skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Joyent owns the trademark and copyright on the IP related to Node.js. (Logo, "Node.js" mark, etc.) They also are involved with marketing, legal, etc.

The active core committers over the last month, and their employers, in order of whether or not they're me:

- Isaac Z. Schlueter (npm author/admin, lead gatekeeper, stream maintainer, javascripter), Joyent

- Ben Noordhuis (issues list champion, most opinionated C++ developer, libuv unix guy), StrongLoop

- TJ Fontaine (build owner, C shim author, tracing afficianado, Master of Robots), Joyent

- Trevor Norris (performance perfectionist, master of dirty hacks), Mozilla

- Fedor Indutny (russian ninja rockstar, TLS tamer), Voxer

Also very important to the project are Bert Belder (Windows guy, libuv co-author) at StrongLoop, and Scott Blomquist (Windows bug-chaser, Microsoft liason) at Microsoft.

Honorable Mention to Ryan Dahl (Node.js creator, BDFL) who is currently off being a professional hipster somewhere in NYC, and not involved with the project. When he did work on Node, he was paid by Joyent, and he got some money for selling the copyright to the company as well.

The Node.js community experience would be much less pleasant if not for Nodejitsu's continued support of the public npm registry. (Nodejitsu acquired IrisCouch a few months ago.)

Node would continue on even if Joyent bit the dust. (Depending on who assumed ownership of the mark, it may or may not have to change name/logo.)

If you've had a bad experience in the past with Joyent, it probably has nothing to do with the experience you might have with Node.js. I am given free reign here to manage the project free of any overt Joyent influence. Joyent is a big Node user, and a lot of really smart people, so I do take it seriously if they have something to say. Especially considering that most of the time when Joyent engineers have a problem with Node, it's related to other users hosted on their platform (Walmart, Voxer, etc.)
Given enough effort, you can do any 'X' with any 'Y'. The point is the design, future design, etc. all support that way and make it easy and robust out of the box.
I use Windows 8 in my two PCs because it's fast, I like the UI and I'm in love with Office.

Server runs OpenSUSE.
Why would the government believe a claim that Lavabit could not provide them with plaintexts? Hushmail did it, and Lavabit's architecture is not all that different. At best Lavabit could claim that the user had not logged in and thus they were unable to capture the user's password.
Is there no one who can offer suggestions on this.
Or did i not offer many details ?
Patch's grave is being dug at a slower rate now. It is still being dug though.
What do you like about 13.04? I have it on a machine here but I mostly do 3D animation work on it, and don't really interact much with the Ubuntu-ness.
I have Windows and Ubuntu on mine
yeah, I'm stuck on five:a.

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buried.

7S144E

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That position, 7S, 144E, appears to be in the Marianas Trench, just south of Papua New Guinea. "buried" contains similar enough letters to the previous answer, that I'm assuming it's related in some way, but I'm not getting anywhere. Need to step off for a few minutes and let things clear a bit.
can...not...wait
Any idea on 5a?
It gives you a pair of coordinates which point to Papua New Guinea (according to Gmaps), yet the source makes a Greenwich reference.
I was under the impression that FX gave showrunners more freedom, but a tighter budget.
Larry Ellison: The NSA's Snooping Is 'Essential' For U.S. Security
That's awesome! Thanks for sharing
Wrappers actually have their share of subtle problems, we've just gotten used to the jQuery way of coping. Hmm, i sense another blog post coming... :)

At root, the issue is that without widely available Proxy implementations (wildcard property intercept), wrappers must duplicate the entire underlying (and widely varying) API of the wrapped elements. You could do this by slavishly copying the DOM or by creating an entirely separate API (like jQuery).

Back when the DOM was a mess (3-4 years ago), the wrapper was the only sane approach (witness jQuery crushing Prototype). I'd argue things have changed:
https://github.com/nbubna/mind-hacking/blob/gh-pages/extendi...

