skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Really? Trusting the word of a guy who's son was one of AQ's top lieutenants?

Here's an alternative story... the 5 'civilians' he was with were his father's old AQ friends.

Comparing these two cases is a joke.
LINQ is a language feature. RX is a paradigm in a form of an open-source library: https://rx.codeplex.com/
Looks interesting. I like the video, I felt inspired just watching actually. Except that the poor girl forgot her laptop on the beach.

$15 for eBook is a hard sell but I'll probably pick it up eventually if only because I'm one of those chumps that sits on ideas instead of executing. Reading this book will be a good excuse to not do anything productive.
Exactly, pros do it all the time. Eventually it becomes cool. I never buy into the hype about it looking bad for a few reasons:

I wear glasses. Years ago people thought all glasses looked silly. And they were, with giant thick lenses. Now people buy non-RX glasses to look cool, even.

I saw an animated sci-fi show from around 10 years ago (Denno Coil, Japanese anime) where in order to see the AR/VR world, you wore glasses. Every single kid wore glasses. You had to in order to see the VR/AR. Once something is common, the look factor doesn't matter.

I think we're just seeing people being disappointed that Reality is still decades/centuries/possibly impossible behind Fiction, and Fiction is only pulling further away as Reality gets better computers to render Fiction with.
If they void all these transactions you should be fine right?
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If you can load libraries at runtime, you can load a secret malicious library, or replace a standard library with arbitrary code before triggering the loading.

So would you remove that ability to avoid its exploitation potential by malware?
I would say some of the biggest differences are our multi-framework architecture and our focus on being a viable full-fledged development platform.

Divshot supports Bootstrap, Foundation, and Ratchet (at present) and our new project structure works just like a folder on your hard drive. Because Divshot allows you to edit the entire HTML document you can actually build entire applications in it using a third party service like Firebase or Parse.

There are lots of smaller differences, but our focus on being a full development platform as opposed to a mockup/prototyping tool is probably one of the biggest.
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Oh they would care for sure. They would stop watching sports on ESPN. I could even see local teams seeing their ticket sales increasing.

That's the rally cry! Support your local sports, stop watching ESPN!

Would $30 a month ESPN cause an increase in sports broadcast piracy? I seriously doubt it. Do people around the world really care what happens in sports from the other side of the globe that they are not involved with in some way? Do baseball fans in New York really care how that football team in Texas is doing?
I'd vote for whoever employs the guy whose password is 'Elimgarak06!'
Bonjour is easy to implement. But why a special desktop app? Isn't there VLC for desktop already?

I haven't used the original VLC for iOS. Do you run an HTTP server on the device for file uploading? You could go one step further and add WebDAV on top of HTTP. That would allow mounting the app as an external disk. It can also be integrated with desktop VLC for automatic discovery and file sharing.

Can't wait to start contributing!
First - go back to the ancient times when Skype was conceived. Then people used these weird wired devices to talk called telephones.

Skype was created to just piss off national telecoms and wired carriers - because sending the data for a minute of voice over the network was costing way less than what they were charging.

The brilliant architecture of skype for the times (and even now) was not created for the security of the users but for Skype to be impossible to be blocked and detected by telecoms with all kinds of possible DPI capabilities.

The fact that this gave the users somewhat secure way to communicate was just a nice side effect.

Nowadays the times have changed - the telecoms are overcharging on mobile data like mad and throwing voice minutes like they are going out of fashion, up to a point that actually having the telephone used as a modem over voice call could be profitable. So nobody is bothered to block voice apps. So there is less need for security.
Not being a c++ dev, I didn't realize there were multiple versions of the standard library - are they just different implementations of the same api? Are there other languages with multiple implementations of the standard lib?
To be fair to Boeing, this Honeywell ELT has nothing to do with them and is on thousands of planes. It seems it may just have been an unlucky coincidence that the first fire was on a 787.
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This is what the FOIA Machine guys said specifically about that in their application for a Knight News Challenge Grant (scroll down to the competition section): https://www.newschallenge.org/open/open-government/submissio...
The PRISM letter Google, Yahoo, Apple, Facebook, Microsoft are sending Congress
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"Demonstrate before the palace of the rich; demand work. If denied, demand bread. If denied both, steal the bread."
Divshot works great as a prototyping tool for Rails projects (and if you're using something like Angular for templating, you can do much much more with it).

We built http://revision.io/ for the Rails Rumble last year (2nd place, woo!) and used Divshot to prototype all of the interfaces. It's a huge time-saver, but I'm a bit biased :)
I tried to take them seriously until they mentioned Weev as one of their idols.
Searched for "password" - 36 results. The majority some iteration of 'password1', 'Password1', 'password2', etc.

