skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What you forget are the rape cases that are not reported in the media or do not get the same attention in the international press - The rape of poor dalit(lower caste) women by upper caste men. In some cases its used as a tool for handing out punishment to the unfortunate girl's husband, brother or father.

India's middle class or upper class cannot be so easily exonerated. There are equally horrific stories of women being exploited by well connected and well educated individuals. Please look at [1] and [2]

A slight detour and some anecdotal evidence. I was once at a party in the Film Institute of India, Pune. Pune is one of the more metropolitan cities in India and the environment and the outlook inside FTII is more progressive than the rest of India or so you would think. A guy kept coming to my female Caucasian friends and offered them drugs. We ignored him for a while and now hurt by this he started calling all white women as whores who destroy the sanctity of the college and the nation. The worst part was the group of people around him who supported him.

The problem is at a much deeper level and its present in all stratas of our society.

[1]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suryanelli_rape_case
[2]http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?205638
I think the DCPU16-stuff can be reused in other games
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Embarrassment is a very relative thing - it looks to me like the majority of comments on this HN post are saying the guy was in the wrong for breaking the TOS and I have to say I agree. Facebook haven't been embarrassed, they've just upheld a policy which says that they won't pay anyone who doesn't play by the rules. Quite fair, in my opinion.
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I've been using this port without issue: https://github.com/jlong/sass-twitter-bootstrap/tree/3.0.0-w...
Conversely, they might be setting the opposite precendent, that they might ignore your intial email if you don't speak perfectly, and if they ignore your initial email, even hacking Zuck's account won't get you any offical recognition.

The bad precendent is that if you're not a great english speaker, you might as well sell your bug on the black market. This is not good for facebook.
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Could the controversial head scarf (or even the full on attire) be the only way women can preemptively protect themselves in such a "raw" environment?
"Threatened?" If you read the comments in the original HN story, you'll see he made good on his threats and kept reposting bad reviews after they were taken down. He was pretty vindictive about it.
Not necessarily IOS 7 [though maybe it popularized it]. There's a number of android apps (firefox, reddit is fun) that do the same thing and I don't like it there either. I'd prefer some kind of larger more noticeable way for me to see that it's loading, and that it's actually doing something. Sometimes if loading is slow it's easy to not notice these 1 pixel bars changing.
It is really amazing. Collectively, I have spent over two years in China, and have never been particularly cautious about what sort of situations I work my way into. Never once have I felt threatened or unsafe. It is what I admire most about the country.
If you are looking for SASS and Rails, this port works great. https://github.com/thomas-mcdonald/bootstrap-sass
Get it from a fast CDN http://www.jsdelivr.com/#!bootstrap
Clearly, any website the size of FB and its huge resources, needs to have an option for bug submitters to submit bugs in their NATIVE language.

I bet if the submitter had written the bug report in Arabic, and FB had a professional translator on their security team (with some technical background), things might have been very different and we may not even be having this discussion.
> Having the design flat encourages you to build on it or theme it to your OWN style so all of the sites using Bootstrap don't end up looking the same

I don't want to build on it. My customers don't care that it looks like other sites, they just want something that looks professional and is easy to use, something which Bootstrap 2 does way better than I could do alone, and for which I am eternally grateful.

My customers range from a little to really non technical, so I think that "making them think" about what might be a button and what might be a label is a regression.

So if I want to upgrade, it's not just "encouragement" to customize, it's a necessity, and I consider it added work since I did not have to do it with the previous version of Bootstrap.

Hopefully, the theme mentioned in the article will suit my needs.

> With that said, well done everyone that helped on the project! Great work! :)

I can agree with that! I am very thankful for Bootstrap.
Apple created their own brand stores, so why didn't Oakley? This would have prevented them from being so dependent on a third party...
Sounds plausible to get more deals, all those sales persons
are only accounted for deals per day/week/month. And if you are not
performing as needed you can look for another job elsewhere.[1]

Getting payed minimum wage + extra on deal volume (which is not that high anymore) you encourage people to use shady moves like this.

[1] http://www.theatlanticwire.com/technology/2012/08/working-gr...
Are you implying education has little impact on how a person perceives the world around him/her?

Can we deny that, all rapes that were reported in media were done by people from lower rung of our society? Sure for every poor criminal there is a educated bureaucrat taking bribe and doing as he pleases. But we are specifically talking about street harassment and crime against women here, which is fixable by educating people.
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I believe the point of the black box is to not be dependent on others for your happiness. Needing external validation to feel good about yourself is a serious mental issue. But, to you, it shouldn't really matter what I think ;)
It is one thing to point out the benefits of certain ideas that differ from the status quo, but being dogmatic and rude will gain you no points.
I've been working with the release candidates for a while for my Shopify-based Bootstrap theme (http://bootstrapforshopify.com/), and while it's been a bit of a tough ride sometimes (with pretty significant changes from release to release), I'm really impressed with what v3 brings to the table.