Returning a list for all operations is returning a wrapper, not the path i'm on. I would never argue that variable return types is ideal, but i currently prefer its problems to the problem introduced by using a wrapper API. :)
One thing I should add is that Nixon wasn't "a criminal" by the standards to which Presidents were held to going back to at least FDR.

If you can't see the danger of changing the rules of the game and throwing people into jail based on that....
International Backup Awareness Day is today.

http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2009/12/international-backu...
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I don't think this really means anything. If you track the indoor temperature and outdoor temperature at my apartment, they correlate. But it's because I come home as it's getting cool and turn on the AC, and I leave for work before it gets too hot out. So the shape of the graph looks the same, but the relationship is that I come home from work at the same time of day when the sun sets, not that the outdoor temperature affects the indoor temperature. (Weekends are proof, it's cold all day indoors then :)
Ask HN: Options to work in the US if you're a foreigner
What are the options available to someone who's not a US Citizen or Greencard holder, to work in the US?

I'm a graduate of a fairly highly-ranked U.S. university, but left after graduation. (Could not do OPT for certain reasons.) I have B.S. in CS.

What options do I (and other non-US persons in general) have to migrate and legally work in the US?

I'm doing consulting remotely at the moment, but would really like to come back.

I know there's the H-1B, but it's got a stupid limit of 65k which ends up mostly being used by a bunch of IT bodyshops; and to top it off, it's only available starting October next year. (Too long a wait for me.)

Are there any other visas / means by which a skilled worker (such as myself) could work in the US?
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"You really think high-level criminals don't properly encrypt their conversations?"

Funny story about that:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/19/mafia_don_clueless_c...
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit, with an Ubuntu 12.04 64-bit guest running inside VMWare Workstation. It's usually always on, and I use the VM heavily for dev.
I'd wager you had a great deal of mental capital that you're not taking into account.
I see no option for GNU/Linux.
OS X, Widows 8, Ubuntu Server, Chrome OS, Android in no particular order
It's roughly as small of a perturbation to the radiation field as, say, a tinfoil hat.
The plan uses an air bearing partly because an air bearing is exceptionally stiff. It's not like a hovercraft, with all that ability to squoosh up and down. So the unsprung weight might be the weight of the entire vehicle.

edit: though, mind you, the whole capsule also has mechanical suspension
When creating a poll like this, it would be useful to specify the question in a bit more detail. Do you mean what is your primary OS or do you mean responders to upvote every OS that they use even only rarely?

I use OS X and Fedora at home and Ubuntu, RedHat, AIX, Solaris and Windows at work, so I upvoted every option except for BSD (and, strictly speaking, OS X falls under BSD too).
Ubuntu at home and for personal projects and OSX at work. When you're at work it's easier to just go with what the majority of the team already uses.
I use elementary OS (Ubuntu-based distro) on my laptop and Windows 8.1 on my desktop.
Win 8 over Hackintosh?
Am I the only one looking at the $80 price for an unlocked smartphone and going ZOMGWTFBBQ? I mean, what's the hitch?
> I don't see what is the big deal with this, and why would you even publish a paper on it.

The fact that we suddenly have a boatload of free weather data? Nobody installed any weather stations - this is information fallout being put to good use. That's pretty awesome.

> This is a well-known fact to all people working in semiconductor industry and we simulate things against temp. all the time.

Simulating how an electronic circuit works under different temperatures is one ting, but do you do actual measurements to see what factor the ambient temperature has on the measured temperature of a phone battery? How about having the phone touch a 37 degrees centigrade heat bath on one side (in other words: a human body) and ambient air on the other? Before this paper, could you have made any reliable prediction on how big an influence ambient temperatures were on the sensors in the battery?

Knowing how much of that temperature is body heat, ambient heat and heat produced by the phone/battery requires analysing the data - for all we know the ambient temperature could have been completely insignificant compared to body heat and heat produced by the phone. Maybe you could model it and predict it, but even then the proof of the pudding is in the eating.

