skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And, this is the reason that Bing and other search engines will never be able to compete with Google. ANALYTICS! This free 'software crack' just keeps getting more addictive.

A few years ago I built what I think is a revolutionary privacy solution (applied for a patent but never released it publicly) and as part of that I loaded the top 1M web sites by Alexa rank. I can tell you that more than 70% include this script -- from Aljazeera to Zillow -- all the Russian sites, all the Chinese sites, etc. The privacy game was never about search results. It's about in-site logging and THOSE analytics. Think about that the next time you're browsing YouPorn -- someone else is watching you, looking at what you click on, how long you watch for, how many times you replay a certain part, etc. G knows more about your fetishes that you could articulate yourself!
In the past I've been told that I'm "over qualified." (completely ridiculous)
Also cringeworthy is "Assembled in USA" with pictures of the device showing a photo of a person draped in the stars'n'stripes.

Snapping in place a back plate doesn't change the reality that the device is 99% manufactured and assembled in China.

Disappointing from Motorola/Google.
Every successive incarnation of dataflow scheduling uses a matching store and synchronization tokens on long-latency operations. You have them in Tomasulo's reservation stations at a very small scale (considering FUs as unpredictable), in the MTA throughout the memory system, in the D-RISC core of my research group, and quite a few others.

It's quite a common and recurrent idea really. However promises / dataflow tokens / I-structures / etc all are subject to a common flaw / problem: when you receive multiple completions simultaneously, which of them are you going to schedule first? This choice is highly non-obvious and has tremendous impacts on data locality.
Hahaha, I really enjoyed that. Do you just post rants in the middle of the night or do you blog? If so, please share.
Hm. I tried to be careful when I used the word "hoax"; for instance, I described it elsewhere as an "inadvertent hoax". But I'll go farther here: I think the story was dishonest and deliberately sensationalized. Yeah, I'll call it a hoax. Sure.
Both are right-wing, and both contain centrist and more right-wing factions, but I do believe the Partido Colorado is more right wing.

It's not always a bad thing, I for instance would like a harder stance on security. But they do have some very troubling individuals, and my family knows Dr. Pedro Bordaberry (the son of the one that led to the dictatorship, and current leader of the party) extremely well, and he is extremely right wing.

My girlfriend was secretary of one of the sectors of the Partido Nacional, so I also know a lot of people there, and in my opinion they're slightly more centrist, but (also strictly IMO) they still have a huge problem with cronyism and corruption, not that the governing party doesn't, but they haven't managed to purge that yet.
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Sorry, my second sentence made it sound like my response was intended to be snarky, but I in fact understand where you're coming from and don't expect you to have the full context for random G+ stories.

Again: when someone writes something on their G+ page, it's hard to accuse them of not meeting journalistic standards; it's a G+ page. If McCullagh wanted that post to be on CNet, it would have been on CNet.
that is my point - i never told publicly about the raid on our apartment until this post. It just things that happen and you're happy afterward that its over. I didn't and don't intend to flame it up as i don't want any further troubles.
I'm sorta disappointed.
Awesome man, glad to hear you are planning on paying it back. What else do you want to do with CrowdDare? Any other ideas for getting PR for it?
She did perpetuate a hoax.
Agreed. As a designer, I don't want to waste space with this for two form inputs, not including the CVV. On pages asking for your CC information, there's generally a lot more than just this going on, and the possibility it creates confusion for those who think it is merely a graphic representing a card, and not part of the process itself, during the most important aspect of the sale just doesn't fly with me.
Also Android 4.2.2
You might even say, it's skeuomorphism.
Thanks for the reply.

> Yes, alcohol is freely sold everywhere

Don't stores need licenses to sell alcohol? Or are you comparing it as "any store with a liquor license" vs. "only pharmacies"? I can see that as being a bit restrictive, yeah.

> For comparison, cigarettes and alcohol are anonymous

Right, but that relates to your point about being required to register... I was just asking about concern over the first point (regulation). I agree that the registration isn't optimal.
The irony of the Internet, just as easy to make an NSA profile as it is for a person tracking.
Learn timeless skills from books. Algorithms. AI, Statistics. Machine Learning. Compilers. New languages. etc.

