skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It seems to me that US is one of a select few countries who actually employ a lot of people full-time parting travelers with their electronics and harassing them.

A lot more countries reserve rights to do so; US actually do it on a grand scale. That makes all the difference.
This video http://2010.osdc.com.au/proposal/196/git-ages-4-and from http://think-like-a-git.net/sections/git-makes-more-sense-wh... was very helpful.
"There's another about a pair of Googlers, each married to other people, secretly having a child together."

How is this possible? Are they adopting? It seems like if one of them is a woman and she is bringing the child to term, her husband would notice. Unless she just doesn't see him for ~5 months (which I suppose is another possibility)
How about this: why don't you tell me what you think my "line in the sand" is? I bet I don't have that line at all.

I have a different explanation for why I always seem to be at odds with people on NSA topics, but I'll wait to provide it.
You nailed it. You managed to perfectly articulate what I couldn't. The BlackBerry OS is fantastic, but people aren't willing to try it.

I hope the OS survives even if the company doesn't.
I have the same question, from the same position of ignorance.

can we get some tptacek up in here?
nobody got aws.amazon.com for A?

almost my entire alphabet is taken over by internal tools with Web UIs.
Not trying to be even more of a downer, but top-down market sizing is almost always off by significant orders of magnitude.

It's great to say that the total size of a market is, on paper, $77 million (or $100 billion). But not only does this fail to reveal how much of it is realistically addressable, the overall number itself is more easily overestimated than underestimated.

I'm not saying that Lollipuff is a bad idea, or can't be successful, but one thing to note is that a lot of individuals who buy fake luxury goods do so knowingly.[1] There are various reasons for this. For many, the real product is too expensive. For others, a counterfeit purchase is based on the recognition that an average person can't tell a decent knock-off from an authentic item (so why pay full price to impress friends and passers-by if you don't need to?). Some opt to buy counterfeit items for "everyday use." Net-net: a not insignificant number of the counterfeit sales are intentional transactions.

Lollipuff's real market consists of women who want to purchase authentic (used?) luxury items online and who can afford them and who are sufficiently concerned about counterfeits and who seek out alternative purchasing channels to address this concern.

Is this a large enough market, and will Lollipuff be able to capture enough of it to have a viable business? I don't know, but I do know that taking the total value of online resales for certain product categories and brands and using those to size the market will produce market size figures that are way too large to be considered realistic.

[1] http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/01/08/us-usa-counterfeit...
I like this idea to reduce dependence on trusting any given algorithm.

If I'm a global passive adversary, I would try to attack your blobs in these ways:

1) weaken your random number generators

2) guess your password by running massive dumps of passwords and passwords mutated with rules against pbkdf2 (why didn't you use scrypt?)

3) try to convince you or your system to decrypt a blob and reveal the plaintext to me surreptitiously (not so passive)

4) try to get your password from security flaws in wherever you store it

5) conduct traffic analysis on who is storing blobs where and when, and how long their blobs are

My bet is that the password is the weak point. Can you do anything to address that?
Not that it matters but, it wasn't public.
that's not my point. I hope people really have a deep through before they do anything.

But, I have more interesting to troll and patent trolls. Both are fun and worth doing.
So the comparisons to other industries are misleading in one sense and deeply revealing in another.

Movies spread out their sales over an extremely long time compared to games. This means that box office numbers will be smaller. This ALSO means that they are not serving many markets that could bring them revenue off the bat.

Games that don't release on all platforms simultaneously have a similar problem, but nowhere near that of movies which refuse to let people watch them in their preferred format from the start.
Correct, most brokers use PTP also.
Funny you should mention this.

So my mom was a civil-service accountant/programmer for the armed services at NAS Moffett Field in the 1970's. She recounted story after story of conspicous waste, especially related to expensive aircraft parts (lost/stolen/missing).

Also, a guy I know became very unpopular (career ending) with COs for objecting to needlessly chewing up $1 mil helicopter turbines.

So it seems par for the course.
No, it's mostly replacement for the spring-web/struts/jersey/etc. layer (though it also has its own templating layer to replace JSP or whaever). You can run it under tomcat if you want to.
Once again, another sensationalist piece about Google. Human beings are political creatures. Human beings are also sexual creatures. Is this surprising? No.
Then again, it is Slate...
It should be worth noting that the fingerprint sensor on the iPhone5S is far more advanced than that door.

Read up on more details and critique about TouchID:
http://arstechnica.com/security/2013/09/fingerprints-as-pass...
Why aren't SQL/ODBC/JDBC APIs exposed as-is?