Really wish government employees would be forced to use more secure passwords, or at the least heavily trained on the importance of them.
Link: http://www.newser.com/story/171132/jim-cramer-hints-snapchat...
Ah, that's good then. Hopefully for Boeing the PR stays under control.
Of domestic politically driven assassinations???

Must have been on the moon!
It's awesome they exist. Otherwise it would've been HTML5 vs native. First won't be ready for a long time, second means different high-level languages for each platform.
http://futureboy.us/frinkdocs/index.html

Try this.
Exactly, they've gone electronic.

People carry less cash these days anyway, we're all electronic/plastic.
This is overly idealistic. Some part of working in a business situation (no matter the industry) is dealing with other people. You might be able to get pretty far, but you won't be able to avoid politics forever.

I think the advice in here is solid and is something that's been forgotten by too many. While the "jocks" in high school were getting this right, the "nerds" never had to learn. This is great advice for those of us where it doesn't come naturally.
You should obviously be as nice as possible to people and treat them with respect, but that shouldn't be a prerequisite for them performing their jobs.
Does everyone get funding? Including liberal arts?
Very neat. Quick patch to make (require 'floobits) work:

diff --git a/floobits.el b/floobits.el
index 5f05d33..029e6bd 100644
--- a/floobits.el
+++ b/floobits.el
@@ -451,3 +451,5 @@ See floobits-share-dir to create one or visit floobits.com."
(cons 'added added-text)
(cons 'deleted deleted))))
(floobits-send-to-agent req 'buffer_list_change)))))
+
+(provide 'floobits)
Even the Unabomber got a trial.
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If you are talking about the gradient I think you are, any effect it has it can minimized to nearly nonexistent by increasing the wavelength.
"As you get older the appeal of a bike for transportation to all but the most devoted geriatric athlete diminishes."

This just isn't true. The reason that Americans give up cycling as they get older is because it's inconvenient. Plenty of cities in other countries make cycling convenient, so a lot more people do it. Sure, there's a substantial portion of the population (15-20%?) who aren't physically capable of cycling, but that doesn't mean that getting closer to 40% of people commuting on bikes like Amsterdam does is impossible.

https://secure.flickr.com/photos/16nine/sets/721576183922194...
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Duly noted. I'll remember to include it in future discussions. The local public library has more free content available (don't forget inter-library loans) than you can ever get thru - no need to pay even for Internet access.
I think that's tough on everyone involved. The soon to be gone employee won't want to stay. Especially after hearing - "hey you're a poor performer so leave in 2 weeks."

Employers should give formal warnings. Employees need hard metrics on where they are flailing.
Assuming this is real. Most of these look like default passwords chosen by a clueless office administrator. They're all so similar.
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Severance serves an important purpose for senior-level employees and executives: it makes it more painful to fire them. This frees a good employee to take more risks, hopefully for the employer's long-term best interest, because they have greater job security.
Even outside . . . when I was a boy, my brothers and I were sent off to scout camp for a week and a half during the summer. Camp Lanochee in rural mid-Florida, known to its occupants as Camp Mosquito. I will never forget the feeling of sweat rolling off me whenever I turned in bed. It was this hot even though we slept naked or in underclothes only on a cot in an open-sided adirondack -- under a bug net, of course. It has to have been one of the most uncomfortable experiences of my life.
>Not if it later turns out this opinion missed crucial information about the mental state and fragile support framework of Aaron

it is not about "later" and specific Aaron's mental state. It is about very specific pattern of "holier than thou" types making up and leading the approving crowd throwing rotten tomatoes and kicking a witch being drawn toward the prepared stake, an "enemy of the people" being shot or sent to Gulag, a school teacher being sent to reeducation camp, a blacklisted for "unamerican activities" actor being denied a job, and yes, a young prodigy whose life being crushed and flushed down the drain for a Prometheus like action.

>Claiming Edward spearheaded a negative community response to a desperate cry for help of a dying man is ludicrous. And I think you should apologize for insinuating that

ok, i've just checked my English through Webster

spearhead:

2: a leading element, force, or influence in an undertaking or development

you don't think his opinion was a leading element and influence in that community response ? Ok. That just my opinion against yours. Lets look what other people are saying:

http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/14/aaron-swartz-asking-for-hel...

Surprise! they cite the same comment.

