless after he discloses everything, or because then he'll no longer be a celebrity. Take your pick depending on your opinion.
Condensed 'Jobs' teaser reportedly becomes first trailer aired on Instagram
Riak Passes the Stress Test
> green addresses (downside: requires third party trust)

I think that fidelity bonds are in fact a decentralized solution for green addresses.

With traditional green addresses, you would have to use 3rd party services to prove you're honest. Those services would have to charge fees in order to operate.

With fidelity bonds, you would prove you're going to be honest by making it unprofitable to act otherwise. This doesn't require a trusted party, should be much cheaper for users in the long run, and imho a much more elegant solution.
It seems a bit extreme on my Nexus 4... http://i.imgur.com/hagaiLR.png
Totally, and now that this is out the book will skyrocket to the top of every best-seller list on the planet. Well played.
It does, and that is the default way that windows scales applications unless they specifically add to their application manifest that they support High DPI.

Using High DPI myself I have never experienced what everyone else seems to be talking about with applications breaking. (Unless you are talking about Windows XP)
MacTCP was acceptable, but certainly didnt stack up against the UNIX variants.
The grass is always greener, especially when you remember someone lifting their leg and peeing on your own grass last month.

I would bet that ~100% of the women with small children who stay at home sometimes get inappropriate suggestions that they are choosing to waste their potential.

I would bet that ~100% of the women with small children who work full time sometimes get inappropriate suggestions that they are choosing to be an inferior mother.

Both sting. And there is no polite response.

FWIW, the biological mother as the default primary care giver for very small children seems to be a cultural universal. (That is not to suggest that the default should be assumed to be automatically superior.)
Not sure why you would say this. My first job was running phone lines through the lowered ceiling to hook up localtalk for the Macs. It worked wonderfully. Even back then Apple was very auto-configure-y which made finding printers and file servers very easy. Just go into Chooser and there they all were.
IP over localtalk was not difficult either. After a couple years it moved to ethernet (coax, yay!) and that worked fine too. Networking Macs has always been extremely easy.
That is both the most incredible thing I've ever seen, yet also by far the saddest thing I've ever seen. Props to the author for taking dedication to a whole new level.

Link to a description of what this actually is: https://github.com/mame/quine-relay
#DojoDevCamp: New Provo, UT Python school
You can configure databases to require the correct user to authenticate before touching it..
It's the same cost/benefit calculation I point out below.

For services like spotify (and I'm specifically referring to the part of the service where you can choose to play a specific song), there is cost to an artist, in lost sales. Meaning, people who would normally buy a cd/track, and who do not since they listen to it on spotify. I think people can agree this cost is not zero - some sales definitely are lost - but they'll argue the magnitude of the cost.

There is also a benefit in terms of discovery. This is the streaming revenue, plus the sales that come from discovery. I think people can agree the benefit is above zero - discovery does happen - but they'll again argue magnitude.

The question is whether the discovery benefit outweighs the cost. There are widely varying opinions on this, and it can really only be answered with data rather than by someone's strong opinion.

It's also tricky question to test because I think the counterfactuals may be impossible. How do you simultaneously test the success of a song on Spotify, and the exact same song not on Spotify? Maybe an artist with two equally popular cds could put one on Spotify and not the other and see what happens for a rough approximation, but I'm not sure. I'd love to hear more thoughts on ways this calculation can be approximately measured.
I wonder who would be deserving, then?
The first study I linked accounted for maternal IQ:

> In an ordinal regression model, markers of neurological development (cognitive test scores) and stress (emotional stress scores) accounted for approximately 36% of the relationship between breast feeding and social mobility.

The second looked at white matter and sub-cortical gray matter volume which you can either find significant or not significant.

Your own article says:

> Of course, breast-feeding is a healthy thing to do. It enhances the baby’s immune system, and builds a bond with mom

which I consider positive things. But it also makes bizarre claims, like:

> Working mothers, already strapped by the expenses of new parenthood, cannot necessarily afford to shell out hundreds of dollars for a breast pump and accessories.

...and how much does formula cost?

Ultimately, you've got to just do what you think is best for your kid, and it sounds like you did. As your article says, there is no One True Way. But if having a career makes you compromise on what you think is best for your kid, that's a problem (with the construct of 'careers'), that's my point.
I don't think the data says what he think it says.

Sure, it is not 1999 or even 2002. I don't think anyone thinks it is.

Focus on the last 4 years. It looks pretty flat with a blip in 2010.

