skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"You’ve activated Google Wallet on a new device" -- Google Wallet compromised?
Had two of these messages today, both times I've logged into the website and disabled all devices.

Called Google, they indicated they'd had a few calls about this, and are escalating things.

I have a Nexus 4 and a Nexus 7 (original).

Frustratingly, I cannot remove the credit cards on file for my Wallet account.
Do we know the user was the one who paid for the service? I understood only those had the stored e-mails encrypted. Otherwise, free users had only clear text, and the e-mails in transit which happened after the order were also in clear before they were encrypted, so Lavabit simply had to provide such, for those they weren't able to say "we can't."
Fishing in Colorado is one of the best things to do in the state..
Actually, be cautious of speaking to another employee directly about such concerns. While that may be a traditionally expected and lauded route, in today's HR world, it can actually be a no-no.

I ran into this once, some years ago. I spoke directly -- and very politely -- with a coworker about a behaviour that was bothering me. The next thing I knew, I was called into a 1:1 meeting and chastised for speaking directly with the employee on the topic instead of going through my management.

As long as I am writing, I'll also speak briefly to the topic of dealing with a psychopath. In my limited experience, their world ultimately revolves around them. If a project or activity benefits them (in their perception), you may get along on it and do ok on that specific task/topic. (Although look out, when the exit comes.)

Otherwise, where your interests and outcomes diverge, for them their own will always come first. Any apparent involvement to the contrary will reveal itself, sooner or later, to be a facade.

It goes beyond just a conscious choice. This is the way they are -- to the core. Once you realize this, it's easier to limit your involvement with them and avoid further entanglements.
For incentive stock options, at least, you can't make an 83(b) election.
Could Google Glass Track Your Emotional Response to Ads?
OS X with Ubuntu 12.04 on Virtual Box.
This would be awesome for home automation devices (sensors, actuators and stuff). It's a pain to have a battery for each little button and sensor.
Introducing WordPress.com Connect
Qualifies as the OS X answer.
I like Ansible, but I have to ask: Is $6M a lot for this sort of thing? It sounds like a lot to me for a GUI tool and "REST endpoint", whatever that means in this context. Is there enough of a market to return $6M x10 or whatever it takes to make the investment worthwhile?

p.s.: I know this post could sound like veiled contempt, but I really am just curious and a trifle perplexed.
wouldn't deploying this in big numbers work against the solution itself? you would have so much noise in the existing signals that the main signal, as well as the bounced signals, would be useless?

Also, can we just say this is a cat's whisker receiver[1] that instead of powering a speaker/headphone powers another transmitter?

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_radio
I wonder why they included the owner names for the drivers licenses, but not for the passports.
How IP Laws Strangle Humanity
People affected is my bigness metric, in this instance.

Nixon got outed for spying on a hotel room. The Executive Branch just got outed spying on pretty much everyone.

Watergate was also in a time when people were, by and large, a little more literate about the supposed balance that's supposed to exist between the government and the individual. I was a teenager during Watergate and recall more than one adult being outraged that the president would spy on anyone and shared their outrage.

Today, the almost absolute apathy about being spied on is as disturbing to me as the surveillance itself. It doesn't bode well for the American political future.
How does it work? what's the URL of the second step?
No-matter how you slice it, demanding a fair trial for yourself is never an abuse of your rights.
Finally, GitHub is as capable as PornHub when finding trending content.

Now we just have to wait for PornHub to introduce forking movies...
If they add commenting, it will be Hacker News.
Not can. Will.

And home based filters do the same, or work at the browser level.

