skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I also submitted a bug to MEGA, haven't recieved a response yet.

The bug goes like this:
https://mega.co.nz/#!your_file_here!decryption_key
In Firefox when you have Javascript disabled via the option or using an add-on like NoScript it will redirect you to:
https://mega.co.nz/?_escaped_fragment_=your_file_here!decryp...

So MEGA will recieve the HTTP Request with $_GET['_escaped_fragment_'] containing your decryption key.
So if you send a file to a friend who happens to not have Javascript enabled for the website it will reveal the decryption key to MEGA.

To fix the issue all MEGA needs to do is add a double hash like:
https://mega.co.nz/##!your_file_here!decryption_key
this redirects to
https://mega.co.nz/#?_escaped_fragment_=your_file_here!decry...
keeping your decryption key safe even if they forget to use Javascript.
Feature set is similar to the (non-enclosed) Sabre Lite development platform for the Freescale iMX6 processors: http://www.element14.com/community/community/knode/single-bo...

What strikes me is that this is similar, but $130 (as opposed to $180 for the iMX6 Quad dev board).
Stop and read my grandparent post. 99,9999% of all Android devices you'll find outside of China - yes, but I was referring to phones in places like China.

Drastically underpowered like an iPhone4/4S? Obviously you're so hyped up by your anti-Apple venom that you failed to read my original post, so all is forgiven. No, think underpowered like an original iPhone - if that powerful.

My original point: there's tons of phones out there that aren't even remotely in the same category as the market that Apple and Samsung are selling to. Yet, those numbers keep getting included in the discussions about the Android install base. Samsung and other mid-to-high end Android makers are killing it; there's no need to be intellectually dishonest by including number that are irrelevant to their market.
I can appreciate where you're coming from with regards to the basic premise of the war on drugs. Like the old adage says: the road to hell is paved with good intentions.

The thing that tears me up about it is that some of these drugs (primarily meth and to a lesser degree heroin) completely obliterate lives and leave a huge cost to the general welfare of society. I don't think that we should be throwing users in jail instead of treatment, but a place where methamphetamine is legal and freely available is a scary place. I think there is a line between legalizing and decriminalizing and I'm not sure I'd want to see some drugs legalized. Weed, MDMA, I can see being legalized, but the hardcore stuff I'd be more comfortable simply decriminalizing usage.
I've just posted my onw HN-inspired forum:

https://github.com/skx/gathering/

This is written in Perl, and has some interesting features. But I was inspired by HN because it works well, in its minimal fashion.
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No, it doesn't work that way -- it's actually rather ingenious. It turns out that a cell phone system can determine a phone's position with reasonable accuracy by comparing its arrival times at different cell towers.

With two towers receiving a cell phone's signal, the phone can be located along a line. With three towers, it can be located as a point. It's all to do with the cell signal's arrival time, and it's sort of like radar in reverse.

No GPS needed. A GPS-equipped phone provides more accurate positions, but the passive cell-towers method is suitable for many applications.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3278/2867853394_7703d6c99f.jp...
Sure enough, I just got this email from a half-filled form. Seems they've had a few hours to fix it:

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Off topic but this has bugged me for years, Apache has the worst looking and most confusing docs/support material around (thankfully CouchDB eschew the Apache template). If two projects are equal and one is Apache I always choose the other just to save my eyes from bleeding.
Your explanation sounds a lot like what certain studies have been showing.

http://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2013/08/10/jennifer-silva-w...
Just chiming in to agree with this. Games that are difficult because of their UI usually aren't very fun.

Also, it seems important for the game to quantize input. I.e. right now you can occupy a continuous height anywhere from "0.0 to 1.0", but it would be much more fun if the game would automatically snap your height to either "bottom, middle, or top." It's quite frustrating to lose because you just barely clip a gate.
Kit Kat mocks Apple with Android 4.4 parody video
I wouldn't be so sure AT&T didn't do it entirely on its own. In our crony capitalism times, being friends with the Big Government is a very good strategy for Big Business. Lobbying is the most profitable investment known to man. If giving records to DEA means access to juicy government contracts or a nice regulation that ensures the interests of AT&T are properly protected - then bottom line comes out nicely. That provided anybody besides a handful of geeks would actually care - after all, you'd never do something as vile and disgusting as sell merchandise that the government does not approve, right? So you have nothing to fear and there's no reason for concern at all.
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kindles are extremely fragile devices. I broke my first one when it fell down from couple of inches. second time when I kept in car boot well packed inside padded laptop bag in its own cover.