3/31/2009: 14.5
3/31/2010: 18.8
3/31/2011: 15.4
3/30/2012: 15.5

Of course, Ben could be (and probably is) right but the P/E ratio does not look like evidence to me.
The boycott request was a call to community action. You're reframing it as a single individual's struggle for survival, which isn't the same thing.
I don't see any sign of angular - what makes you think that they did?
As a sysadmin he probably had root access to a ton of systems. Own the infrastructure, own the organization.
wow, finally! this comes very welcome. although i suppose i must now bid farewell to another one of my repositories :) http://github.com/catshirt/github-mobile
What about Gates, Jobs, and Buffet?
Many companies use patents as a matter of course, whether it's critical to their business or not.
Nope, but

as rape is to sex,

so

nonconsensual leering is to hot eye sex.
Yes, the market is so huge someone would have tried this approach. You would at least expect a few case studies showing increased cost efficiency in mostly women work forces. That none exist, is pretty damning.
The Art of a Three Letter Domain Name
Actually we do use localStorage for one thing, they support notifications :) IndexedDB (nor webSQL) have change notifications so we also do writes to a localStorage flag to make sure change notifications go through tabs.
The State of Rendering (Part 1)
Speaking of the code view, any plans on adding code commenting capability on mobile? This has been a bit difficult to use on a phone because the click target is so small on the desktop version.

I can't resist doing code reviews even when I'm away from keyboard :)
Gowalla Founder Josh Williams Is Leaving Facebook
For those interested in adding to their Finnish vocabulary:

http://translate.google.com/#auto|en|perkeleen%20vittup%C3%A...
In case someone is able to run this beast, I'd appreciate an upload of the intermediate source files.
If you're a serious speculator then you can figure out how to buy BTC with an ACH or wire transfer. Also, I suspect a lot of miners are looking for ways to spend their BTC.
I'm sorry, how is that sad?
Kind of interesting scheme that doesn't really work in 2013.

Wouldn't this be vulnerable to replay attacks, or am I missing something?
Indeed. In the early 90s, it wasn't necessarily obvious that everybody needed a TCP/IP stack. "The Internet" was still essentially academic, and something the average person didn't really know anything about. Small PC LANs typically ran on some combination of IPX/SPX and NetBIOS.

3.11 laid the foundations for modular Windows networking, but included TCP/IP support was two years away in Windows 95, and even then it still wasn't installed by default(!). Microsoft took a while to catch on.
> Well, often enough a prof may have several projects going. universities usually assign you classes to lecture based on how much research you have going on. It would be impossible to organize research activities on an ongoing constant basis for a department of researchers. Sometimes you have too much work sometimes not enough.

So it's filler work.

> Oh, get over it. This is more urban legend than reality. Learn to work with people who aren't from your home town.
> May be annoying for you if it isn't your field and you just need some science courses;

I am talking from personal experience, not urban legend. It was the core operating systems / concurrency course. The person had marginal English language skills, and I've work many recent immigrants from his country who have far better accents and english language skills now. It was a common complaint on ratemyprofessor. It wasn't a minor difference such as a 1960s Boston or British accent.

> but if you want to work with people who are doing interesting leading research in some field, there's a good chance you'll have to work with people who aren't native English speakers.

I work with a probably %75 ESL workforce today, many of them recent ESL, and I went to an international high school. I work with many of them very well.

It's still no excuse, especially in any public speaking engagement to not be able to communicate decently. You NEED your audience to be able to understand %95 of what your saying or you might as well just communicate in writing with them. You should be doing more back office work until its corrected.
Malte Ubl & John Hjelmstad: A novel, efficient approach to JavaScript loading
You can still tier access, even to users with root access by encrypting files at rest.

I find it highly concerning that a not-particularly-high-level employee was able to gain access to so much data. The amount of access and permission controls at Booz seem amateur from a distance.
Section 10 of the GPL says:

> You may not impose any further restrictions on the exercise of the rights granted or affirmed under this License. For example, you may not impose a license fee, royalty, or other charge for exercise of rights granted under this License, and you may not initiate litigation (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that any patent claim is infringed by making, using, selling, offering for sale, or importing the Program or any portion of it.

The BSD does not say anything like that, so you are allowed to add restrictions. This is why you can place the GPL alongside the BSD, because you are adding restrictions. The BSD has nothing that isn't already present in the GPL (it is "GPL-compatible"), whereas the GPL has lots of additional restrictions, but since the BSD does not prohibit this, it is fine.
He's right, and you can look at Eastern European countries to see what would've happened otherwise.

