skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I wonder if it's more about influence and money beyond the politics. Bit more of an explanation in this comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6243392
"80/20" sounds good, but if what a blogger is writing is this good, then why not just create your own blog to attract their own audience? As the author said, it is free. Also, I would think that bloggers usually just want to share thoughtful articles and other information with the world and are not actually expecting to make money (I hope). I think a great idea is one that is just great (period) with or without any revenue.
New look ? What has changed to the theme ? http://getbootstrap.com/examples/theme/

The default look is to make customization easier. So if you download the theme Bootstrap still looks the same.
It's just as safe to use GnuPG on a public terminal as it is to use any other password-protected functionality on a public terminal. You run the risk that the terminal is recording your input and that your password may be compromised. In one case, this may compromise the security of your private key, and in the other case, it may compromise the security of your email account.

One could argue that GnuPG is actually safer on a public terminal than generic online email access, because if you keep your keys on a USB stick, it's another critical piece of data that would have to get collected separately before the captured input data was of any use (this could be automated, but it'd be much harder than just running a keylogger, especially if one undertakes avoidance techniques). If one accesses an ordinary email service, the log would look like "gmail.com↲cookiecaper↲mypassword", which obviously contains all information necessary to access an account. As long as the private key is not automatically copied by the terminal, you can simply change your passphrase after each usage of a public terminal and it simply won't matter if someone stole your input or not.

The only issue is that in the real world, most terminals do not have GnuPG installed. We should be using taking this opportunity to try to change that, while public interest is on the topic.
If USB 4.0 doesn't come labeled as "LudicrousSpeed" I will be severely disappointed.

EDIT: For those who don't get the reference: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygE01sOhzz0
Teach people about client-side encryption.
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The Wikipedia article on Microsoft's DNS server states that bind 4 was not used, and that the Microsoft's DNS server was fully written by Microsoft. Sadly, it doesn't have a source, so it kind of leaves the question open.
Shuttering a press outlet is a different thing in kind than what is happening right now.

The US is not Zimbabwe or Burma or Jordan. It has its serious flaws and issues that need to be addressed, but we shouldn't mistake the kind of creature that we are dealing with. Making that mistake will lead one to seriously misunderstand what the interests and possible courses of action that western governments will pursue.

Also, if one wanted to be really crabby about it, it's kind of disrespectful to all of the journalists who paid with their lives to contribute to the civic sphere to equate pervasive surveillance (as serious and insidious as it is) with the pervasive fear of physical harm and death that some journalists face.

Marcela Turati did a terrifyingly good job of conveying the price that Mexican journalists pay at the Investigative Reporters & Editors conference this year. If you really want to get a sense of that, you can watch the video here: http://ire.org/conferences/ire-2013/keynote/
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i'm happy to hand over admin access to the repo as soon as someone asks for it. i would really hate to see cvv8 go to waste (IMH (and biased) opinion it's the best binding/conversion lib for v8), but i can't deal with them pulling the rug out from under me again (this is not the first time they've done it, only the most invasive, and it IS the first time they've warned us in advance).
All I know about medium is that it won't render in opera mini which I use on my phone for speed and battery life. I know I have no excuse if I don't use a "modern" browser so I can't complain. But still, for a site that just displays some text with inline pictures, I wonder why they couldn't deliver it with some simpler tech.
They're not going to pay him. To do so would be legally risky, and set a precedent that could be helpful to actual malicious attackers in civil litigation. "Don't use accounts without accountholder consent" is the single most important term in a bug bounty; if you don't honor it, you're not participating in the bug bounty, but rather doing something else.
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The interesting thing isn't so much that HO defends the action, which was fully expected, but that it's twisted the position so it no longer has to defend an abuse of a law designed to specifically deal with terrorism. The difference between 'carrying documents to terrorists' and 'carrying documents that if leaked by accident to terrorists would have large national security implications' is huge.

If you're carrying classified documents relating to a country's national security apparatus the likelihood is they're going to find something to trap you on, but the way they're going about it is thoroughly dishonest and sleazy. If you oppose the action of retrieving information and abusing one of our laws, then you must be in favour of terrorism and on the list you go.

It's another warning basically, keep your head down or face the consequences. Add it on with the U.S. gov pushing for 60 years for Manning, and high level members of the UK government threatening legal action against a newspaper if they don't turn over/destroy material facts in an ongoing series of investigative journalism.
I think it'd be too difficult to execute this plan.
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It worked fairly well, just not as intended (Unless I'm mis-remembering, the intention was to keep the key secret while wikileaks released small amounts of info at a time)
Not directly, but who do you think runs the jails and lobbies for stricter laws to fill those jails?
> The fact that most OSes are not written in C++ is a good indication of the fact.