I not buying another one. whole point of having light ereader is to use it lightly, without cover.
I believe he means a lighter color.
In artificial light situations and low light situations the problem you describe was fairly distracting.

I would assume the main point of this model is to silently remove that problem. If not, I can't for the life of me think as to what the benefit is. Sadly until someone gets their hands on one we shan't find out
> Even without GPS, the cell phone position can often be triangulated by the tower itself.

Towers, not tower. With two towers receiving a cell phone's signal, the phone can be located along a line, with three towers, it can be located as a point -- not as accurate as GPS, but reasonably accurate.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3278/2867853394_7703d6c99f.jp...
Hey I saw this at the Mozilla HTML5 Game Dev meetup, were you the silent guy running the demo?

Awesome work anyway :)
That just means it becomes taxable income.
I don't think this is an Android issue, but with the carriers, and to a lesser degree, the handset makers.
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Wait... so nowadays kids aren't supposed to scrape their knees, elbows, arms, hands, and in fact basically everything?

Because that's what we did when I was young.
Same error with FF 26 MacOS X. Usually, I have no problem with WebGL.
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Nexus 4 soldout means new Nexus 5 for developers
Nexus devices seem to be the only pure developer devices for Android. Google did announce Android 4.4 so maybe Nexus 5 is around the corner.
Of course there were. Even today there are alcoholic bums that will mug you for booze money. You don't really think they are all crack or smack fiends, do you? Heroin withdrawal can make you wish you were dead, alcohol withdrawal can make you dead.

More troubling however is community-consuming gang violence. The sort that we see today and the sort that we saw during prohibition.
Yet Germany has institutionalized the same mentality on a more abstract level.

"Global warming might be happening, shut down the energy industry!"

"We can't use nuclear power, someone might get cancer! Keep mining coal and etching solar panels!"
Of course, it's not necessarily bad, and there's different types of plastic. Some kinds are very rugged.

However, most plastic phones are made of plastic because it's a cheap material that doesn't require much in the way of precision to fit together, and it just doesn't have the same kind of quality (or even quality feel) as a phone made with a different material.
Well I was a bit borred today, I made the Parser/Interpreter part, I can turn the instructions to a SVG document:

https://github.com/guillaume86/SolLewitt
But the fact that Google has been favoring food names doesn't change the basic idea, that those uses won't confuse the public who are in the market for the other kind of ice cream sandwich.
I'm not sure if you have much of a chance of finding the answer if you know nothing about the subject - unless someone else already blogged about it somewhere. I'm sure that many of the people that are confused about it in the comments actually do have a background in biology, and they're having a tough time.
The real problem seems to be the crawlers/spiders aren't keeping up with the technology. I would bet that Google is taking the lead on this because of their love for JS. We will just have to keep pushing them for updates that can index routed JS content. I think the main hurdle is that it requires more machine resources because now they have to run JS in order to see the results.

That being said, if SEO was a big deal to me, such as when I create an e-commerce site, I would use progressive enhancement and some of the semantic-web enhancements to describe my content because sales drive development. I've done that in the past successfully. But I've also just finished an entirely JS-based single-page-application because we didn't need SEO, as everything was hidden behind a login, like facebook.

My point? I don't think one size fits all, yet.
Interesting, I honestly was pretty confident no one who got used to modal editing ever wanted to go back to crazy key chording.
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A few months ago a friend told me he felt hn had jumped the shark. This frontpage discussion about a blog post about a reddit thread pretty much settles any debate there was to be had on that topic!
From Sweden it points directly at kitkat.com
Ask HN: Would you use a fruit vending machine?
I'm having trouble taking you in good faith if your definition of "web developer" is going to continually shrink in the way it is.

I do PHP and Python as well as Java/Scala. In IntelliJ. Because it's a more comfortable environment for me. Like I said: I used to do the vim-and-terminal thing. I've gone
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You missed the switch to negative- 1 through 4 are positive, while 5-8 in your list will be at a disadvantage, according to the article.
There's another possibility. Because of where this was discovered, it's more than possible that it's a new species. There are plenty of undiscovered species in the tropics, especially in the insecta class.
FWIW, the so called campaign is nothing but one Microsoft fanboy who is not affiliated with Microsoft at all.

If you started banning fanboys, that'd take out half the prolific posters on here.
I actually submitted it, but it didn't get too much traction...
You've misrepresenting progressive enhancement as "for people with JS disabled". I guess you didn't get past the first paragraph of the article?

