skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
http://octopus.org

Firstly, I'm a Marketer. I think whilst many other jobs and functions in business are becoming commoditized, you can't commoditize creativity. Marketing I also believe separates the best businesses - it's the 'moat'.

Octopus is my vision of how the role of the Marketer and software in general might take shape. It's clear that with SAAS and the ever expanding role of the CMO, there's going to be lots of choices and lots of scope in Marketing. This brings problems too, like how to select the right applications and vendors.

Hopefully with Octopus, Marketers will be able rely on a service that helps them choose and buy the right Marketing software and services for them/their company.
Here are two more javascript encoders that are useful for getting around filters:

http://utf-8.jp/public/jjencode.html
http://utf-8.jp/public/aaencode.html
You do know, that even now, there are wild boars (hunted for sport in Germany) that cannot be eaten due to too-high levels of radioactivity, right?

see http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2011/0401/R...

And I have suggested nothing of the sort about Chernobyl rendering all food inedible... the type of accident, the fact it is water-borne rather than wind-borne, and that there is nearly 10 times the amount of nuclear material at Fukushima (1600 tons) vs Chernobyl (180 tons) make for a very different situation.

(I am not even including the spent fuel rods which Reuters amongst other news sources, claims are very dangerous if not handled properly: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/13/fukushima-nuclear-p... )

Besides, it has been more than 2 years and no covering of Fukushima has been done, whereas in Chernobyl they erected a cover over the reactor within 6 months.

What we do know as part of the historical record, is that the operator, TEPCO, has been lying or at least, shading the truth, about the severity of the situation all along.
Thanks jmathai,

[I'm the OP & guy in the video]

The 15 new APIs are a suite of specific services to quickly transcode, resize, slice & dice all kinds of media assets. They're meant to quickly build UI features around UGC media for web & mobile apps.
Yes: if media asset management is the core value proposition, these services may be used to rapidly prototype and test new features, rather than build the core product. We do however have customers in the photo sharing space. The majority of them are either starting apps, or building UX quickly - for instance we've powered promotional experiences for all kinds of large brands (Coke, Visa, Samsung, Nike) e.g. jordan.com/liftoff

Our core product is the video creation API: send a XML description of the composition of a video, it renders a video file.

The video messaging was more mass media than HN.
If you look at http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/STM/cavp/documents/drbg/drbgval.... you can see who's using EC_DBRG.

Most notably apart from RSA is the "McAfee Firewall Enterprise Control Center" (who actually use RSA's library)
Sorry, I was somewhat ambiguous. I meant:

Now most of the general public knows the nature of their work and some of the details surrounding it.
HTML is a language for describing documents, right? The way I see it, there is an issue with HTML today. These days, many web developers are now exploring alternatives to a documents-based paradigm, and gearing their apps toward being "long-lived", while retaining the URLs and graphical support that modern browsers give us. Ember is a great example of this, there's very little markup you actually have to write when using Ember views and components. I don't really build "web sites" anymore, I build "web applications" which are typically one page but include all of the application's contents within that page. They do act the same, but are coded in wildly different ways.

Don't get me wrong, I like HTML and I'm not trying to disrespect what was arguably the first foray I had with "programming". But if we are intending to make the web into something more along the lines of a massively distributed application runtime, rather than a repository of documents that anyone can access, where does a document markup description language fit into all that? When developing some (kinds of) applications, I feel that HTML only serves as an obstacle, rather than a means of helping me make the app. I feel like I do most of my "real work" in CSS and JavaScript.
You don't need to get everyone in the world to be consuming more energy than the average European to have converted most energy to solar though. I am all for using fudge-factors to allow for rough data, but I don't see the point in starting a calculation with completely fictional data when there is data available.
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I also recall reading about some lady who died of fluorosis from drinking gallons of tea a day.

edit: link found via google: http://www.livescience.com/28078-skeletal-fluorosis-tea-drin...
Why do people think it's worthwhile to file abuse complaints about port 22 connections? If I wanted to file a complaint about every random connection to port 22 on one of my machines, it would be a full time job...
This is actually a pretty good attack. The only problem I see is the usefulness of the evidence that the attack gathers. Visiting an FBI warning over Tor isn't illegal, so appearing in some child-porn-user database because you were curious about how the exploit worked is a little disturbing, given the stigma child porn has.

I'd also like to see the legal theory they used to seize control of someone's computer. Did a judge sign off on this attack strategy?

But ultimately, I think they used some pretty good software engineering to solve a problem they wanted to solve.
I've lost a little over 40 pounds (272 to 230-ish) since February (and I'm still losing weight pretty steadily). Here's what I do:

1. Bike to work (~5 there plus ~5 miles back for a total of ~10 miles per work day)

2. Stopped drinking soda (and most sugary drinks)

3. Switched to a standing desk at work (I pace when I think so it's almost like walking all day)

4. Do minor exercise during down time at work (push ups, dips mostly)

5. Regularly asking myself if I have time to go to the gym and actually going when I find I don't have a good excuse (I got this idea from that lucid dreaming trick).