So https doesn't help at all.
I am increasingly of the opinion that seeing "medium.com" in the URL is an excellent predictor of a mediocre lightweight article. (Just as seeing "physorg.com" in the URL is an excellent predictor of a recycled press release that's usually less informative than the original press release -- but I've beaten that drum enough already.)
This is the same principle as long-range UHF RFID tags. There is a communications protocol (Gen2) that deals with collision detection and multiple access to allow for hundreds (thousands?) of tags in the same space. Part of the protocol involves a tunable value for "the probability that an individual tag should respond."
Mattrick not wasting time at Zynga- CTO, COO, CPO (Chief People Officer) gone
'why should it?' because VBA feels horribly wrong to write, at the opposite of intuition. One can say that this is just my own opinion, but i would be curious to talk to somebody that thinks 'it's like VBA reads my mind!'. When I
I switched to coffeescript and less, I wasn't even unsatisfied with js and CSS. But, writing it, I always think they took productivity a step forward. If you can avoid writing things that are implicit, it lowers the probability of faulty code. it saves you time and pain. that is just smart.

You mention dlls, C#, PyPy ... those are big tools for writing whole projects. They implicitly request the use of an IDE for the compilation/linking steps. This is definitely not the solution i,'m looking for.
rot13("qbar")

I got that one just by guessing, I don't really get how this works.
from done.htm it looks like the next answer is ginger bread man but I can't figure out what the right url for it should be...
Announcing CouchDB Conf in Vancouver (November, 2013)
I wrote the post from an anecdotal POV, and just started digging into the research now. ;)

Here's what I've found so far:

- Oliver & Shor found that: "prompting for a code in the absence of having one had negative effects on fairness, satisfaction, and completion when compared to the control." http://www2.owen.vanderbilt.edu/mike.shor/research/promo/jpb...

- This study by Oliver & Swan (1989) found a big link between a consumer's perception of pricing fairness, and their overall satisfaction with a purchase. http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1251411?uid=3737720&ui...

- Xia, Monroe, & Cox found: "For price comparisons, the other-customer comparison has the greatest effect on perceived price unfairness because of the salience of such a comparison" http://bear.warrington.ufl.edu/weitz/mar7786/Articles/price%...

- This study by Google found that in a real-world setting, "more than 40% of shoppers have left a retail store without purchasing because they knew they left a coupon at home". http://www.google.com/think/research-studies/from-clipping-t...
I guess that's a part of the challenge. There's nothing on the page that indicates what the second step could be, I gave up.
Lavabit could almost never claim to be unable to provide plaintexts. In the worst case they would only need to wait for the user to log in again, or perhaps to just brute force the user's password (this does actually work, even for seemingly hard-to-guess passwords).

This is really not any different from Hushmail.
I have the same policy. Also test data should always be professional.

You don't want this happening to you: http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/bastard.asp
The irony here is that we didn't have to do anything to fix this bug (well, we did have to rename an image file that had a vulgar name!).

I don't think that it's the actual CSS, but rather the linked content which triggered the filters.
Pay attention to the number of underscores.
Just adding: you'd want to believe that an important feature of having more than one political party in the country is that they would compete and keep each other honest, holding each other to account when wrongdoing is exposed. Colluding to prevent the other team from ever facing justice for their crimes reveals that in fact, both parties are hopelessly corrupt and are conspiring to keep their corrupt enterprise operating. It's quite perverse to claim that this outcome is the best that we could hope for.
In the American justice system the judge is part of the judicial branch and the prosecutor is part of the executive branch.

Prosecutors have a huge amount of discretion in their jobs. They can choose if they press charges and if so what charges to press.

In this case, there are allegations that the prosecution abused its power by retaliating against free speech.

The prosecutor allegedly said something along the lines of: Aaron Swartz was foolish to exercise free speech because it then went "‘from a human one-on-one level to an institutional level.’ The lead prosecutor said that on the institutional level cases are harder to manage both internally and externally"

I presume by "one-on-one" prosecution, the prosecutor meant it was one prosecutor against Aaron Swartz. But by publicizing the case, it aroused the interest of the "institution" (i.e. the higher ups), who then decided to throw the book at Swartz.
Here's the listing on the US Patent & Trademark office. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4803:l2kvpj...
Same here. And I felt so smart after getting the first step!
It's a raw deal for the cable companies, too. They'd rather do an a la carte format, but the networks bundle themselves. It's like this, ABC, which owns ESPN (one of the most watched TV networks) says that if you want to carry ESPN, you have to carry ABC Family, and ESPN 3, etc.
Counting Bodies Killed By Actors
Have you ever counted the bodies that actors in action movie killed? Here's number for every one of them
Oh, come on -- don't cheat!