Hopefully, the way the new styles are laid out will encourage more people to treat Bootstrap as a starting point rather than the end game for layout and styling (although it's a pretty good starting point in of itself).

Edit: And, of course, massive thanks to Mark and Jacob (plus the ever-increasing community) for all of the work they've put in over the last two years :).
Again, that's the whole point. He wasn't able to provide them with what they wanted, and doing so meant that he either had to allow them to intercept messages (or passwords) on Lavabit's application servers, which is the only place they could be intercepted. Doing so would require either impersonating their servers through a MitM or code changes on their server.

I do acknowledge in the article that this could simple be an overhyped reaction to placing a black box on his network, but the statements Levison made seem to indicate otherwise. And hey I could be wrong about this whole thing, it still is largely speculation based on circumstantial evidence.
Once again, with feeling:

Even if Facebook wanted to ignore the terms of their bug bounty to pay this person, they probably can't. Bug bounties are legally fraught as it stands. Like every bug bounty, Facebook's is clear: if you use a real account, you must have the consent of the accountholder. That term isn't just there to make the Facebook security team's job easier; they also can't officially condone people compromising random user accounts.

Facebook also operates in a web of contractual and regulatory concerns, including California's breach notification laws. Exploitation of security vulnerabilities on Facebook's public properties outside of the terms of their bug bounty might be legally more akin to attacks than to pro-bono testing. Further, Facebook obviously needs the ability to reliably enforce their terms, lest they provide attackers with ammunition in a court case if they, for instance, Pastebin large amounts of Facebook user data. "Oh, I was just participating in the bug bounty program; I certainly wasn't setting out to sell $CELEBRITY's data to a tabloid."

Jim Denaro is an attorney specializing in stuff on this. We talked to him on Twitter this weekend when the story broke, and he said he would have advised against paying the bounty here too. Maybe we can get him to write a blog post.

I don't know how much "outrage" this has actually generated in the security community (maybe you can find links). The security people I've talked to think what happened makes perfect sense. Facebook didn't freak out, the acknowledged the bug report (once they understood it) and fixed the bug. They're just not paying a reward, because the bugfinder violated what is perhaps the most important term in the bug bounty.

One more thing: people on HN have a lot of strong opinions about Facebook, and while I don't share many of them, I understand and respect them. Understand though that the people working on Facebook's security are real and very smart and by and large not the least bit interested in screwing other bugfinders out of 0.00000000001% of Facebook's operating capital.
All the upvotes in the world for this:

>There's a culture supporting this (which is not to say that Indians as a people do) and it needs to be dragged into the light of day and shot.
I haven't read the source for the site but I would guess that it is an implementation artifact. You don't get to vote on your own comments, so the arrows need to go away, the arrows go away after you vote, so why not make it an automatic self vote? You thought it measured up to be worth posting so you must think it worth an upvote right?
Again, no counterargument. You're only proving me right.
>If I'm not mistaken you admit that the horse you try to imagine gets rebuilt from bits and pieces that are stitched together. In my opinion foundation of that construct is that internal abstract representation of a horse concept.

The way I imagine this works is that our sensory input fires some particular set of neurons which accounts for our sensory experience of the horse. When we recall a mental image of a particular horse, our brain attempts to recreate as best it can the neural firing pattern from the actual sensory input. Of course, this pattern gets distorted as we do not remember specific images as a whole (unless one has a photographic memory), but pieces of images that represent certain abstractions over portions of a subject. These patterns are recreated by firing certain "bootstrap" neurons (memories units) that downstream cause the recreated pattern.

Expanding on this further, I can imagine our image-storage system being something like a many-dimensional quadtree, except instead of just spacial dimensions it also extracts colors, shapes, patterns, textures, etc. So different meaningful concepts are stored in different layers of the neural network, and some approximation to the original can be recreated on demand. This can certainly be considered an abstract representation, yet it is still tied to and semantically similar to a raw 2d mapping of the image. The difference is mainly storage efficiency due to compressing similar concepts learned from our experiences.
If I had a depression, the cause would probably be Snowden's revelations and all that goes with it.
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Thanks for the inspiration. My son will love the "player's vision" concept.
Git tip: Beautiful colored and readable output 
Git is a powerful tool that is very user friendly when used from the Command Line Interface (CLI). There is no need to add Graphical User Interface (GUI) tools to simplify or visualize the output. What can help to make the CLI output more usable is to enable colors and to allow for some command abbreviations (aliases).
I'll put them on my "to be checked out" list.
I completely understand what you are saying, and they have already solved your problem. You can still easily grab the V2 theme to lay on top of V3 to generate all those pre-done styles. The beauty is that it's no longer forced in V3 for people that do want to build up, like it was in V2. It's a win-win! ;)

As tsurantino said in another comment, see here: http://getbootstrap.com/examples/theme/
Sure, the guy's bug report was terrible. However, the blame is squarely on FB. It's the security team's job to follow up, and to ask for more information if they don't have all the details.