However, this isn't the Army we're talking about (obviously, they're leaving), but the NSA, whose mission is to gather intelligence to protect the US, so it's kinda funny that it uses bases smack in the middle of foreign countries...
Fun fact: years ago I started building an ipad app for Github, but it was rejected multiple times by Apple because users could use it to create a new account but then Apple wouldn't get any commission.

https://github.com/oscardelben/GithubBrowser
Why you should get an international driver's license
Well, you can go to my bookstore cointagion.com and buy lots of ebooks :-)

But yes, for the most part bitcoin is still a solution looking for a problem. The three best candidates for large-scale future use are, in my opinion (1) sending money overseas for employees/family (2) store of value in countries with high inflation (3) some kind of business model, as yet undiscovered, involving "reverse micropayments" (by which I mean micropayments involving few buyers, many sellers)
This would be more newsworthy if the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs hadn't leaked it himself. But he did, so this isn't.
I just see that more and more people adopt bitcoin, that it's anonymous, distributed and secure, and it's been described as the next best thing since banknotes - I just can't see the usefulness...
You're not the first to have this idea, nor will you be the last. Think about why it has not succeeded already.
I really disagree. Writing actual papers and having them peer reviewed is a useful model for actually doing science, and you can learn a ton from reading good academic papers.

I don't know why you bring up documentation, the current tools used to write academic papers seem fine.

As the OP states, the problem is the incentive system, not the particular set of tools and practices.

(However, I don't think his suggestions are fundamental enough to change things, and I am skeptical about his claimed expertise on the stock market and copyright.)
Yeah, you can, but it doesn't look like the systems were built that way. Honestly, the state of cybersecurity is pretty bad throughout both the public and private sectors. Somehow I doubt the NSA is immune to that trend.
> Also, any api/library that lets you create an object that is
> unusable because specific methods to set up values haven't
> been called yet is very error prone.

That's what the Builder pattern[1] is for, avoiding the instantiation of incomplete objects.

I've thought about the appropriateness of that pattern to Python, and so far what I've come up with is merely to use optional named parameters for private/simple classes and Builder classes for public/brittle/robust classes/APIs.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Builder_pattern
(I think everyone downvoting you is an idiot)

I understand what you're saying, but the problem is, I don't want to have to use the preferred editor of the person that happens to be maintaining some random projects I'm editing. I like my VIM and my grep, and my colleague likes her Eclipse and her InstaSearch.

Now, that doesn't mean we should eschew all metadata, but I rather see some structured data formats that can be interpreted by the editor and fitted to the user, instead of the other way around.

In fact, I'd rather see the web itself move more in that direction. HTML/CSS may be wonderful in terms of the freedom they give to the developer, but it's no free lunch: we lost a lot of potential interoperability by going with free-form, unstructured formats instead of more content and less design driven ones.
GlusterFS 3.4 is Here
So when people say "young women in urban areas" we're talking about maybe 5-10% of women.

In the midst of all that fact-checking and debunking, you throw out this wholly unsupported and claim with an invented number?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clipper_chip
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Signature_Algorithm

(Thanks mods for updating the title)
I'll just leave these here:

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fianc%C3%A9

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/fianc%C3%A9e
Arguably if Windows only supported double-or-nothing, the PC vendors would just start shipping appropriate screens.
If Alice's messages could all be intercepted and manipulated prior to Bob's receiving them, then yes, they could be changed without either party knowing.

Combined with asymmetric encryption of the messages, you should be able to prevent that from happening.
But wouldn't that require constant access to the server, whereas the key they could steal once with short access to server and use until it expires without the victim noticing?
Yeah, I want to see the golang code.
Is It Time to Restore Civility to Linux Development?
I think Jobs is definitely a creative type, he had a clear and distinct vision that went beyond what most CEO's would ever dream of let alone approve to drive resources into.

Being a creative type does not necessarily mean being an engineer.
> What if we started embedding our source code and editors in our documents instead of the other way around?

We all agreed that was a bad idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opendoc
http://getcloak.com
The pros of GPL software address the cons of closed source software, and the pros of closed source software address the cons of GPL software. So by choosing the BSD I'm actually helping spread both of these things, because they can both incorporate my code. It's a neutral position philosophically.
I like readable code, he didn't mention readability. The only thing I really care about in code is that it is readable and doesn't stretch all in one line and not broken up. Small chunks are better than a ninja one liner.

Constructor arguments/params are fine as long as the code is readable and line breaks to keep it within a decent column size. I also think that constructor arguments can sometimes get into overload messes just as method calls can. A good api breaks up any overly parameterized constructor or methods.

I just want code to be readable, fit within a decent column area and make sense. Whether it is in constructor params or method params there shouldn't be too much done in one line for complexity sake.

If programmers don't get constructor params then they probably don't get method params either. I think people just want stepped-readable code in most cases. Named and optional params help to clear up long initialization or method calls but in the end it is about balance and readability.

Smaller, iterative code bits are easier to put a breakpoint on as well say for instance one param was null and it broke on constructor, it might take some more inspection to find unless it was a specific set.
People tend to imagine the wildest things with things as secretive as the NSA.

But remember this is just another $20B agency. Odds are their computer systems are as terrible as any other agency.