Progressive enhancement actually decreases your testing surfaces by moving more logic to the server which is under your control, whereas the clients are running a variety of different implementations.
Does anyone have a good way of storing recovery codes? I currently keep them on paper, in my wallet, but with more and more sites using 2fa I'm having to carry more and more recovery codes around.
That awesome landing page literally had me salivating.
A big difference between the BIG scenario and what you describe is "everyone has to have a job". The inefficiencies of/resistance to state-mandated production quotas make the two systems significantly different.
Really cool! But the gates are way too hard to see, I feel like I'm colliding with thin air most of the time... The music keeps me playing though :)
I believe it's a drunk hipster spider feeling all artsy.

http://www.google.com/imgres?um=1&sa=N&hl=en&authuser=0&biw=...
Very well performing WebGL Game! Good work. :-)
The issue I have with third-party token applications like the Duo Security one that the github guys are recommending is that due to the way how TOTP works (shared secret), I'm practically giving away my second factor to whoever produces the app.

Google Authenticator has the advantage that it's Open Source, but I can't really control whether the thing I downloaded in the app store is actually built from the public sources. But at least I can build my own if I have a developer account. Apparently people are having issues with GA on iOS7 though (it tends to forget the keys), so now I'm kinda out of luck.

Authy is both closed source and wants my cell phone number, Duo Security is just closed source.

I know it's crazy inconvenient in the long run, but I'd much rather install a github official authenticator app than to trust a third-party app with the github token.
That's true, you could do the swipe. Either way I just missed the buttons.

> HOWEVER - fonts get really jaggy after a few page turns, and that's because the paperwhite only refreshes the entire page every 5 or so turns. You can go to settings and tell it to refresh the entire page every turn - then the fonts are always super sharp.

I know there is an option for that, but I didn't think to give it a try. Maybe that was the problem. I was just amazed that out of the box the font rendering was noticeably worse than a model that was at least 2 years older.
They are not even remotely the same thing.
> Doesn't Stack-anything fill that niche already?

If you ask, "how do I use [library X] to draw a rounded rectangle?" on Stack Overflow, they will put your question on hold until you show code that demonstrates that you tried. This may be difficult for someone who has only just succeeded in getting the library to compile!

To continue the author's car analogy, Ms. Smith sits in the passenger seat while you try to drive to grandpa's house. When you fail to reach your destination and give up, Ms. Smith will tell you what you did wrong. But only if you made a non-trivial effort. If you ram into the living room while trying to exit the driveway, you'll only get a disapproving glare.
And moreover, calls to non-AT&T mobile users are in there. That means you are in there if someone called you from AT&T and/or you called them on AT&T. With a bit of legwork, you could reasonably infer phone number changes on non-AT&T networks given the same people on AT&T and you kept calling each other after your number change.
Ehhhhh, honestly I am not fundamentally opposed to the concept but realistically our whole economic model that the US has run off of the last 100 years. If every job that is not directly producing a tangible good is eliminated frankly their wont be enough consumers to make producing economically viable.

Beyond that, one could argue a brick and mortar provides ample oppurtunity for discovery, previewing, and discussion that amazon doesnt support as directly... and these brick and mortars are dying in part not because of true competition, but because of competition against someone who hasn't had to turn a profit for the last 15 years.
That's almost exactly what I wanted to write until I read the definition of his analytical engine on Wikipedia. Although IBM says they formed through a merger of three companies in 1911, it's origins started in the 1880s and I count that as the true beginning of IBM. Note that in 1911 the company was called CTR and they kept that name until 1924, so either way I don't think 1911 accurately reflects the founding year of IBM.
Operating system — ships with optional Android 4.2.2 microSD card; supports Android and Linux

Pedantic, I know, but title sounds like you get a device that dual-boots into Android and Linux. By "optional", I presume that means at added cost. By "supports", I think that means you're on your own as to distro (though I suspect a device-specific distro would come out in short order). The $45 version only ships with 512mb RAM - I run servers without windowing environment in that space all the time, but perhaps one of the smarter Linux gurus can comment as to suitability for running XBMC, etc?
>So if you yourself admit that you won't voluntarily donate money and help the poor unless you really have some extra, what moral right do you think you have to tell other people they should?

He is acknowledging that the trend the of the public as a whole is to let the poor rot. Morals come in when he recognizes that this is wrong, and can be solved by society as whole. Not specific people.

>Why do you think it's ok to take care of your family and friends less and care about strangers more?