Though I admit I don't currently have the time to get far (I've gotten the first couple but have work to do tonight...). I love these puzzles, though!

I quite enjoyed going through the web penetration puzzle posted here a year or so ago -- where to access the next URL at each step involved a slightly trickier exploit (starting at just reading the HTML source, to modifying form fields, to tweaking cookies, etc.) -- anyone remember where this was?

It was educational (as well as fun), so at least I could excuse burning some time doing it.
The site came from the idea that I had to try & run every street in my city. There wasn't any way to track that, so I had to build it myself ... Since I was building it, I figured I might as well make it so that others could use it as well.

I've been adding more features (I think the shoe tracker might be my favorite so far), and I've got more in mind. Right now, it only connects to RunKeeper, but I do want to get other services (and manual gpx uploads) integrated as well.
Don't Miss Out on the Quora Distribution Gold Mine
It's just "man"
TV is ok. i bet most people here do not watch TV as adults. But using the computer and less passive screens, i bet everyone here is only here because they started using computers earlier than the average. So limiting those for a child seems foolish.
Atlas Shrugged $10,000 Essay Contest
That was Stripe's Capture the Flag: https://stripe-ctf.com/

Super fun!
Did you use bnd/bndtools? Without those I heartily agree: you'll have the steep learning curve of OSGi upfront, and the manual maintenance of metadata for the duration of your project. Using bnd/bndtools, it's only the initial learning curve that you have to worry about.
Second url: http://lowercase.billyjanitsch.com/done.htm

Thrid: http://lowercase.billyjanitsch.com/man.htm
There actually are good/safe ways to have LEO contacts, which can be helpful later. The time to do that is before they contact you in the context of an investigation -- helping your local PD learn about technology issues in general (both on the criminal side and on the public safety side -- things like communications in an emergency or how to help people report property crimes online).
Says the former CIA thug...
So, regarding the uniform fee schedule, what you mean is that any provider who accepts Medicare is required to have a uniform price list which is the same for all non-Medicare/Medicaid customers? As opposed to the nightmarish price variance given based on the clusterfuck of negotiated prices between consolidated provider organizations and insurance companies?

I like that idea. It would have never, ever made it past the medical provider lobby.

Did you see the Time magazine article "The Bitter Pill"? Fascinating, and the article actually provoked the CMS agency in the Federal Gov't to release their data on the "chargemaster" prices at various hospitals vs. the negotiated Medicare/Medicaid price (which is itself negotiated to ensure it covers a hospitals labor/materials for any given procedure).
SPOILER ALERT

It's "man.htm".

yccmitg__ == "you can't catch me I'm the gingerbread _man_".
Snowden had a far higher level of access than Manning.
I still, still, still don't understand why Node hasn't done in-line server-side Javascript.

Give it a snazzy name. Maybe.. "Livewire".

http://www.datacraft.com/livewire.html
Apple's Stock Gets Rocked By Carl Icahn
Noob coding blog
Is this on Github?
3 million people have equivalent security clearances as Bradley Manning or even Edward Snowden? I'm going to guess that's a little high.
> You certainly seem to be spending a lot of time sending your child the message that she's special and important, which is admirable.

Hmm. More like: [...] the message that she's special and important to him.