A random analyst was able to download millions of state embassy cables and they would still be looking for him today if he didn't trip up in private chats. Testimony in the Manning case indicates that mIRC is mission critical software. The blunt face of reality quickly deflates all the sci-fi.
It's a higher priority in the same vein as exploration was a priority before Europe discovered and exploited all of its natural resources. Some of that stuff wasn't where they were.

E.G. Coffee wasn't a European thing in the old world before trade throughout the Middle-East, the Americas and Asia.

Likewise we have no idea what new discoveries we can observe from afar (I mean relative to our own dinky little mud-ball floating in space) than in our back yard of the solar system. So you shotgun the science in hopes of hitting something everywhere.
How to handle competitive landmines (during a sales deal)
I agree -- I don't think that any kind of tunnel or tube approach can be done more cheaply than HSR. And I venture to predict that if it is a tunnel or tube concept, it won't succeed in linking LA and SF.

That said, if we take Musk at something close to face value, it has a major advantage that the HSR doesn't: it would be faster than the air route. That would give it at least a fighting chance to draw extremely high ridership and make up for high costs with high revenue.

And if the idea is basically sound, but the implementation is impractical on the SF-LA corridor, then it could be put into use in some other intercity connection with more favorable terrain and lower land costs.
One example app that misbehaves for me on a high-DPI monitor is Camtasia Recorder 7 Specifically, it records an area of the screen that is offset up and to the left of the area indicated by the displayed boundary rectangle. Ableton Live 9 for example has trouble tracking the mouse correctly after clicking and dragging on some controls.
Over 40. Technically qualified. Not in management. Now what?
This little guy has a width less than the length of Manhattan, so I was surprised to hear it being called a moon.

But Wikipedia says there isn't really a lower limit to the size of a moon -- if it orbits a planet, it's a moon. Unless we put it there, in which case it's a satellite. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Natural_satellite#The_definitio...
Indeed. Their factory alone is a marvel, not to mention the Model S itself. Check it out on Megafactories, some great details on how they attain very high levels of quality for every vehicle that rolls out the door:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0GtKfOPZRg
> (desired is a different animal)

Desired is what we are talking about. It seems you would have women choose between their career and their child. Your attitude towards working mothers is an exemplification of the problem.

Mothers can do all of the things you have said... all of those things except continue their careers as other adults without society judging them for it.

Calls of "Or choose to do only mothering?" are the problem, not the solution.
Without any manipulation why wouldn't this be vulnerable to a replay attack?
That's precisely what I did with Bioshock. I bought it for PC the day it came out, installed it but never got around to playing it, then a year or so later I found the discs and tried to reinstall and it wouldn't work (I can't remember if the issue was an online registration check or an optical drive DRM support issue). So I pirated it and it worked like a charm.
If you're trying to write code, what to HTTP bring to the game? I think in this case, HTTP would be equivalent to a really, really, really long cord for your keyboard to wherever your code is.

Also, if you're using characters or glyphs to write code. It's always ASCII (or your character set of choice). It doesn't matter if it's in the browser or in a terminal. HTML presenting the code that your writing is just cruft.
If BackTrack were outlawed as a munition, it would spread more, briefly. http://www.backtrack-linux.org/ Download it now, whether or not you need it, because it adds noise.
This looks very nice indeed. The main thing that will interfere with usability for me as a non-C guru is the lack of thread support. But I am really grateful for the effort since my "spiritual home" among programming languages is definitely the dynamic languages, yet I appreciate the need and beauty of C in many instances when performance is necessary. libcello's apparent optional static typing (the "var") is really nice -- it's one of the wonderful things about using Cython alongside Python.
I ran 'opkg upgrade' once and it deleted itself.

I've run into lots of other annoyances with it (e.g. its database is rather slow), but that's the one that sticks in my memory.
I agree. The Mac was great at networking in 1993. Sure, MacTCP and MacPPP may have had strange configuration UI but localtalk and ethertalk Just Worked, and getting MacTCP and MacPPP working wasn't too hard.
Did the publisher know? Seems unclear from this article.
Can we ask him about JFK ;-) ?
> The BSD does not say anything like that, so you are allowed to add restrictions.

That is not how copyright or the BSD license works. You don't get to change the terms, since BSD doesn't give you permission to change the terms. Only the copyright holder can change the terms.
The problem I have is that media is going to basically make anything Snowden says as the truth, even if he doesn't have any proofs of this.

He could cause a lot of serious problems if he shares his thoughts and opinions as facts.

He should've stopped after the initial NSA leaks but now, he should just be quiet because the longer he does this, the more irrelevant and pointless the whole thing become. The moment he's proven as a liar because most of his statements can't be proven, the entire thing he was trying to do becomes moot.
Yes one could do the same and create a new kerberos library that is slightly incompatible with the other library as Microsoft did. That, IMHO, was trying to usurp the kerberos project in the sense that it wanted to be the new standard. I don't see how that's off.