>as I am sure expressing these thoughts puts significant torment on Edward.

have you read the top voted comment on this page we right now at? Sounds like that of a tormented man?
I don't know whats so bad in particular about it, aside from the bureaucracy behind it. To understand that, you'd need to be a bureaucrat, so just hit yourself in the head with a rock about 100x and you'll get there.
Yep, via OpenCV. If I still had access to Glass I'd love to try out your library. Do you have any first-person videos of your application? If you have an iPhone 5 you can hold it up to the prism in good lighting and record first-person (it's a real pain though).
I think the point is that if the variable isn't being changed, the emails go out.

Maybe a packed Tor client + desktop application that does every action it needs to do for the user, if the master hasn't changed the server variable or if it's not accessible for [insert random number] days, weeks or years.
Yes and yes! So, the C++ standard library differences don't usually bite you unless you're e.g. Building executables on windows with mingw and trying to link against libraries built with visual studio that use STL features at the API, but there are indeed several implementations out there. libstdc++, libc++, and msvcrt are among the more common.

As for other languages with several standard libraries: a while ago that was a frequent criticism of D -- there were two competing standard libraries, which caused some division in the community.
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The author might as well be a sociopath. The only reason he pays severance is because if he doesn't, then society will realize he is a dick. Most people have empathy for the people they fire, and that is reason enough to provide severance.
You seem quite paranoid.

Open source was thought to sweep away for hidden code, I really doubt GCC or other compilers has that special code that is reproduced each time you recompile a compiler with it.

If there was such self-reproducing code in a compiled GCC, it would be quite easy to find. There are many eyes looking at a program like GCC.

And even with such a conspiracy theory, which is still possible, open source has better margin than proprietary. It's not perfect, but it's much more transparent if you get what I mean.
I believe this is what you are referring to:
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/3533.html

"What does everyone think about the design?" asked Doerr, switching subjects.

"What do you think?" said Jobs to Tim. It was a challenge, not a question.

"I think it's coming along," said Tim, "though we expect—" "I think it sucks!" said Jobs.

His vehemence made Tim pause. "Why?" he asked, a bit stiffly.

"It just does."

"In what sense?" said Tim, getting his feet back under him. "Give me a clue."

"Its shape is not innovative, it's not elegant, it doesn't feel anthropomorphic," said Jobs, ticking off three of his design mantras.

"You have this incredibly innovative machine but it looks very traditional." The last word delivered like a stab.

...

"Screw the lead times. You don't have a great product yet! I know burn rates are important, but you'll only get one shot at this, and if you blow it, it's over."
You could check Wikipedia instead. If it says he's dead on Wikipedia for longer than a few hours/days, then he's probably dead.
A lot of early DVDs were 4:3 letterboxed. On a 4:3 SDTV, they look the same as anamorphic widescreen. Sometimes better, on some of the old DVD players that did a bad job of downsizing.
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=How+Tesla
Java, Lisp, etc. have multiple implementations too. Different implementations often have different characteristics -- performance, compliance with the standard, etc.
Pretty sure this could be part of the answer to the pros/cons debate of working remotely... productivity vs collaboration.
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Great story. One thing: on your RealCrowd homepage, even though I'm on the internet all day, I didn't connect with the need to scroll. The only thing that won the war with the back button (because it was an open tab, and I had forgotten why I opened it)... was because I remembered that the page was a link from a post I read. You might want to shrink that header or something.

Best of luck!
Yes, just like there are several C++ compilers, each of them can potentially use its own implementation of the standard library.

This isn't all that rare in other languages. Python has a standard implementation, but there are others, e.g. http://pypy.org/
I don't have any first-person videos yet, but I should give it a go. (I don't have an iPhone 5, but I can try with my HTC One X.) I'll link to it from the project's github page.
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The OCR is really useless. I tested it with some reddit "advice animal" memes (because there is a need for transcriptions). You would think that text is pretty simple and easy, but the output I got was like:

/\n\nnmrs wn\ufb02qyi mm mm\nTlIIEI\ufb02|\ufb02llllM\u2018l co
That's a great link.. should help see how far this could be practically taken.

When the wave is very strong the heat generated by compression isn't dissipated adiabatically the wave starts losing energy to waste heat; if you increase the wavelength you again move back to the adiabatic regime. How far can you take it? I don't know, I'd like to see some numbers and that's probably what I'd work on next if I keep looking into this.. probably won't until after Elon's announcement.

For extreme cases of high-amplitude waves where the particle velocity itself is getting close to the speed of sound, I definitely don't know what all happens, but somewhere in the write-up or comments here I at least had going that far as a bound on how far you could push things before you didn't really even have sound waves anymore.
Thanks for the patch- I hadn't really considered someone requiring Floobits so its not really built as a library.
Sort of amazes me that you can write an entire article about the dying art of pickpocketing and not interview any of the old picks. Would have made the article a lot more interesting than just some quotes from criminologists.
You say this as if Java doesn't have its fair share of oddities. It seems you're saying that the highly granular typing found in C doesn't have an equally-annoying analogue in Java; it does[1].