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I would add small labels for Mon, Tue, ... Sun on the movable frame.
>CamelCase CapitalPartners

I imagined a very late-1990s VC firm, complete with swoosh logo. (http://37signals.com/enormicom/09.html)
The only thing implausible here is that the FBI or other Federales would reveal intelligence sources and methods so carelessly.

The fact remains that the gov't maintains systems that monitor and log online activity with automatic flagging/storage based on keywords. I do find it unlikely that peon-agents and JTTF types have routine access to that data, but I wouldn't have been surprised to learn that some info regarding a potential threat might have been passed down to peon-agents with a suggestion or task for them to follow up on.
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Visual Studio with a VIM emulator plugin is pretty nice...
Why was the employer going through a former employees browsing history?
I read ESR's new post on race relations prophylactically before reading this thread; my face is already covered in a protective layer of leaked cerebrospinal fluid from the resulting ruptures.
Not if you are actually over-qualified, which makes hiring managers doubt how long you'll stick around.
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I respect that you managed to restate a point I spent ~500 words making in just 70 words.
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I would really like to use it for charitable purposes although the users can use it for whatever they like. In terms of PR I think I might do a dare that raises money for The American Cancer Society. I need to come up with a dare that is worth people's donation though. So far I haven't come up with anything I think is good enough.
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You probably don't need 40% of protein for building muscle. The known evidence points to 1.5g per kg of body mass (~=.75g/lb) being more than enough. In my case that works out to about 20%. I doubt that it would reach 40% unless you have a very unusual diet.

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> Don't stores need licenses to sell alcohol?

Nope, they don't. You don't need a license to sell cigarettes either, both are free to sell here in Uruguay (always for people over 18).

Heck, the government has it's own brands of Whiskey and spirits ! (ANCAP sells those, both under the Ancap brand, and Mac Pay)

http://www.whisky.com.uy/marcas-de-whisky/mac-pay/

The government does want to introduce a license to sell alcohol, and a ban on selling alcohol in stores after 10 pm.

You can currently buy alcohol basically everywhere (supermarkets, stores, gas stations, kiosks), and there's a problem with the ban on underages not being respected.
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not quite intellisense, as it's just one file at a time
I didn't realize until much later, but linking to a 60 year old events as a detriment to an action NOW is absolutely ridiculous. It's like, yeah, thank god I'm not Japanese, so I don't have to be imprisoned in a concentration camp right now!
> The "no servers" clause, and its inconsistent enforcement, has been a part of literally every single consumer ISP ToS I have ever been a party to since the 90s.

It hasn't been part of any of the ones I've been party two prior to 2000, or any of the ones after that except the ones from major telcos (but then, the ones prior to 2000 I was party two weren't, by any stretch, broadband.) But, even so, it doesn't really matter, since prior to the Open Internet Report and Order for which Google lobbied, there weren't FCC transparency requirements on fixed broadband providers, or neutrality rules which included transparency as a factor in determining whether a restriction was reasonable network management. There is now, and Google's decidedly non-transparent practice is inconsistent with the policy for which it lobbied.

> I have a hard time seeing it as anything but a longstanding, standard practice of reasonable network management

I have a hard time seeing it as "reasonable network management" given the way that term is used in the FCC Open Internet Report and Order, a policy for which Google lobbied.

If you can defend the idea that it is such within that context, I would like to hear the argument. But simply repeating time and again the same old "everyone has always done it" argument isn't making that case.
Didn't your mother taught you that you have to eat your vegetables?
Sounds like interesting work! I'll be in Tuscaloosa in a couple weeks ... do you give tours to visitors?
I see your point. However I think that historically "Partido Nacional" is far more linked with typical right wing ideals and stereotypes. Anyway, I think we aren't adding much value with a political discussion about Uruguay here.
I really liked your summary about the topic.
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Though statistically you are correct, I'd like to see a comparison of not only current tax rates, but tax rates compared to debt/deficits.