Contrast this with how Google responded when someone posted a Youtube video showing a Chrome exploit - they guessed that it was a Flash-based vector, collected millions of sample files and fuzzed for days to eventually discover the bug - based on a YouTube video that they could have also discarded as 'not a bug' based on lack of evidence.
Well, that's not a very clear statement of how it works. "Depth of field" is a technical term in photography, describing the amount of an image that is in focus, relative to the out-of-focus areas in front of or behind. This is a function of the aperture (F-stop) of the lens, and the ratio of focal length to sensor size (which also controls perspective, or how wide the angle of view is).

The reason this is important is because out-of-focus areas are a very important visual cue. It isolates the subject of a shot from its surroundings. It is even more important in motion pictures than still photography, where changes in focus are used to move the subject from one person to another in a single shot (watch a conversation in a movie that's shot from one camera for an example). There's even a job, "focus puller", that you'll see in movie credits for the person who adjusts the focus on very large cameras.

Depth of field is strongly correlated to the size of the sensor in digital cameras (and also to lenses). Other inexpensive HD cameras use small sensors, which solve a lot of expensive and difficult technical problems, but at a cost of not being able to do a shallow depth of field (you see the same problem in cell phones and cheap small digital cameras). The big win of Red was to use a full-sized sensor, allowing DoF behavior on par with consumer DSLR cameras. Moreover, the Red cameras had interchangeable lens mounts that could use superb, widely available Canon and Nikon DSLR lenses. This greatly reduced the end user cost.

So basically, unlike cheaper cameras, a Red camera could shoot things that looked like real movies, due to shallow DoF and manual focus control. And it could do so inexpensively. Very disruptive.
If he had competing offers, he was in a good negotiating position. I can understand believing in a great company and drinking the kool-aid, but if you have competing offers and a company explicitly states, "Salary and equity are non-negotiable" - that's a huge red flag.

You should be allowed to negotiate as a savvy prospective employee. With very few exceptions, you don't want to put yourself in an environment where terms are dictated to you rather than opened on a floor with you for your input. Even if you fail miserably at the negotiation, at least you had an opportunity.

Second to this - unless you're literally at-will employee, this is grounds for liability. The author was explicitly told, "You didn't do anything wrong, we're just getting rid of you because you don't fit." IANAL, so I won't harp on this as I don't know the particulars, but I'm fairly sure this is a case most lawyers wouldn't shy away from if everything is to be taken at face-value here (anyone with a law degree can correct me if I'm wrong).

In any case...I'm glad the author received validation of his abilities, even if it was nearly a year later. Maybe his former boss will grow a backbone and rehire him for something awesome. At least he didn't burn a bridge.
I agree, it was an abuse of law. But stopping and detaining him temporarily seems justifiable, especially as he is not a journalist, doesn't enjoy any protections other than the ones any normal travellers get and was carrying some of the leaked NSA docs.

In that light using the terrorism law and holding him for 9 hours was a brain dead move as well.
Spiri - Autonomous Quadcopter on Kickstarter - Innovation or Scam?
I stumbled upon this browsing kickstarter, and I was pretty excited, and then I read this techcrunch article with a kind of - weird comment - and - anyway I just wonder if HN has any strong opinions on this particular company / product idea:

Kickstarter link:
http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/914887915/spiri

Techcrunch article with nasty comment:
http://techcrunch.com/2013/08/14/spiri-kickstarter/
Cached link via HNPremii for anyone else who is getting the site down.

http://hn.premii.com/#/article/6239342
Traditionally, they can point guns at the guys running the servers and tell them what to do (Liberty Reserve)

Not so easy with Bitcoin
Medication ??and/or psychological therapy??
mostly people riding after me on motorcycles, and pretending to ask a question and then turning the conversation elsewhere. It only happened a few times, but I also only went running a few times.
Well, if you dont want to customize you may well just use one of the themes that will soon spring up.
Maybe these will help http://bootswatch.com/
Seriously, no. I don't care what the rationale is, compare these two pages:

http://getbootstrap.com/
http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/

The first is infinitely more confusing to the eye. There's no heirarchy; I don't know where to look. The second is clean while still giving me a sense of where I need to go to accomplish what I'd like to accomplish.
> Which hasn't happened in the EU.