6. Consistently trying to eat less in general (based on rough calorie counts) by asking myself if I need to eat more or cook that much.

7. Continually improving balance in diet (more fruits/veggies is usually what I need to do)

8. Cooking as much as I would eat in one sitting, but saving half for lunch the next day (no more seconds)

I've always been pretty physically active, but I've also always had a tendency to eat as much as I wanted constantly. This led to rapid weight gain whenever circumstances had me exercising less. Restraining myself was a steady process, but now I actually can't eat as much as I used to, and I find I actually eat less when exercising less, which is good.
I was pretty shocked at how noisy the 100% images were. That much noise[1] in broad daylight (in spite of some very aggressive noise reduction) is surprising.

[1]100% crop from the photo on the landing page http://i.imgur.com/2lbzB7G.jpg
Article says 90% are over 20.
Your location in a public place is not a secret. It is not legally protected. This is well established by multiple precedents.

Heck, FBI agents can legally place a tracking device on your car, without a warrant if they do so while your car is in a public place (http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/03/federal-judge-rules-fb...).
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Does it work with Chrome's certificate pinning?
Throw off the shekels? Any shekels you want to throw off you just send my way, okay?
The general principle is that an employee has to cost less than the money they bring in. The best HN-related example is that if you work for a software development firm, and if they bill you out to clients at $100 an hour, your total cost to them (your hourly wage + taxes + healthcare + benefits + extra) has to be less than $100.

To properly phrase your example, yes it is depend on "work", but work is dependent on revenue. If McDs needs 10 employees per shift where they generate $800, each employees total cost per shift cannot be more than $80, which works out to about $10 CTC (cost-to-company) per hour in an 8-hour shift.

If you now mandate that the worker salary MUST be $12 or higher than $12, McDs is losing money. So you either pray for an increase in business (sales), or cut costs (ie, fire people) and automate.

And lower-skilled jobs are easier to automate. It's easier to automate fast-food checkout by having (for example) iPads for people to place their orders, so your human workforce can just be the cooks at the back and the janitorial staff.
bigoted opinion.

Apache runs fine on the Pi. Memory considerations aren't a concern when you have 512MB of RAM, and CPU difference is neglibible for these small workloads.
It's unlikely that that would happen, unless we suddenly get a new president in the coming years who is unlike the rest and vehemently anti-domestic surveillance.

They might undergo some reform, but the government apparatus has been far too reliant on many aspects of their work to actually shut them down.
This has been more or less done, on a more global scale.

Have a look at the minimum wage in every developed country compared to America. Now have a look at the standard of living for the average person on the street in all those countries compared to America. You have your answer.

Comparatively, America is a developing country.
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Because SEO is so important, you should be really careful about the sort of assertion you're making - most people will read your post and assume that the googles can read html generated by js template rendering. AFAIK, this is false, and this is a huge problem for single page js apps - they're often SEO crippled.

Most people running js webapps are not following google's ajax webcrawling directives or paying seo4ajax to solve the problem for them. It's irresponsible to say that there's no SEO problem with client side rendering.
What is concentrated? Areas with a low cost of living?
Read the other comments that have been posted here. =)
Everybody has to worship something.
First Alpha of FreeBSD 10 Is Now Available for Download
I agree with this. I didn't mean to make it sound as if HTML and CSS were perfect. There is always room for improvements. For example, with CSS you now have the option to use LessCSS or SASS.
Where can I find an authoritative comparison of computer languages?
It didn't even make the seafood off the coast of Japan inedible.
the combination of shirt color and skin color contributes to appearance
Police "techniques" involve guns, tear gas, helicopters, etc. At any time the police could in theory fly to your house, launch tear gas into your windows, and shoot you in the head as you run out. And I don't know about you, but I'm not exactly worried about that happening to the point where I want to take guns, tear gas, and helicopters away from the police.

This is the FBI taking down criminals engaging in a clear criminal activity, and it is silly to implicitly compare it to the NSA fishing for terrorists. All the evidence gathered here will be presented in a court of law, all the techniques used will have to be approved by judges as in accordance with laws and the constitution or the gathered evidence will be thrown out. The suspect and any other future suspects will get a trial if they want. It will be out in the open.