The US may be collecting less taxes, but if they're just putting the remainder on credit, then they aren't really any further ahead (and possibly behind).

I did a quick search, but didn't come up with anything.
Only Apple? When I worked at IBM, we were encouraged to patent every little thing possible (You get 750$/patent). I dont believe this is an apple problem but more of tech industry problem.. Didn't Google just buy massive amount of Lucent network patents?
When you already have support multiple valued returns, I don't see that checked exceptions get you much that's worth making signatures more complicated.

Seriously?

Does your test-suite exercise every potential I/O error and timeout on every single of your I/O calls?
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Pretty sad. Guy Kawasaki had everyone super excited about building their own phone and we end up with just color and capacity choices. Plenty of phones with the later, not to mention SD card slots which are far more capable, and nearly everyone can already choose their color just by tossing a case on it. We even have companies selling custom 3D printed color cases with whatever you want on them in far more detail than this allows.
Great find! You are correct, it ranks even higher than "pressure cooker recipes" in the Google autocomplete.

Does Google autocomplete usually indicate something is a common search term?

Undoubtedly "pressure cooker recipes" is a common search term used by people who have received a pressure cooker as a gift. But "pressure cooker bomb" seems to be a more common search, is that a reasonable conclusion from the Google autocomplete behavior?

https://support.google.com/websearch/answer/106230?hl=en

Google says "The search queries that you see as part of autocomplete are a reflection of the search activity of all web users and the content of web pages indexed by Google."

So two things. Perhaps there are many more pages dealing with bombs than recipes though. Let's find out.

"pressure cooker recipes" reports "About 6,360,000 results".

"pressure cooker bomb" reports "About 1,720,000 results".

Thus Google believes there are six times as many pages dealing with pressure cooker recipes as there are pages dealing with pressure cooker bombs. Therefore, given that they state that both content and search activity are used to form the autocomplete ranking, searching for "pressure cooker bomb" is a fairly common and unremarkable activity. This is not surprising given that it has been in the news a lot this last year.

Should then searching for common things that many people search for and which are relevant to recent news be considered evidence that one is engaging in terrorist activity and should be investigated and their house search? I would say, no, that is not reasonable.
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Interesting idea.

One bug I noticed: if you enter one of the sample numbers such that the number splits into multiple fields, then backspace starting from the end, you'll end up moved to the beginning of the first field with the first few digits still filled in, rather than backspacing over them.

More generally, any time you construct your own custom input rather than using browser input fields as designed, you end up with this kind of brokenness because you have to reimplement browser logic.

I'd love to see an <input type="creditcard">, with an input-creditcard.js polyfill, and native support added to browsers. On platforms that already know your credit card number, this would allow for simple auto-fill of all relevant information. This would also make life easier for things like Google Wallet that construct virtual credit cards for you, and it would allow for browser extensions that integrate with credit-card vendors to produce one-time tokens.
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This detail matters very little for the story - the issue is if government people investigated a family on suspicion of terrorism because they looked for kitchenware on the internet, not how the agency these people worked for is called. If they work for Department of Education SWAT team [1] it were as bad as if they worked for FBI. The problem is not that they didn't have the right badge but that they invade privacy for no good reason.

[1] yes, DoE has SWAT teams: http://reason.com/blog/2011/06/08/dept-of-education-swat-tea...
>For example, if you get rid of reasonable royalty damages and force patent holders to prove actual damages, it'll become very hard for trolls to go forward with a suit.

Maybe. It could be worth trying. The concern is that trolls will just start selling a sham product in order to claim actual damages. And there is still the problem of industry incumbents using bad patents and the threat of ruinous litigation to destroy innovative smaller competitors.

>This changes the nature of a patent completely, but I think not in a bad way. If your patent is really worthwhile, independent invention should be negligibly probable.