This is just inertia and only true on UNIX world due to how C is tied to UNIX.

BeOS, Symbian, Genode -> C++

Mac OS X -> drivers are done in C++ (IOKit)

Windows -> C is now official deprecated and C++ is the way to go. (http://herbsutter.com/2012/05/03/reader-qa-what-about-vc-and... && Herb's remarks at BUILD 2012)
Did the old IP stack have any MIT licensed software, or was it all BSD?
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A HMRC technical expert sounds very vague, also they (the technical expert) do not have the authority to apply VAT to an item. VAT laws are very proscriptive that is why when they add VAT (or change the rate) to e.g. hot foods, it is done through the budget by government and not by HMRC. That is why M&S were involved in a long running battle with HMRC over VAT on teacakes (the marshmallow/chocolate kind) or why Jaffa cakes dont have VAT on them (big legal case to prove they are cakes (VAT exempt) and not chocolate biscuits (not VAT exempt).

PS. the reason a jaffa cake is vat exempt is because when it goes stale it goes hard (like a cake) whereas a biscuit goes soft.

If you are actually concerned about this ask for something in writing that specifically states they are not exempt from VAT and at which rate VAT is applied to them. I am willing to bet that they will not provide an official document that shows VAT is applicable because no offical detrmination has been made. If it had it would have been significant news in the bitcoin world especially amongst UK users.
As others have said — it's the side impact test that makes the Tesla Model S so notable.

There again, the F1 has one major advantage — it has a monocoque, and should therefore to do better than most (unibody) cars on the market. But to make a monocoque out of something like carbon fibre you need a lot of money!

(Good examples of this are the two Audi R18 crashes at Le Mans in 2011: http://www.carmaautolife.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Rock... is one after a ~200mph crash and spin into crash barrier. He got out on his own two feet. Pretty much everything but the monocoque is gone. Videos can be found on YouTube of both this and McNish's crash. At night, with so little video available, could scarcely tell what car it was…)
Looking at how they calculate "depth", I would say it's just as likely measuring edit-wars. It's not evident that it's measuring quality and I don't think it should be used as a target or marker for quality.

I often find myself clicking on the Dutch translation link - it regularly has more concise, useful data.
This counterproductive use of the courts is just the latest development in a story which doesn't quite add up. Miranda said that the police asked him to hand over all his passwords ("they got me to tell them the passwords for my computer and mobile phone"), and (in the same interview) claimed "he didn't have a role", but then Rusbridger says (in the same article) that "[Greenwald] is regularly helped by David Miranda. Miranda is not a journalist, but he still plays a valuable role in helping his partner do his journalistic work." Miranda also claims that he didn't know what he was carrying, despite assisting his partner, visiting this film-maker, and knowing all the passwords!

Greenwald, the Guardian et. al don't get it: in order to convince me that they are in the right about surveillance, they need to be beyond reproach. I don't necessarily agree with the use of surveillance programs, but I certainly don't agree with the cynical truth-mangling tactics of the other side: because the truth is really the only advantage that side has. How did we get into this situation?
FWIW, i agree completely that v8 has to serve its primary target, and there was never any illusion that that wasn't Chrome. i'm not mad about them for that. i'm just frustrated at giving up something i put literally thousands of hours into creating, tweaking, and documenting. :/ It is my sincere hope that someone will pick it up and port it.
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nice..but why should i switch from Bootstrap..
looks light..
skin builder is better than bootstrap's..

any other advantages in using this??
> My recommendation system for what to read in Medium isn't Medium. It's HN.

Exactly. I would suggest Medium run with this idea, actually: detect your referrer, then wire a single "like this" button to that service's equivalent of an upvote, and "comment on this" to that service's equivalent of either a reblog/retweet mechanism, or a comments page. Don't try to keep users on Medium, in other words; instead, make Medium a seamless part of whatever site they were already using.
Sure, look at http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2013/aug/20/groklaw-sh...

States explicitly "Groklaw relied in some cases on email tips from readers and other anonymous sources".

Following the early days of the SCO reporting it was obvious there was unreleased information being shared. There was even lots of discussion about whether Groklaw was some secret group of IBM agents and stuff like that due to the knowledge and insight being displayed at the time.
No programmer is going hungry in the US.
David Cameron is going to have answer about this at the next election. He should be trembling in his boots.
I see you deleted your reply, I hope that does not prevent you from seeign that i did reply to it.
Just as 2013 is the year where "ordinary people" have begun to understand that "the cloud" is a scam.