You and others here can complain that it's no surprise that thermometers measure temperature, but actually analyzing the data, discovering that ambient temperature is a significant factor, and figuring out the Pearson coefficient required to put it to use is a discovery, and certainly worth publishing about.
A Look Inside Our 210TB 2012 Web Corpus
Sorry, you are the one doing the distraction. Do read again what I've already written here, I'm leaving this discussion.
Interesting, Australia gets breaking bad on cable the same time as US. Although there is always going to be a lot of piracy because you are looking at $100+ a month to get cable and the showtime/movies group of channels which show it.
For anyone else interested, the full paper is available here:

http://conferences.sigcomm.org/sigcomm/2013/papers/sigcomm/p...
This is interesting. Wonder if the staffer that was fired might take legal recourse for reputaional damage or defamation. Armstrong certainly lacked class on the day. The legal posturing in this letter is pretty obvious if one reads between the lines.
also harnessing the power from sound: http://www.instructables.com/id/Harnessing-sound-power/

When lose an item in house, shout loudly and it will appear on radar ;)
sorry.. i couldn't let this go.. how is that not a huge caveat? your advocating and advertising for something that doesn't exist, and that does its existing job worse than other options.. ie a better alternative openstack client lib in go that focuses on openstack. i have huge amount of respect for you from pycon, and maybe this is your first rackspace advocacy... but sigh, all this is a call for developers afaics to work on a vaporware project afaics (going by the standard you set of multicloud). you haven't addressed my example of net security groups and how their elegantly solved by a generic lcd library.. because the fact is rackspace has no net security options in their cloud api, and really its incredibly cloud specific, i'm not talking about passing an a k/v for instance creation but actually configuring security groups (ports, etc), which is pretty basic stuff for a cloud provider.

"I hope users and consumers will keep us honest - as we said in the post, our interest is pretty much no lock-in on an API level (hence: openstack) and no lock-in on the code level."

any api is a lock-in, openstack just happens to be opensource in implementation, but per google v. oracle, there doesn't seem to be any qualms in other opensource impls using the amazon apis (cloudstack, eucalyptus) to deliver what customers want without lock-in.
On main laptop: OS X 10.6.8 with VMWare Windows XP and VMWare Ubuntu 12.04

On personal server: Ubuntu 12.04

On phone: Android 4.1.2
Windows 8 for entertainment, With Ubuntu in VM for development.
FBI repeatedly suggested that Martin Luther King kill himself. I think it's a little melodramatic for this case, but it wouldn't be the first time the DoJ has employed that tactic to protect the status quo against an activist.
To be fair, I think most would-be terrorists are not terribly sophisticated. If they were very sophisticated we'd be seeing a lot more successful attacks against targets abroad. The current terrorist threat is overhyped to a large degree in my unprofessional opinion. I mean, the head of Al Qaeda was holed up in a small compound watching porn, he didn't even have any sort of backup plan for when SpecOps eventually came to his doorstep.

High-level criminals otoh are most certainly savvy enough to not communicate important information through unencrypted channels.
OS X for the main development, on a relatively venerable 17" 2009 MBP, so that's the single upvote I offered.

But, the code's deliberately platform agnostic, and I do secondarily maintain a Windows version, under Parallels, for the DirectShow filter build. I'll likely bring it to Ubuntu later as well, for render farm deployment.
You missed sparrow / temple. Because "other" doesn't really cover it.
There's a Confucius saying in here somewhere.
The Greenwich reference is just to let you know that you're dealing with a latitude and longitude.
What kind of havoc does backscatter/reflection wreak on normal tv/radio signals? Do I want this noise in my house?
The op implies that the comment drives traffic to the website (by generating discussion I suppose), and at the same time, somehow hurts the website by reproducing its content.
IPhone 5 is the biggest star in Katy Perry’s video Roar
A bit picky about my Linux desktop experience. I check in with Ubuntu at every .10 release to see if it yet passes my picky standards. It was getting much, much closer in 2012. I'm actually looking forward to this year's.
> Can't I go to the University of Central Oklahoma registrar's office and get the full names of thousands and thousands of people who went there, as well as what states they're from?