If you are upset that the software you thought was secure and anonymous isn't as secure and anonymous as you thought, that isn't the FBI's fault.
I'm from NZ and lived in Denmark for three months so here's some anecdata. Some prices increased but most are comparable to home, where the minimum wage is approximately half. The only things that are increased greatly are ones with the primary cost in personnel. Clothing and groceries are about the same, fuel too.
if you're curious about your server keys:

cd /etc/ssh
for pub in `ls -1 *.pub`; do ssh-keygen -l -f $pub; done

[edit: sorry; thought no-one had replied. earlier i asked what i should worry about in ssh config. edit2: actually, i am using fail2ban.]
Are you sure you thought this post through?
Great feedback, thank you! If you don't want a jQuery dependency then you probably don't want OJ =).

As for the CSS support it is actually quite elegant. Maybe 100 lines with full support for '&:nested' selectors, and nestable '@media' query support.

One thing that I've been considering is right now 40-50% of the oj.js filesize is support for the Form Elements (TextBox, ListBox, CheckBox,Button) and the "collection" elements (BulletList,NumberList,Table). I'm still considering pulling these out of the core and making them plugins. The issue is they manipulate the basic tags (input,textarea,table,ul,etc) so they seem pretty fundamental. Is that something you would want?
You're ignoring every contextual adjective in each of my sentences. I didn't say that CPM ads don't work; I said that CPM ads don't work on websites. They work in non-interactive media, because you are focused on looking, instead of on interacting. Your brain isn't put into an active searching/hunting/gathering tunnel-vision mode. You aren't thinking "is this paragraph worth tweeting." You're just passively consuming, and so your passive consumption can be paused to deliver a word from our sponsor.

> The best ads work when you don't even realize they are an advertisement.

To me, Reddit's ads are excellent because they are precisely the opposite of that: they are clearly ads, they clearly sell me something, I can clearly tell what it is, it's definitely something I want, and if I click it, I know I'll get it, quickly and cleanly. And because all those things are true, the ads can afford to be subtle and pretty, instead of harsh and eyecatching. Sometimes it's just a link to another subreddit, and what they're "selling" is more (loss-leading) free membership. Sometimes it's something that costs money. It's always something relevant.

And the thing is, CPC ads usually are relevant, because it's very easy to tell as the site-owner when they're "working" on a page, and to split-test different ad-providers to find out whose ads get clicked more (and thereby find out what ads people actually enjoy clicking.) In fact, you have to do this with CPC ads--because irrelevant ads won't get clicked, and so you won't be making any money! This doesn't apply to CPM ads, and so CPM ads are generally irrelevant; there's no feedback loop in place to make them relevant. They're not incentivized to be relevant. And yes, if I could, I'd block them as a "revenue source for websites"--because without the (stupid) option of CPM, advertisers would just switch to offering CPC all the time (it's not like they want to suddenly lose 90% of their placements and go out of business either), and the quality of ads on the internet would improve immesurably.

And, having done that, advertising on the Internet becomes as simple as "Do you click on ads? Here are some ads, then." The incentives of that make everyone -- the user, the site-owner, and the advertiser -- much happier.

(And no, I'm not using "CPM" to also refer to brand-associated sponsorship/PR like HN; that's fine, and works everywhere, because it works gradually instead of needing to hook you away from the content you're consuming. Instead, I'm using CPM to refer specifically to creatives that could be CPC, but aren't. Those, and those only, are what create the misaligned incentives for sites to run horrible ads their users have absolutely no interest in.)
this is fantastic. now I know who I can sue for destroying the tormail accounts I was using for (legal) business purposes. Probably the best news I've had since Tormail went down.
Overall teen employment is very, very slightly affected by a minimum wage, after adjusting for spatial and temporal inhomogeneity. At least that's the consensus from most recent articles I've seen on the topic.

The consensus is less conclusive on specific effects on minority groups. I've seen at least one paper showing short-term unemployment increase in minority groups. I've also seen at least one paper showing increased employment/earnings in younger, more affluent teens.

Some of the recent well-cited studies:

http://www.irle.berkeley.edu/workingpapers/166-08.pdf (2011)
Looking at 1990-2009 CPS data: "Including controls for long-term growth differences among states and for heterogeneous economic shocks renders the employment and hours elasticities indistinguishable from zero and rules out any but very small disemployment effects. Dynamic evidence further shows the nature of bias in traditional estimates, and it also rules out all but very small negative long-run effects."

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-8543.2009.... (2009)
"A 10 per cent increase in the minimum wage reduces employment by about 0.10 per cent (see column 4 of Table 3). But even if this adverse employment effect were true, it would be of no practical relevance. An elasticity of −0.01 has no meaningful policy implications. If correct, the minimum wage could be doubled and cause only a 1 per cent decrease in teenage employment."
Why can't it be both?

