skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still, and I don't mean to bash your work, I think this is a disservice to the internet because it perpetuates cloud tools and keeps the state-of-the-art even for something as personal as journaling in the cloud. That's a very, very sorry situation. Paraphrasing the old adage, if you haven't something to contribute that's in the best interests of people, better not to contribute at all. I keep my private stuff local as well, and you yourself admit to doing the same. Why not focus on making it easier for people to do the same, instead of riding the popularity contest of the quick-start cloud?
I do not believe that using sudo exactly counts as "non-root".
Aw man! It's so true, but we really hate making videos and A/B tests say that that video's much better than a nice professional image (we were too embarrassed to actually use that video for a long time, till we actually tested it).
The Moto X proves Google still needs the Nexus program
I am being harsh because money is a false signal that doesn't serve both sides of the debate. I am against the H1B as it stands now because it is exploitative, indentured labor. How does it matter if I get paid 10% more or 10% less when I have to work under fear, constant persistent fear?

Disclosure: I spent five months in an H1B. At one point, I was three days before my green card interview. My company kept dithering on whether I would be laid off or not. A layoff would have met all the work done for my green card would have gotten fucked because I would become out of status immediately. Now I didn't get laid off and got the green card. Yet, that system continues to exist because companies don't want to change that; immigrants are too scared to protest. An immigrant from India/China goes through 5+ years of this. That is the key advantage from an employer's perspective. Not a few thousand dollars. But the ability to get these people working all the time under threat of deportation. Also, it doesn't matter how good you are. Getting a good new job takes time.
I'm a fan of anything by Zoe Keating.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TTX0ryyoac

"Into the Trees" is my default coding music.
Author needs to get his facts right:

"SMS shortcodes that bill victims via their wireless carrier. In the U.S., we often see these attached..."

versus

"Readers in the U.S. can rest easy, since most of these scams use specific short codes that won't work outside Russia"

So, which one is it?
What correlation? Seriously, show me numbers.
Yeah, but where are they distributed - some Russian app stores or international ones? If local, then people are not aware Russia and Ukraine are cracker/malware superpowers? :)
What was the thinking behind the name? The only association I can make here is a cardboard sign "Will Work for Food".
Maybe I misunderstood, but didn't the harddrive have direct memory access (DMA)?
I say no. Focus on your product and once you take off and makes loads of money, you can get a better domain name if you want.
That is closely tied to "who gets to audit the source".

E.g. the FOSS community wasn't a fan of only-trusted-secure-boot when it was microsoft holding the keys and the source and releasing neither.
I'd be okay with disabling my ability to smell entirely. Smell seems to be a sense that is almost entirely used only for unpleasant or irrelevant things. Sure, food wouldn't taste as good, but it wouldn't hurt me to eat less anyway...

The less anything smells, the better.
Hey guys, i wrote this piece. Would love feedback, especially critical :-)
Seems a weird solution, given they aren't the gorilla in the ebook market - but what comes to mind when reading this, are the battles Microsoft had with regulation. I wonder if this is the beginning of the same era for Apple.
Not naming names, but...

> AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Comcast, and Sprint declined to comment.
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It's not a real problem, it's a manufactured problem. People didn't get used to smelling bad, they never considered their smell to be bad.
TechCrunch Hackathon Tickets Notifier
Just in time for the BREACH exploit.
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/08/gone-in-30-seconds-n...

Time to get the TLS hangups sorted and upgrade to 1.2 ?!
In case you missed securing a hackathon ticket the first time, this app notifies you as soon as the tickets are available.
Anecdotally, absolutely. I don't find body odor to smell bad, nor do many people I know, and being a bit of a hippie, know a lot of people that don't wear deodorant. Given that there's no advantage to avoiding healthy sweating bodies the way there is to avoiding rotting meat, I think that evolutionary pressures are quite different. Objectively, much (most?) of the world doesn't find body odor particularly unattractive. Most of the world finds rotting flesh and feces to smell terrible.
Every country have a different set of shortcodes. You can't use Russian shortcodes from the US and it's not easy to harness US shortcodes for Russian resident, especially fraudster (and vice versa).