Considering his child's age the whole world still revolves around her anyway. Heck, she doesn't yet fully understand the world is a complete separate entity from her herself.
http://blog.fetchnotes.com/post/17155558880/what-happens-whe...
>which subsequently also resulted in one of the actors leaving the show

Which actor is this?
I'm not clear why you think they shouldn't be getting them. Depreciation is a normal deductible business expense. The suthor is clearly angry about this but hasn't really made his case for what he thinks is wrong. BART gets about 5% of the deal value up front in cash with no interest payable, which seems about right given historical interest rates. The alternative is floating a bond at interest which costs a lot more over the long term.
"The phrase "user information" is vague; it could include timestamps of all requests from a particular IP, for example."

Sure, but this warrant makes it pretty clear that the government was seeking message bodies, attachments, etc.:

http://ia600908.us.archive.org/9/items/gov.uscourts.mdd.2362...

"I heard somewhere that messages were stored with a key derived from the user's password; if true, then a warrant for johndoe@lavabit.com might not be fulfillable until after the next successful login from johndoe@."

...or to try brute forcing the password offline, which has a reasonable probability of working. Either way, it is not any different than the situation with Hushmail, and I would put both squarely in the "snake oil" category.
Years ago I played notpr0n, which is a puzzle very similar, in which you use links, urls and other web-based "locks" to advance to the next level.

http://notpron.org/notpron/

It is also interesting for non-geeks to learn about how the internet (and computers) work.
Nice! Reminds me of notpron[0] which entertained me for weeks.

[0] http://notpron.org/notpron/levelone.htm
Reminds me of zen-coding: https://code.google.com/p/zen-coding/

zen-coding is designed for use in a text editor, though, and is a quick way of generating a ton of properly-indented, well-formed HTML.
What kinds of things are they trying to do that you end up implementing in VBA for them? Do you ever have the feeling that some of these things ought to be doable in Excel without having to resort to VBA?

(I ask because I'm working on a product in this space.)
If I remember correctly, Aaron was convinced that the way things were going with the trial it would bankrupt his family by defending him. It's not too hard to imagine that "protecting" them involves taking yourself out of the equation there.
https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tptacek+javasc...
Ways to Manage Email So It Doesn't Manage You
SPOILER ALERT

four is adam
Adam is #7
Google: Gmail users ‘have no legitimate expectation of privacy’
Yes, that's exactly how you'd do it properly.

I'm with you on just commenting out or deleting things as you experiment up a new system config, but once you're using that config in production it's not as safe.
Renault Megane Review
We can definitely say that the Renault Megane is not a bad car at all. Unfortunately it is an ignored car if you compare it with the Volkswagen Gold, the Hyundai i30 or even with the Ford Focus, which are the main rivals that this car has. In order to win some battles, Renault ranged a facelift for their Megane which improved its aspect and made the car more attractive for buyers.
I’m more interested in trying something from those small Chinese brands than Huawei personally.
In cases where the return value type is actually unknowable, you can reliably use each() on the results. The whole point here is to use the DOM, not a wrapper. I'm open to pull requests if you have a way to have consistent interface and return types without a wrapper.
http://www.spybusters.com/Great_Seal_Bug.html
If you just need the selection/traversal/manipulation of jQuery then just make a custom jQuery build with that. If that is still "too big" then use the alternate (qSA minimally wrapped) selector engine instead of Sizzle. Instructions are in the README in the jQuery repo.

The advantage of this approach is that if you decide you need more of jQuery (for example to support a plugin) you can pull in what you need rather than reinvent and debug your own.
You don't push to ansible, you push from ansible to a server that has never heard of ansible.
AMC is also in a tough spot. They don't have the revenue to support the creative folks properly. The long lag between great content and an increase in the affiliate fee, makes the financials tricky. The death of DVD sales is not helping much either, as there is less to promise on the backend.

I think AMC gets $.35 per subscriber compared to ~$5 for ESPN. It is going take decades of hit shows before AMC is paid the $1-2 they actually deserve.
It's not the paper that's open source, it's the information...
Having run for state office three times in Minnesota, I can respond to some of this.