Applications are still, in essence, a type of interactive view hierarchy of document. The web can serve up both types of data: document-based (e.g. Wikipedia) and application-based (e.g. Gmail). Being able to have a core toolchain of three inter-related languages that can communicate with each other that you can use as required should be the final goal. For instance, if you're writing a web application, you could only use CSS/JS, and if you needed to write a very simple blog, you could use all three, or just HTML and CSS.

Having more options never hurt anyone. Better JIT of JavaScript code would break pure JS open, allowing full apps to be written without language fragmentation. Those who will still require stylesheets can use them as they wish. It's a win-win situation on both ends.
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> However, please consider adding our scanner (71.6.151.167) to your "whitelist". We are well-known cyber-sec researchers, we aren't trying anything nefarious or evil, and we are being as transparent as possible about our scans.

Sure and while we are at it I'll fetch the lube.

I don't complain about port 22 connections because none of my machines run anything on port 22 (I move SSH to a random port mostly to deter whatever is coming out of China this week).

Even if you do find the port you still have to get around the ssh key's (so unless you are the NSA (j/k)), you could try an exploit against ssh but as it doesn't report its version good look with that and do try to avoid triggering fail2ban.

I'm not a systems administrator (I guess I'd be DevOps) but I know enough to know I don't know enough to disregard best practice.
What? If they have a picture of your plate they have the address the vehicle registration is sent to. If it's a rental, they can get renter info pretty easily.
If you now mandate that the worker salary MUST be $12 or higher than $12, McDs is losing money. So you either pray for an increase in business (sales), or cut costs (ie, fire people) and automate.

Or you increase prices. Or a combination of the three.
Human beings have a long history of rising to a challenge

This is true, but let's not use our past successes as an excuse to rest on our laurels. Right now humanity is firmly on track for ecological and economic disaster, and nature doesn't give two shits about our track record.

Our problems are serious, and we must attack them head-on. Not tomorrow. Now.
Well, check up in this thread for a list of a lot of examples.

I don't believe people, and much more, hackers, would deny that PC and technology gets more restrictive, and companies like to push that as much as they can.

Here's a few examples:

1) You could change the memory of a Mac laptop (but not with current versions where it's purposefully glud to the board).

2) You could expand a Mac Pro, change GPU, even CPU, etc (but not with the new version).

3) You could change the battery of older iPods, not with newer models, iPhones or iPads.

In general, todays more prevalent forms, from laptops to tablets are not user servicable like desktops (and even laptops) used to be.

4) You used to run anything on OS X without any restrictions. Now OS X added code signing and a mode that only let's you run signed-apps (and another mode that only let's you run only App Store apps).

5) Older (windows) tablets run everything. Then the iPad come that only runs iTunes Store iOS apps (without a jailbreak). Every company started adding stores (Play store, Windows store) to their offerings.

6) You could change GUI themes in Mac OS (Kaleidoscope, etc). Not with OS X.

7) Windows just needed a serial code from the box you bought. Then internet activation became mandatory. In general, software using the internet for purchase validation was few and optional. Now most software has some form of mandatory "activation" step.

8) You could buy Creative Suite in a box and use it forever. Now subscription is mandatory.

You can find tons more examples. Either stuff gets incrementally locked down or something cames along and replaces the previous form with a more restricted newer one.

You might want to reduce your sarcasm and read on this:

http://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html
Heroku-shortcuts gem open sourced
He is referring to racism.
Oh, is that all. The CC statement is not very detailed. From the last two months, you'll see several deliveries from Mountain Mikes Pizza, some various (non-descript) charges at Amazon ranging from a few dollars (music) to a few hundred dollars (bought a smoker), my $7.99 NetFlix sub, my bi-weekly delivery of organic fruits/veggies from a "local" farm (Farm Fresh To You), the equipment protection plan for my phone, the Veritas Instrument rental for my kid, ~5k in car repair last month at Volkswagen, monthly membership to City Beach, my web hosting bill (Rochen Host), DVD rental from RedBox, a donation to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, I stopped at a local pub (The Hopyard) for a couple pints and I reloaded my BART card.
> EZ passes are supposed to be used in one car

This is not strictly true. When registering a second EZ pass for a second car, I was told that we could use either EZ pass in either car. The EZ passes were tied to the account and the cars were tied to the account and that was all that mattered.

For another use case, I was told that I am allowed to take my own EZ pass with me in a taxi cab, and request that the driver use it for tolls instead of his own.
If you are using the default config the chances are you are using passwords to login? This is bad because unless you are using something like fail2ban you are leaving yourself open to brute force attacks.

Rough best practice is, 1) Use SSH keys to login 2) Enforce SSH to login (no password) 3) Disable Root Logins (login then elevate permissions not logging in as root) 4) Move from port 22 to something else (if you do 1-3 this shouldn't matter I do it mostly to keep the crap out my logs) 5) install something like fail2ban to automatically blacklist IP addresses.