That's how Eurovision voting works for example.
Traffic analysis is certainly an orthogonal problem to decryption of the ciphertext here. There's no reason to wait on one for the other.
Not sure I follow your comment. This is with -ffreestanding, how are you supposed to compile libc?
Oh, yeah, I was talking about subjective expectations of privacy. I didn't realize you were arguing a legal perspective. When I say expectations, I don't mean societal rights, I just mean what I expect to happen. I think they derive largely from how we experience the world physically, and I think that they translate poorly to online privacy. In particular, we usually consider conversations between two people to be private, but two computers talking to each other is quite often public.
More computational load = more CO2. Even if they offset CO2 emissions, that money could have been spent more efficiently by not running HTTPS.
Well, if I were a smart superscammer, which those guys probably are, I'd use geolocation and apply the code for said country. It ain't rocket science. They probably have to do it anyway to cover neighbor republics.
What problem did soda solve?

My understanding is that sodas were mostly introduced as mostly phoney patent medicines.. in other words they claimed to (but did not) solve problems that we no longer use them to solve. They didn't actually solve anything and their use today doesn't really have anything to do with solutions to any problem.
I agree- it's not okay to take proprietary code. But criminal charges and an 8 year sentence? Totally disproportionate.
We are actually creating a page similar to this for our clients. It will be live in a few days. We had a client directory but couldn't fit everyone on one page. So we decided to create smaller boxes for each clients. All of our clients will be on the same page and are encouraged to do business with each other and promote the page. Remember, hundreds of millions of people have come online in the past 5-10 years. And the key is not "copying" the exact idea but learning from and adapting all the models in the marketplace to create new projects. Ours is already selling but (BUT!)it is because we are already connected to these people (creatives, business owners, etc.) and we're not out to create a gimmick but simply to connect clients and friends of clients.
I'll repaste a comment I made elsewhere, that seems applicable here:

If a company is approached by any spooky three-letter agency, the higher-ups of that company could possibly interpret that as a validation that they've made it 'big' -- and furthermore, they could see in that offer a security that three-letter agencies then have an interest in seeing the company continue to scale up and succeed (because of limited funds, three-lettered agencies can't just go merrily creating tools that work properly with the 'next facebook' every other 9 months... and furthermore, there's no knowing if they'll come across resistance when they solicit 'direct access' to the next company. Also, NSA would have just loved it if China and Russia was a big user of Facebook... so I can even imagine them doing something subtle to try to make that a reality).

Sadly, I do not see this trend ending anytime soon.
In Russia you don't get your phone from carrier, you buy it in pristine condition from respective (Android) vendor.

Vendors put crapware there too but not much.
>allow for two years rival e-book retailers like Amazon and Barnes & Noble to provide links from their e-book apps to their own e-bookstores without paying any fee or commission to Apple on sales made through them.

This doesn't exactly seem fair to all the other companies who would still have to give up 30% commission over to Apple but can't raise their price (e.g. Netflix, Dropbox, etc).
> Judges are not always in a position, Boothby said, to understand how technology has outpaced the law.

How is it that this issue was not already addressed, yet?

Who runs this show?
Google In Discussions With Verizon To Bundle Google Play
Agree with rdl about the amount of history, although that's just a matter of time before you have more history on startups that are getting acquired, which is going to be really cool.

For Facebook/Twitter/LinkedIn it's probably more interesting to see likes and tweets (or some other sort of interaction score, like Klout) instead of just pure followers. Since followers are going to be pretty slowly climbing all the time. (Although maybe in larger time intervals followers would be more interesting.)

Annotations of events for the companies on the graphs (Google Finance style) would also be sweet, so they are easier to parse for outsiders.
Unfortunately, too long has passed and any misconduct in the investigations has been prescribed so noone will be prosecuted or even get a slap on the wrist. Most people involved have already retired as well after building their careers on the case.

However, on the bright side there will be investigations to see how the current system can be improved to reduce the chances of repeating it in the future. For example, in important cases there may be appointed a secondary prosecutor whose role is to be critical of the investigation.
Comcast business unfortunately is the most universal non crappy data option. Comcast is shit for support and policies, and performance varies, and they are evil, but their business product is marginally better. Webpass rocks if you are in one of their buildings. Sonic.net has an annex b two line bonded DSL product which is also proper IFF you are near enough one of their COs. sonic has the best policies/management, by far. If you live near a CO you can get 30/6 fusion. I have a deprecated YC deal for $55-80/mo 27/12 Comcast business; if I lived near a sonic co I'd go with them instead.
I know he says otherwise, but Armadillo never really struck me as a business out to make money. It was more a business to help develop workers and technology. The Carmack Prize, while not a part of AA, I think represents a philosophy in trying to encourage more thinkers into becoming hobbyists and more hobbyists into doing real stuff, which provides an excellent training environment for people to go onto other space companies.
raising $40 million...the investors most likely just made their money back at best. Maybe 2x for the early investors?
What law would be so dumb as to force an American browser to include malicious CAs, publically, and not also force everyone to only use those American browsers?