This safety net isn't exclusive to 'everyone else'. It is in place to catch everyone, including your family and friends, and their family and friends, and those who might not have family and friends. How is paying a measly some annually/quarterly caring about strangers more? It doesn't necessitate taking care of your own less, and is a straw man on your part. To me, it is a pittance of a tribute to the fact that 'others exist, ugghhh'.

> if somebody forces you to help the poor, are you really becoming a better person?

That does not matter. What matters is that someone isn't starving, homeless, or without medical care.
So Microsoft has lost the PC to Apple because of the manufacturer fragmentation in Windows PCs? Yeah, that makes sense.
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Screenshot all QR codes and store them in Dropbox, which also has 2-factor authentication. Store recovery code for Dropbox in Google Docs, which also has 2-factor authentication.

So for me to be totally screwed, I would have to lose my phone and have my logins expire on both Dropbox and Google.

Hasn't happened yet =)
Forget what?
I will say I was very impressed with the on-screen keyboard. I could just hammer the little keys as fast as I could type a word, and while the screen couldn't update fast enough it didn't lose keystrokes.

It's sad that that's impressive, but that's where embedded software is today.
> as he has seen firsthand the effect of the War of Drugs on minorities through his work on The Wire

Or rather through his 16 years as journalist on the police beat at the Baltimore Sun, from which he got enough material to write 3 books and 3 TV series, including The Wire.

It's really weird how TV just outshines everything else as soon as it gets in the picture. Simon will forever be "the guy who wrote The Wire", like he was a barista in Hollywood who just sat down at the kitchen table one day and made up all of it in his head and then proceeded to film it for TV.

(And no, I don't agree with him on the subject: the fact that evils come in different forms and shapes doesn't mean we should ignore one or the other.)
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Earlier this summer we learned that our online activity is being recorded and analyzed. Some believe encrypting traffic is the answer to preserving privacy(1), however, encryption is complicated(2) and its real-world efficacy debatable(3). A new project, CyberFlare, eschews encryption for simply creating noise with artificial traffic which makes it hard to identify trends in genuine traffic. The code for CyberFlare is released under the GNU GPLv3 and is written in C++ using Qt5. Find it at https://github.com/whitebeachstudios/cyberflare. Check out the code, and join us today!

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The almost stereotypical star trek DS9 scene where (anyone) is working on something complicated and has five PADDS on the desk all shuffling around.

Relatively few people own and simultaneously use multiple ereaders. Probably much more common in the future.
Actually, I misread your earlier post.

Yes, what Facebook does is progressive rendering, but I disagree that it's the ideal since it's still blocked by JS. The ideal is serving HTML from the server which can get content on the screen before JS downloads.

"That is just built-in browser technology to achieve the same goal" - exactly. Tweetdeck does progressive rendering, but it avoids the simplest way of doing it and instead reinvents the technique with JavaScript. You can see what this does to performance.
This is a major pain point for me, and this solves half of it.

Every time I buy a book, I have to do a lot of thinking: Is is good enough I'll want to lend it? Will I need to travel with it? Is it worth getting rid of some other book on my bookshelf to make room for it? Am I going to refer to it? If so, will it be just the occasional text search, or do I need the random access of a physical book? There is often no good answer.

This actually results in me buying fewer books. A number of times I have waffled on this and then just never bought the book. It also increases resentment toward Amazon: when I buy a book and then have to re-buy it in the other format, it's really annoying.

In addition to this, I want them to add the other direction: if I buy the Kindle book, can I upgrade to a physical edition for the price difference (plus, optionally, a modest fee)?
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I am one of the early backers of the OUYA, and I can confirm XBMC and Netflix work great (don't know for Pandora).

The only issue I have with the OUYA is the weak Wifi support in XBMC, which forces you to: A) link the device via ethernet B) Copy files via a USB connection to OUYA
I'm a little bit surprised the HN software doesn't have rules to automatically scrub the links. Also there's no evidence the OP meant to post the affiliate link. He could have just got it off Twitter (or wherever) and pasted it into HN.
How important is this stuff? How much time and money do you want to spend on it?

Most archiving software can create extra recovery data, which can help if some of it bit rots. You can supplement that with Par2 data. You then need to have multiple copies, in multiple locations.

If you really don't want to trust a hard drive (you should never trust one! But having multiple copies of data on multiple drives is pretty good) you can get good quality CDs and tyvek sleeves and archival storage boxes and some climate controlled rooms (again, mulitple rooms in different geographical locations).

Then, handle the discs correctly. (http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/docs/disccare.html)

(http://www.archivalmethods.com/news/Binders%20and%20Albums/M...)