[1] http://www.javalobby.org/java/forums/m92125315.html
It's not an either or thing. It does both.
I fully agree with the 1st comment on the post itself:

vladimir • July 18, 2013 8:57 AM
If he has a switch like this. That is not only protect him from being killed by US authorities but motivate the same authorities to protect him from all other threats.

This should provide enough incentive for the same spy agencies to make sure nothing happens to him.
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I would say most languages do. C is another one: the original AT&T C library has found its way via changes into some of the BSDs, but Linux systems typically use the GNU C library ("glibc"), which for copyright reasons had to be done as an independent implementation (the Unix source at the time was proprietary). Microsoft and IBM also have their own C library implementations.
But it pretty much guarantees that all the data doesn't flow through one super-node. P2P design makes a lot of sense. Centralized didn't, until the recent events.
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Different implementations of the same API yes. They are more or less tied to the compiler you use.
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works in IT, would do more for someone who gives me donuts and makes me look good in front of my boss. The rest of you can queue and go through normal channels.

Sorry, I'm a person, not a robot (who likes donuts and coffee if you can spare it). I do my job and do it damn well, but I'll make time for you if you treat me nicer. I might even work evenings and weekends, but that might require steak and beer.
I'm curious if anyone's had experience negotiating a severance package up front? The kind we all bitch about executives having. I've never relocated for a job, or made a particularly sacrifice to start a job, but I always thought that if I did I'd want some agreement, as I'd be investing a great deal in that job change, and I've seen a few people get really hosed. Usually when they jump into a position that is more political than they realized.
No, these are not rechargeable as far as I am aware. RESCU 406 SE2 lists a battery life of 12 years. I don't know which the 787 is equipped with.

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...or you could've started a new community here:

http://area51.stackexchange.com.

- wouldn't waste our time looking at yet another sign-up dummy page.
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i think your main problem is the need to ask hn for validation.

do what you want. it's your life.
> Don't use it to generate a root certificate, but it'll work for general purposes.

"General purposes" is exceedingly hard to quantify.
Yep, as an early user of skype (back when it was still a european company) I clearly remember when it was labeled as "wiretap proof"
The poor man's Vital Signs API.
You mean like the drone attacks in Yemen?

Also, this is the reason some believe the Anon attacks to be false-flag psyops in order to further the cyber-drive hardon the USG has.

If NSA+Israel wrote Stux and Duqu, its not like they are some slouchers that are going to be humiliated by Anon... or are they?
Depends on what that .01% is, and what that 20% is, yes.
So what do we have? A bunch of weak passwords. Not bad they are revealed, actually, should educate some a bit. Still, revealing the passwords without the email addresses would've been a bit more responsible.

On the other hand, do they really store house.gov passwords unencrypted? I'm not even talking about salted vs unsalted hash here, just plaintext? Seriously?
Hard, but not impossible. I'm willing to wait for a few hours for <sporting event that I watch> from <torrent site I use>.
Sure, I'm relying on SOMEONE to record and package the broadcast, but it could be largely automated.

There's also the recent phenomenon of people watching blacked-out content via Slingbox. Several years ago MLB considered bringing suit against the company (my google-fu is failing me, it appears that it never happened).
Is severance essentially the expected value of firing an employee? The way I've seen it used is what you pay an employee in exchange for them not suing you for wrongful dismissal. Once it hits a certain threshold an employee will take the money and shut up. If it's not enough or they believe they can get more they will retain a lawyer and sue.
Democracy is emphatically not a "one-size-fits-all" system. It a system designed to maximize the prosperity of a majority of the people, often to the detriment of this or the other minority group. I like freedom and individual liberty just fine, but I think the "default rule" should prioritize executing the will of the majority through the popularly-elected government. I think every instance in which a court holds unconstitutional some validly passed law of Congress or some program of the President that enjoys popular support is an instance of the courts telling the majority what it can and cannot do, and I think such events should be the exception, not the rule. The courts should seek to give effect to the will of the democratically-elected branches if it is possible.

There is nothing inconsistent with that view and the recognition that a minority of people who hold a majority of the wealth have incentives that do not necessarily align with the interests of the majority. Indeed, it is entirely consistent with that view, based on the basic belief that the purpose of government is to maximize the prosperity of the majority, with the protection of the rights of individuals being an important but secondary concern.