Politicians aren't all afraid to take risks, especially when they believe a particular policy they like will live on and be remembered.

Our former governor Jesse Ventura overcame incredible resistance and media scorn to get our first light rail line built. Almost all casual observers thought major health care reform was impossible in Washington. These things actually happened.

The key to passing a good policy is to reduce the risk. Politicians love projects where someone else was the guinea pig for them and/or someone else pays for studies and prototypes. Usually, they look for other units of government that have done something very similar with great success.

If I wanted to get Hyperloop to pass, I would first aim to table discussions on high speed rail for the proposed route. You would find allies among politicians who don't want to spend any money on transit, usually to appease highway contractors.

Secondly, I would immediately aim to seek R&D money for a high-profile demonstration project with plenty of funding for a study to project potential costs and impacts. This effort should even begin before the high speed rail bidding is tabled. I would leverage the demonstration results in the media and build a grassroots and lobbying organization around support for a Hyperloop.

Finally, I would seek advice from experts to craft a model bill with appropriate requirements for the bidding process.
It's easy to fall into the trap of trying to be a perfect parent, the one we had or wished we had. You can't be perfect, not even for your kids. In fact, if you try to be a perfect parent you'll probably become a bad one.

Kids are very resilient and understanding, and all they demand is to always be kept warm, fed and loved. All other things are less important, as long as they get some. This includes attention. It's a matter of balance, as you can't give them everything.

For example, it's better to provide a bit of high quality attention than a lot of low quality attention. If you are present physically but not mentally, your kids will notice. Better go, read the news or your email, and come back fresh. They won't care that much that you left, as long as you come back both physically and mentally.

No TV rules are great and all, but parents are human beings and sometimes need a break. It's better for the kids to have some TV and sane parents, than no TV but tired, moody and anxious parents. The TV rule is not an absolute one: some TV + present parents > no TV + nanny, for example. All this said, it's freaky to see your very active children veg in front of a screen; the least TV the better.

+1 on no cable. Cable is really bad for kids, as it gives you little control. If you need some break (you will) get a roku or apple TV and put some youtube videos of kiddie songs (google barefoot books, for example). At least this way you have some control on what they watch when you go to the restroom for that well deserved break.
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The 2012 Christmas special only aired in the UK this May if I remember rightly - they joked about it being ridiculously late.
How about using Macaw for drawing up the layout (kind of like we use Photoshop today) and take advantage of the more web relevant sides of it.

I haven't quite managed to work Photoshop into my workflow, but Macaw looks promising because it puts CSS into an UI.

So personally I consider using it for outputting my ideas and for showing different layouts, but then later coding it down myself.
I just don't see what SA brings besides the money. The industries quoted elsewhere are already existing. That isn't to say pockets of engineers might go there, but it just seems unlikely. How many uber-smart people target any of the cities listed?

My money would be on Abu Dhabi, but even then it's a longshot.
It's a no-brainer for anybody that's been in the event management space. The problem is you're so bogged down in running the events you don't have time to take a step back and innovate - which is probably true of most industries.

Great team and awesome product, excited to see where they go!
"Calling it your job don't make it right, Boss."
No wo(man) is an island.

Musk would have a hard time innovating if he had to build his own house, grow his own food, knit his own clothes, etc. etc...

We all rely on each other to provide our basic standards of living.

Without our basic needs being satisfied, we don't have a platform from which to focus on innovation.

Yes, innovation is great, but don't act like they are the entire backbone of humanity.
I remember, as a small child, building a powerless radio that vibrated the speaker using the strength of the radio transmission itself. Is ambient backscatter is the same thing, except across much wider frequencies ranges?
AOL CEO Tim Armstrong Apologizes For Firing Employee
Since for some reason that's what everyone else is doing in this thread ("I once read the Node documentation two years ago and am therefore in a position to make grand and sweeping judgments about it") I'm afraid I lumped you in with that crowd. Apologies.