In your imagined dystopia what you're talking about doing (using a browser with safe CAs) would be illegal no matter where the browser really comes from.
i thought it was oceania.
Really? I have great service with T-Mobile in NYC, including Manhattan and Williamsburg. In many places with crowds of people, my friends who have AT&T aren't able to get service while I still get great HSDPA reception.

Just curious, what hardware are you using?
"If the NSA wanted to snoop Wikipedia lookups it would force Wikipedia to install PRISM-like access devices to the site itself, secretly."

Wikimedia employee here. FYI, we're headquartered in SF, but we have no datacenter here. All traffic goes through our datacenters in FL, VA, and Amsterdam.
The "what do I drink that'll taste better than water?" problem.
You gotta love antitrust regulators that work hard to further entrench the dominant competitor.

Get your External Antitrust Monitor resumes up on LinkedIn kids, xmas is coming early this year.
If your heart is set on a 2-in-1, here's some info on the convertibles I suggested.

This is the Helix. It was very close to being a perfect device, but it's held back by a 4-hour battery life. I'm hoping that Lenovo releases a Haswell version, but it might be a while because this one just came out.

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/notebooks/Lenovo-ThinkPad-He...

If the current version suits your needs, google "Lenovo Barnes and Noble Gold", you should be able to get a decent discount.

Here's the brand new Sony Vaio Duo 13. It's a slider, but if that doesn't bother you it's probably the best option for a 2-in-1. The only downside is that the keyboard is only average.

http://www.mobiletechreview.com/notebooks/Sony-Vaio-Duo-13.h...
makes me wonder, is there even anything else that they can do to block tethering apart from UA sniffing? given that the phone is unlocked and doesn't have any carrier's crapware in it.
On the other hand, switching to a VPN would make them flag your data (encrypted) and retain it longer (though you'd probably still be fine).
The authors barely responded to arguments about the immortality of the way animals are treated in most farms. They mainly just referred to the people they disagree with derisively and talked about how lucky those people are to not worry about starving. I'll grant that they, in passing, mentioned that gestation crates prevent pigs from fighting.

Their statement that they are able to produce more food for cheaper is a given. It's also a little silly in light of how inefficient meat production is.

This isn't the type of article that actually changes anybody's mind about anything.
you can just go to https://en.wikipedia.org and it works. We just do not have automatic redirection yet.
A cynic may suspect Yahoo were buying good press from the media sites and VC influencers whose pockets are being lined by these.

You think Khosla is going to cast doubt on Yahoo's strategy at whatever next "round table" confab he graces with his presence?

Or that TechCrunch will crap on Yahoo with the same vigor they use to crap on Microsoft, RIM, etc?
Fucken Moron. Why do you think 90% of the world believes in God? Retard. Can you personally prove relativity? Someone can--why do you believe. God spoke to someone.

God says...
C:\TAD\Text\WEALTH.TXT

e very circumstance which ought certainly to
alleviate it, the temptation to commit the crime. {See Sketches of the
History of Man page 474, and Seq.} Fourthly, by subjecting the people to
the frequent visits and the odious examination of the tax-gatherers, it
may expose them to much unnecessary trouble, vexation, and oppression;
and though vexation is not, strictly speaking, expense, it is certainly
equivalent to the expense at which every man would be willing to redeem
himself from it. It is in so

----

God can kill with a word.
I think there aren't any big Russian app stores (Yandex Store comes to mind but it's not big yet).

I've seen numerous reports of Google Play apps being served with malware / showing malware-triggering ads. So it's cat and mouse even with international stores.
That's not the issue. The issue is the majority of browser users will use the default set of root certificates. Forking and removing them is the least of the difficulties; getting people to use the fork is the problem.
I've always admired Carmack's candid insights. Rather than put up a PR facade instead he readily admits that he feels Armadillo stumbled because he took his hands off the wheel, failed to mass produce test rockets, and the staff spent too much energy coordinating with NASA rather than doing R&D. Very helpful pointers for entrepreneurs.