If we could easily prove whether something was copied, sure. I think the problem is that it's so difficult for either side to prove that one way or the other, so whichever side has the burden of proof usually loses. If plaintiffs have to prove copying (and "proof" means something like defendants admitting they copied, and not something like the products being similar) then you're making serious trouble for legitimate patent holders when some Chinese supplier rips off their patents but they have no way to prove it wasn't independent invention.

Which is where it comes down to pragmatics: Drug companies (for example) aren't going to stand for anything that would create that much exposure for them, so you either have to solve that problem for them or we're back to creating carve outs for different industries.
I'm from Puerto Rico, supporter of the Sovereign Free Associated State, can you reference those two alternative papers you've mentioned? It gets harder and harder to find straight policy files. For example South Korea's recently combined new economic policies for economic development, they're mostly in bits and pieces throughout blogs.
Interesting paragraph here: "The FBI develops some hacking tools internally and purchases others from the private sector. With such technology, the bureau can remotely activate the microphones in phones running Google Inc.'s Android software to record conversations, one former U.S. official said. It can do the same to microphones in laptops without the user knowing, the person said. Google declined to comment."
Also, something I didn't think about, but if this push forces other companies to follow suit, and makes free wifi more standard, then this indirect effect could be pretty big.
How do you figure? Did the JTTF interrogate her husband and search their house? Did they ask about pressure cookers? Are they now saying it was because of a web search that they initiated the interrogation and search? Yes or no?

To say this is a hoax is to say these things did not happen. What is your evidence of this?
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The phrasing suggests that the state does the actual selling, which seems fundamentally broken. Regulate, sure, but don't become part of the market you're regulating.
Wow, look at that. As soon as you hit the spacebar, you're a terrorist! That's nuts.
Oookay, now I see what you meant. I guess I get that point but don't find it reasonable in today's age of the collision of journalism and social media. A G+ page that identifies you as a professional journalist is likely to be treated and interpreted by readers as a source of journalism. I suspect if Declan was an enterprise Java developer the post wouldn't have been paid much attention, or up-voted. Apologies for dragging this out though, I think my confusion caused us both to belabor our points :)
No internet can sharpen your brain, since you're forced to come up with solutions rather than Googling for the answer immediately.
No, "the JTTF" didn't interrogate her husband. The Suffolk PD did, because the employer called them. It's hard to respond to the other questions because they're premised on the first.
I'd be grateful if you would be kind enough to share results after testing. Happy to sign-up to a mailing list to be notified.
I don't know if the browsers would tolerate this, but it should be possible to pad the compressed payload, rather than the source document.

A DEFLATE stream [0] is made of blocks whose first bit determines whether it is the last one.

One could add a number of random bytes after the last block such that the payload always has the same length, or is a multiple of a reasonably large number of bytes.

This assumes that the decoder will ignore it whatever follows the last block.

Another, cleaner option: Use a Trailer HTTP header, using Chunked transfer encoding[1].

The technique should also work with gzip.

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[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DEFLATE#Stream_format, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1951.txt

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chunked_transfer_encoding
Any good online editors with vi mode out there?
If you see something suspicious taking place then report that behavior or activity to local law enforcement or in the case of emergency call 9-1-1.

http://www.dhs.gov/if-you-see-something-say-something

These types of reports always increase after incidents like the Boston bombings.
Absolutely stunning that Occam's Razor won out.
Per an update via the The Atlantic Wire:

"
Update, 7:05 p.m.: Because the Googling happened at work.

The Suffolk County Police Department released a statement this evening that answers the great mystery of the day.

Suffolk County Criminal Intelligence Detectives received a tip from a Bay Shore based computer company regarding suspicious computer searches conducted by a recently released employee. The former employee’s computer searches took place on this employee’s workplace computer. On that computer, the employee searched the terms “pressure cooker bombs” and “backpacks.”
After interviewing the company representatives, Suffolk County Police Detectives visited the subject’s home to ask about the suspicious internet searches. The incident was investigated by Suffolk County Police Department’s Criminal Intelligence Detectives and was determined to be non-criminal in nature.
"

http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2013/08/government-k...
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