I don't know about the University of Central Oklahoma, but this would be explicitly prohibited at the University of Waterloo.

There's a specific policy that covers access to student information: https://uwaterloo.ca/secretariat/policies-procedures-guideli...

Granted, you could figure these things out by scraping students' public Facebook profiles, but I think that says more about Facebook than it does about whether {full name, alta mater} is PII.
Technology is just a tool, for the purpose of solving end-user's problems.

Spoiler: Most software you create wont be around in 10 years: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zut2NLMVL_k&feature=youtu.be

What matters is the value it delivers in the meantime, which is ultimately the end-user result - not how you got there.
Riseup and Government FAQ
>Will I go over if I watch this movie? How much will my bill be this month? //

Wouldn't that be solved with a simple ticker giving you the current spend. This way you wouldn't have "overage" charges that suddenly leap up, your spend would match usage, watch one more movie and it will cost you a small fraction extra to what it cost last month when you watched 23 movies, say.

Not all utilities are measured, domestic water is often unmetered FWIW.
The issue is that this is easily enough information to easily perform social engineering attacks against a bank or Facebook or Google.
No. Recruiters seem to try to fit any candidate into roles they are not appropriate for.

If it was a programming challenge I'd rather be approached by the company doing the hiring.
Hushmail is in Canada, I have no idea what the rules surrounding cooperating with the government are there.

In the US when it comes to subpoenas from civil or criminal courts, you only need to produce "books, papers, documents, data, or other objects" in your possession. The passwords were not in Lavabit's possession at the time it received the subpoena. Furthermore, subpoenas can be quashed if they are " unreasonable or oppressive" (see e.g. FRCrimP 17c). Asking a witness to write custom code in order to capture a user's password is a textbook example of an unreasonable request.

The rules for national security requests on the other hand are entirely different. 50 USC 1805(c)(2) requires the recipient of an electronic surveillance order to:

"(B) that, upon the request of the applicant, a specified communication or other common carrier, landlord, custodian, or other specified person, or in circumstances where the Court finds, based upon specific facts provided in the application, that the actions of the target of the application may have the effect of thwarting the identification of a specified person, such other persons, furnish the applicant forthwith all information, facilities, or technical assistance necessary to accomplish the electronic surveillance in such a manner as will protect its secrecy and produce a minimum of interference with the services that such carrier, landlord, custodian, or other person is providing that target of electronic surveillance;"
In that case he could have just not defended himself.
Ahahaha no. I live in Oakland, you're quite wrong. On the upside I do like that I can walk a short distance to catch a train that will take me to LA :)
Have they been doing a good job at tracking down phishing and other attacks from overseas thanks to all of their email monitoring? That would seem a close analogy.
A proposal for improving the SVG DOM
Father who feels guilty while checking his email is much worse that father who feels happy while checking his emails.

1000 years ago the father would watch for an animal to hunt to bring home the tasty food and when this happened - the while family was happy. And father's hunting and fighting times away from his little children was to the benefits and for the happy growth of his family.

Your communication tool today is what your bow was 1000 years ago. You are doing your best.

Feeling guilty benefits your competitors and enemies of your family. Don't do that to your family. Do what you good at and let your children learn from you how mix the joys of creating expressions with the love.

Your happiness and contentment is way more important for little child to feel than absence or presence of your mobile devices or screens.

Do whatever makes you feel in balance and happy and let your child grow surrounded with your love and happiness.
I've personally never had issues with the callback pattern. To the contrary, it forces me to have well-organized code, which is a ++.
I also want to add that your blog post exposes more information than OutsideLOAF does, Bryan Kennedy, Co-Founder of San Francisco-based Sincerely.
Upvoted Mac OS X but really there should be iOS on there too (and Android for good measure) since I'm on there doing stuff (and sometimes it's real work!) almost as much as I am OS X!
In the US, FERPA covers private information like grades and schedules, but biographical information and the fact that you attended is public record unless you submit a specific form.
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Giant Fatberg Found Under London Has Surprising Use
Ask HN: How to backup a VPS
So I'm doing some projects which aren't beefy enough to live on AWS or Heroku, but do need some backups.