And the year when we understand that we are all lemmings.
I remember the 90s when people were afraid of putting their credit cards on ecommerce sites, and now they put their whole lifes and assets online.
Aaron Swartz reviewed Chomsky's "Understanding Power" (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/epiphany). It's the best introduction I know.

The system isn't a secret; there's no conspiracy. Obama really is president; election money has a deciding effect on elections; our "democracy" is top-down (and anyone who takes history/politics seriously knows it isn't really a democracy, though it has some democratic forms); our economic resources are owned by elites; etc.

But just as we don't use commercials to help us evaluate the technical specs of some commodity, we shouldn't believe utterances of those in power (it's no secret they're generally written by professionals called "speechwriters"). Instead, we look at their decisions, actions, institutional forces, history, etc. Tends to make things a lot clearer.

[Edit: also try looking at things from the perspective of an observer from Mars; it's oddly helpful.]
Haven't sold all of it, so its not fully realized. Sometimes it pays to go all in.
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> Some of the word behind the scenes in the SMPTE world this summer is that 60fps could be too much of a gamble and Avatar will go out in 48fps. No one will say this publicly, and Cameron and team are still hyping 60fps in general while not committing to anything. But there are fears that if shot at 60fps, there’s no clean way to play the movie at 24fps in some theaters– an easier transition for 48fps but even untested in 48 given that that issue helped derail the move to SMPTE DCP for The Hobbit release. And fear that current playback gear can’t do 450Mb/s at 60fps. Gear manufacturers say they can do 500Mb/s, but the studios in reality have to settle for less, due to the bit-rate bottlenecks in various systems.”

Never thought about that but yes it makes sense that the conversion from 48fps to 24fps is easy whereas the one from 60fps to 24fps seems impossible or cumbersome. If this is delaying the 60fps age, then I'm really sad about it :(
Not ever going to happen. All you've accomplished then is abdicated your vote to people who did.

Would be more realistic to elect a third party, meaning someone who is not part of the corrupt R/D duopoly.
I'm not sure what point you're trying to (obliquely) make, but the fact that you're bringing up that essay in response to someone correcting an incorrect pronoun makes me suspect you've grossly misunderstood it.
Always an enticing product idea: something bioluminescent that sits on your nightstand. Not as cool as bioluminescent goldfish (as in Big Bang Theory), but still could be impressive. If successful, is this a harbinger of more biological toys?
Only somebody that believes in black-and-white separation between good and evil would insist that the good guys have to be beyond all reproach.

Life isn't that simple.
I'd say "inhuman and degrading" is more than "bordering on torture" but it's a fair point.
The criticism on the business or social aspects of Medium may be valid, but the technical team at Medium is very impressive. I hope they end up open sourcing some of the work they've done. Right now they are mostly experimenting, but eventually they will create a very awesome product with great technology.
Sure thing. I've had some experience with the blacklist detection due to a JS file hosted on a trusted 3rd party site that had another section of their site hacked (meaning their site was blacklisted and anything pulling resources from their site was similarly blacklisted). I researched more about how things worked then and have been sharing when I can since then. I hadn't seen your specific situation before but it is my guess based on an understanding of how similar scanning setups work.

For future reference, another useful tool is Sucuri SiteCheck, which will show you the results of multiple website malware blacklists on one page: http://sitecheck.sucuri.net/scanner/

(I checked and http://wp-abtesting.com/ is clean)
> ... If you don't know use a gender neutral word ...

"it"?
Why not do a bit check optimization instead of looking at whole characters?
Thank you, TallGuyShort :). i think i did come across as a bit bitchy, but i tried to stay on topic and removed lots of stuff i wrote simply out of primal frustration :/. i'm only human ;). i thought about it for a couple months before writing it, and spent a couple days rewriting it, to make sure i wasn't just sending flame bait.
You're missing your flight.
Odd to see a subscription link to The Guardian here, they are doing fantastic work so I understand people might want to kick back.

I will say their iPad version is excellently put together if anyone is considering taking the plunge.
One in a succession of many!

I had to laugh at myself when the one glimmer of hope in my taking of this recent series of events, was the distraction of John Carmack joining Oculus Rift. I went from quite thorough disillusionment to dreaming of the future of technology, just for the few hours afterwards.
Maserati is what I think of when I see it. It's a beautiful blend between sport/luxury. I think 'normal' is a better description than 'bland'. It's about time we stopped making things look like space pods just because they're unconventional (the original Honda Insight comes to mind.)
Nice idea, much like Soundrop (initially just a Spotify app but I see they have a web app now). I was an avid user of Soundrop when it first came out.