I don't care about these setbacks, I still have hopes for Armidillo and I think Carmack will realize his dream of VTOL rocketry eventually. He's taken the right approach of addressing a hard problem that no one is solving, and he is solving it very methodically. It's only a matter of time before the last obstacles are cleared.
Anyone have insight into what sort of timeline this is on? How long Apple could drag this out until books disappear from iTunes and consumers are stuck with the Kindle iOS app and it's non-native text selection bullshit?
Ooh, no, I think beeminding is pretty low overhead! Especially if you connect it with RescueTime or another automatic data source. Maybe still too much learning curve up front but once you have it set up and dialed in it's nearly frictionless.

I'm also anxious to learn what makes it give the impression of being a pseudo solution. We think of commitment devices as the nuclear option in the war on akrasia.
Almost eleven years ago, one Stana Claus contributed† the following factoid to history:

Just so you know, some varieties of corn have a dark reddish cob
while others have more of a whitish colored cob. When I was but a
wee child I was told by my beloved grandfather that the proper
outhouse technique required "two reds and a white". The red cobs
(apparently more readily available, at least in that locale) were
used for bulk removal, and the white was used to determine if the
job was sufficiently done. Surely, my grandfather wouldn't have
lied to a small impressionable child about such a thing!

†http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showpost.php?p=2363912&p...
Ember.js + CSS3 Swipe/Push Facebook-style Menu
You know why? I dont feel like bookmarks work well for me. Even with being able to type into the search bar. Also, It would take time to organize ALL of my bookmarks to where I could go just pick it from a list.

I even started to write a browser that puts focus on your daily patterns, frequent sites, frequent search terms, in order to somehow try and make tabs manageable and allow us to get back to the data we care about without hundreds of open tabs.
App store, via being led through affiliate links to the data source, or via exploits in default software. You can peddle malware through the official play store for a while until you get caught -- at which point, you rename the application, register a new dev account, and keep going.

I don't know where the servers are physically located, nor does it matter.
I'd say no.

It seems easy to worry entirely too much about a name or logo. I think a great product makes its name and great name can't save a bad product.

I think your current domain is fine, better even.

Say I'm a small business owner who used your service and I want to recommend it to a peer, I'd wager that my reccommendation is going to stick better as "Promostudio.com" than "V-I-D-D-I-O. No, it's like video, except it has two Ds and I in place of E. No, V-I-D-D-I-O."
Seems to me that if a compression scheme simply introduced a random size adjustment with each compression, it could defeat the subtle size measurements necessary for this attack to work. Might not even have to be very large random adjustments.
Not yet for en.m.wikipedia.org.
Why can't you poach employees for less than $2M each?
ITT: massive amounts of naturalistic fallacy.
jury of my pears? Why would the jury consist of fruits?
He might disobey a personal gag order, but I can assure you that as long as PRISM exists, U.S. companies will comply if targeted.

There are also plenty of other attack vectors for the NSA even with HTTPS; obtaining the private keys of the common certification authorities is perhaps the most straightforward.
Wow, finally a reason to buy Google Glass! Hope now they will deliver Google Car Keys₢
Workers at 'click farms' create appearance of online popularity
What's your /. username?
Years back an online friend coined Japhy's Law: the facts you most want to be true are those you should be most suspicious of.
Definitely. Since it's part of the contract that tethering isn't allowed, and (I assume, don't remember) that they can 'terminate service' for anyone at any time for any reason, they could: watch the pattern of traffic to identify well-known desktop apps, completely disconnect the worst 0.1% of offenders on the (very likely) assumption that they're guilty, and demand they pay up. Even a VPN won't hide you there, unless you have something that defeats traffic analysis (a definite possibility, but not a normal tool either, afaik).
It had DMA to its own memory, not to the host computer's memory.
In very brief, Apple and a half dozen publishers engaged in a white line price fixing conspiracy, all the publishers pled guilty, and naturally their counterparty was found guilty. A price fixing conspiracy that causes damage to consumers is white line illegal in the US; in this case, the prices of many ebooks went up by quite a bit.

Which leads straight to all but one of the remedies, like terminating all those deals with the publishers and for 5 years refraining from striking any vaguely similar deal with publishers. And extending this sort of thing to other media, seeing as how they are now a convicted (and unrepentant) price fixer.

As for the remaining remedy ... don't know about the legal basis for it, but Amazon was the main target of all the parties in the price fixing conspiracy.

There's a bit more detail here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc._litigation#eBook_pri...