What do the HN community use when you want to regularly backup the data on a VPS? Just another VPS in another location, or some sort of special backup plan offered by a provider? Just curious to see what most people do.
You are wrong.

For one thing, Ladar is the only person at Lavabit with access to the servers or hosting environment. Absolutely no one could access the plain text version of anything (password or email contents) without the password to an account, because all data for a specific user is encrypted using a key that is stored as an encrypted string in the database, without the account password the key cannot be decrypted.

Now, it would be possible for him to have installed software to intercept the password for a specific user when they authenticate, I have no idea if he ever had to do that. I do know that he's obligated by law to comply with court orders, you can't just refuse to cooperate if federal officials give you a warrant, if you don't cooperate they will throw you in jail until you change your mind. Those rules apply to every American company, not just Lavabit.
In general you'll want to find the job first and then have them on board for getting you through immigration. There are numerous other options: O-1 ("Individuals with Extraordinary Ability or Achievement") is common in our industry. Immigration attorneys practicing in Silicon Valley are quite familiar indeed with how to match up the realities of the tech industry with the state machine set up by Congress to grant O-1 visas.

Also ask about EB-1 and EB-2.

[Edit: I am not an immigration attorney, and have more practical experience with Japan's immigration bureaucracy than with the US', but I have some aging professional experience with helping engineers and assorted technologists navigate the process because it was once very relevant to my day job.]
Update: Outside Lands has taken the site down and will be fixing the issues. Apparently the information was added to the public site unintentionally.
Confirmation? PJ Media is a horrible news source, editorial standards poorer than Glenn Beck's "The Blaze." And this wasn't even reporting, it was an opinion piece in the blogs section.

I'm all for piling on the malefactors in the Aaron Swartz case, but I wouldn't bet a nickle on anything that comes out of PJ Media.
Why did BlackBerry crumble?
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6 Months Of Goal Setting
Read it aloud. You'll catch typos (save homophones), awkward phrasing, sentences that are long and confusing, and more.
That's like asking why gay people chose to be gay. Or me asking why you chose to be straight.

The feminist mindset is that biological sex, gender, and sexuality do not depend on each other.

edit: To clarify you do not choose the gender you identify as, but you can choose the gender you present as.
My favourite stupid auto-sanitisation is "consbreastutional"
This is a very interesting development. Kudos to the UW folks for this great piece of research.

Few questions :-

- Would there be a problem if the devices were inside an enclosed/shielded area (I assume there would be) ?

- Isn't the data rate dependent on the kind of ambient wavelengths available ?
Techcrunch: "In the memo obtained from a tipster"

Tim Armstrong: "On Friday I acted too quickly and I learned a tremendous lesson and I wanted you to hear that directly from me."

First Armstrong doesn't detail exactly what the lesson he learned was (so you know others that he is sending the memo to can learn from it).

Second if you know that the memo is going to be "leaked" why not just provide the memo as a press release so it doesn't appear that the "tipster" has done anything wrong? (If in fact it was a tipster).

Then you can just send the employees the press release by email. And then they have a more definitive idea that leaking info is wrong because you are drawing a distinction between public and private info.

This more or less adds questions to whether it is possible to hold a private meeting and not have things go public (after all someone recorded the meeting which is what added so much color to the situation (hearing it directly is worth a thousand words, not as good as a video but the next best thing).

Add:

And that in a large meeting the assumption is that anything and everything that you say will get out there.

Which it will because it's a trivial to have a hidden camera record everything. And if the meeting is large enough the chance of someone doing that would be great.
FWIW that page crashed my browser, FF22 on Kubuntu.
That's a good point. I don't have one, but I do wear a Nike Fuel Band, which I like a lot. My complaint, and we've seen this on Kickstarter, is that anyone can make one of these things.
If you think mafia bosses are high-level criminals, I have news for you. Wall st.
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