Why I've stopped using Soundrop is that most folk, myself included, just go into the room and don't vote up or add tracks. One person's tastes or agenda prevails and the result is generally not as interesting as a curated music blog or editorial like Pitchfork.
All this Guardian praise neglects the fact that they have had all of their exclusives handed to them over the past few years, from Wiki-leaks to Snowden... and for no good reason other than that's who it was given to last time.

If papers such as the independent, etc. had been given this information, I'm sure there professionalism would have been the same or higher. Outside of handed-on-a-platter reporting, the Guardian has massively cocked up in the past (leading to the arrest of sources, etc.).
Break the system without being harmed.
wanted to break the system where work is in a private network which does not have access to some sites and not allowed to install programs, which are viable for me in my day to day within the workplace, I wonder some form of qubrar this block and not harm me such as my dismissal. have some way?
Good idea. Let's show the media world that we care about topics like the NSA-scandal. I'm subscribing.
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Considering that Snowden's first revelation was just this June, I think a lot has happened in a few short months. Public opinion takes time to build. This is not a one-time event to be forgotten. This is a crack in the very foundation of our er... society, or whatever. The bill to reign in the NSA almost passed remember? That's just after a few months from the initial revelation. I will bet that by this time next year, things will look very different.
I don't have the funds to support the Guardian, although I appreciate the work they do. Hope they come out with a paid Android app by the time I can support them financially.
> they need to be beyond reproach

I don't understand this thinking. Greenwald and the Guardian have very little power in comparison to the intel agencies and governments they report on. Why is their conduct more important than the people they're reporting on, people we already know are misusing law and the power of government?

If anything, intel agencies and governments need to convince me they're beyond reproach or I'm just going to assume that their amoral ways will only get worse.
Last time the RC was posted everyone was saying it was a beta and not an RC. So either it was ready for release or they just released a beta.
You're right. Point withdrawn.
Nevertheless, I think that supporting Greenwald and Miranda's paychecks is a worthwhile cause. They're taking a far greater hit here than the Guardian is, but the Guardian is supporting them. So an effective way of supporting Greenwald and Miranda is to support the Guardian.
Simply looking at the site and its content model, it's obvious, to me at least, that it's the internet equivalent of a publisher's slush file. People have a greater appetite for reading, but are not yet willing to pay for it. So content pieces that wouldn't fit into a more serious publication can be shown there.

Authors can complain all they want about the platform, how there's little money in it, how they can't build an audience, and all these complaints do is highlight the author's naiveté. These things are set by the market's appetite, not your ego. If you want your writing to be taken seriously, then take seriously the craft of writing. Medium doesn't suck, you suck. And you're on Medium because you suck. It's about an efficient a market as you can find, because there's exactly zero barriers to entry.
I have now gotten for myself an email there,
p.jones at mykolab.com in case anyone wishes
to contact me over something really important
and feels squeamish about writing to an email
address on a server in the US.

PJ could help people understand the real issues if she explained that all plaintext mail is vulnerable. It's not only about the mail host, it's the network itself that's compromised.

Switching to Kolab is false comfort for people who are "squeamish" about sending mail to "a server in the US".

I'd love to see PJ publish her public key and encourage people to learn how to use it.
> Pick up that can.

Funny you quote HL2. It's a quite subversive game. I only recently had the chance to play the HL1 expansion packs - yay being a mac gamer - and they struck me as having a quite anti-authority message, too.

It's only recently that it occurred to me that HL2 brainwashed a generation of gamers into believing that photography drones were naturally the enemy. Very interesting.
Now more than ever is when we need sites like this. This all plays right into the government's hands. They may as well keep it up because people are self-censoring and that makes their jobs easier.
what, the age old problems with the rtc are not handled by windows 8 benchmarking?

i feel this has been noticed nearly 20 years late...

maybe its because i have been a low level guy for a while, but ffs people, know your platform before you start using random features. despite the overriding idea that platform and 'big company' apis are good there are plenty of cases where you can do much better yourself - this is why so much of games industry code is hand rolled.
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Really? And blow the monarchy's neutrality? Defy the voted for will of the people?

Given the tone of your post, can I assume you would want her to do this in order to undermine the monarchy?
I don't think I'd consider the Mercedes SLS dorky.
That's absolutely true, but you also don't need a special mechanism to pop the hinges.
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Shouldn't we be doing more to discuss the nature of classified material that was exposed by the press, rather than just whether the "free press" is a good thing? Isn't there a continuum between reporting on e.g. D-Day invasion plans two days before and a judge who accepted cash to issue an injunction to stop vote counting in a contested election? And wouldn't the press be guilty of treason for the former, but fourth-branch status for the latter?
What you can use elections for is to extort policies from elected officials. The problem is that means being willing to vote for the greater evil if you don't get the things the country needs and our country is unwilling to enter into that mentality.