As far as you know.
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Well, thats a turn out for the books.

I've dealt with RED professionally on a few levels. Firstly I came across RED footage shortly after the cameras were released to film makers. Back then to transcode the output from the camera (jpeg2000 with some meta data) to something useful required a beefy mac pro, some free software and lots and lots of time (3-10FPS if you were lucky). Either way, it was expensive. (we used to charge £500 every ten minutes of red footage transcoded)

This made me sad, especially as there was no SDK for linux to allow us to use the render farm to transcode it. You could spend £5000 on an "accelerator card" however, its £5k and prone to breaking. The annoying thing was the despite the hype the camera really wasn't all that. Yes it was 4k, but it was noisy, had rolling shutter and colours were duller than dish water. It took the Foundry "reverse engineering" the codec to bring RED to linux natively

35mm film was still far better in terms of image quality(assuming decent DoP and film lab). Yet the hype still built. (Early RED films were dark and broody for a reason....)

The next generation of camera was alright, still expensive to hire/buy/use. Yes the sensor unit is relatively cheap, but you still needed to buy lenses, adapters, storage medium, handles(£250 for the cheapest handle), focus gears, etc. You then have to factor in the cost of post production. It was at the time expensive to shoot RED. On a par with film. It took at least two generations of RED cameras, and a lots of third party dev hours to make RED reasonable to use.

Nowadays RED decoding is fairly trivial to do, and the modern sensors are fairly good, assuming you down res from the 5k to avoid sensor noise.

One thing to note is this, RED fans are utterly fanatical. They will swear that anything RED is cheaper, better, faster, messianic compared to the competition. They are also prone to pirating software.

In the annals of cinema, there will be many inches devoted to RED. Evangilising its reforming power. However the camera that really stood out is the canon 5Dmk2. It was cheaper (genuinely throwaway in cinema terms) good enough quality to get by, and has cheap high quality lenses.

In short, RED camera, its alright for cinema, pain in the arse for post. REDuser.net and the surrounding noise is worse than angry 4chan.

The people at RED however are lovely, its just some noisy users that are obnoxious
Both _Attack of the Clones_ and _Revenge of the Sith_ were projected digitally as well as on film. And yes, if you looked closely at some points you could see the pixels on the projection. (Although _Attack of the Clones_ was also one of the first movies shown in IMAX via process of taking a 35mm film print to IMAX film[0]. So with _Attack_, instead, they upconverted a 2K master that was derived from 1080p source to IMAX film stock (as far as I know). Yes, it had a lot of weird smoothing artifacts when seen projected on an IMAX screen.)

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_IMAX_DMR_films
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Yeah, it's probably good enough, although it still seems kind of flat-ish:

http://getbootstrap.com/2.3.2/base-css.html#buttons compared to http://getbootstrap.com/examples/theme/

It was kind of them to make the extra effort though, for those of us who are happier with the older look and feel. Just a bit more like actual buttons, and it'd be perfect.
Honestly this is the biggest point in Bootstrap 3 :

> box-sizing: border-box

I never understood why they didn't use it.
The big question: did he end up getting coffee with his former boss?
What about have users register their own api key and let them insert that into your application?
This is also in Chrome for mobile.

I wouldn't call it a bad experience nor subtle however - at least not on mobile devices; I noticed the progress bar the first time I used the app and it never gets in the way.
I agree with most of what you say. There's just one point I want add.

I have been to India and the US multiple times. If I judged the US, just based on my experiences living in downtown Detroit or Newark I would never visit the US ever again. Just thinking about the things I experienced gives me the shivers.
Then can regulate some of the end points, but they can't control the transactions themselves.
I second this and would add that some outtakes (called side swipes) are available on youtube[1] and a podcast. The Steven Soderbergh one is great[2]. Side by Side is a little dated, but it is an amazing and accessible show.

Red is an amazing camera, but they also had good ideas in how to deal with film makers.

1) http://bit.ly/19EQjie

2) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U00AEDLLzu4
"Yo Bootstrap, I'm really happy for you, I'll let you finish, but Foundation has one of the best frameworks of all time. One of the best frameworks of all time!" ;-)
That's not what "libertarian" means, either.

In the "policy" sense, he's been an aggressive opponent of most libertarian stances, aside from when Abu Ghraib and PRISM broke. In the "Political - as in Party" sense, I'm not aware he says much of anything about the Libertarian Party.
Agreed. The whole point of a client-side update mechanism is to do something better than a loading bar. And that thing should be (1) immediate and (2) particular to what the user did.