What does fronting a database with a web service buy you? Rate throttling? Load balancing? Metering?

Why isn't there a JBDC proxy server thingie that does those things for straight JDBC?
Let's say I built a house on a land that belongs to no country. Now, whose house is it? It's mine as long as I can protect it. So property rights are defined not by some piece of paper, but rather by the ability to enforce them. Government is just one way to enforce property rights, I'd argue a rather inefficient one, since it usually can only deal with consequences of an intrusion (and not prevent it). In an absence of government, I could hire a private protection agency to enforce my property rights. And since many other people would be interested in doing the same, there will be a demand and prices would be very affordable.

So don't you dare say that I have my house because of the government.
Where I live this problem is solved by raising prices, so you can't find coffee for less than 5$ in busy places.

But if for some reason business is averse to raising prices, weird schemes materialize.
Pretty sure you can't call a non-deterministic algorithm stable.
* Programming (all kinds - from model behavior to
game logic to AI to net code, backend, etc)
* 3D Modeling
* Texturing
* Art
* Scripts (as in narrative)
* Music and sound effects
* Voice recording by professional actors
* Motion capture of actors
* QA
* Sys admins
* Product and project managers
* All kinds of executives got paid a shit ton for making decisions
* Equipment for all of the above
* Software licenses
* Advertising
* Packaging
VIPS can be a great replacement for gd and magick; it's not as user friendly but it's ridiculously fast.

http://www.vips.ecs.soton.ac.uk/index.php?title=Libvips
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Sounds like cowboy coffee to me, except for which container you settle the grounds in.
Yes. http://reviews.cnet.com/iphone-5s/

"The Touch ID-enabled home button feels invisible; it works with a tap, can recognize your finger from many angles, and feels like it has less of a fail rate than fingerprint sensors I've used on laptops. It's impressive tech. It worked on all my fingers, and even my toe (I was curious)."
Fwiw there are also machines that do it now, though purists disdain them. They are rare in homes (unlike espresso machines in Italy), but many commercial establishments in Turkey, the Balkans, and the Middle East will use the machine by default, if you don't inquire. In Greece there's probably a 50-60% chance of it being a machine nowadays, if you order at a restaurant or bakery and don't specifically ask if it's made in a briki. As is often the case, the solution to adapting to fast-paced capitalism seems to be automation.
By contrast, I would LOVE to see an article like this about entertainment.

A solid, testable method of building entertainment people will pay for would be extremely valuable - to me and many other people.

(Patio11, any ideas?)
An interesting data point from the boilerplate about the RSA in a press release [1]:

"With approximately a billion RSA BSAFE-enabled applications in use worldwide, more than nine million RSA SecurID authentication users and almost 20 years of industry experience, RSA Security has the proven leadership and innovative technology to address the changing security needs of e-business and bring trust to the new, online economy."

I know this submission has been flagged off the front page, but I'm curious on your opinion if this number is misleading.

[1]http://www.tgc.com/dsstar/01/0724/103320.html
I've been using FreeBSD as my main system since version 9.0 (before that ~8years of using linux - slack, arch, crux, suse, debian).

Graphics: intel and nvidia will work fine (well, except you can't switch back to text mode once you load intel module - will be fixed, just not a priority).

Wifi: works flawlessly.

Multimedia: I use mplayer/emacs. No difference from linux.

Flash: Works, sometimes hangs (once a week? I'm use youtube a lot). You will have to remember to manually update your plugins (running nspluginwrapper), if you don't - expect pain.

Wine: same as linux, depends on your graphics card support (if playing games).

User friendliness: If you can get around in archlinux, you will manage just fine with FreeBSD.
Not a technical person/don't like to play with your system? I highly recommend giving PC-BSD a look - imho it is comparable (slightly worse) to openSUSE - you can configure almost everything with a mouse. And the system is fast.

Suspend/hibernation: never managed to make it work (thinkpad e320).

Other:
First of all, I love to tweak. FreeBSD is only *nix I tried that worked well no matter what I changed and worked AS I EXPECTED IT WOULD!
Once you configure your system you are done. Expect it to behave properly and not require any fixes because you updated at a wrong time etc. (I hated ubuntu for it - I had to roll back packages manually THREE TIMES! - yes I am spoiled by FreeBSD :D ).

You can use ZFS as your root partition.

There is almost no documentation and tutorials in the web (compared to linux), the reason for that is EVERYTHING IS DOCUMENTED. Just RTFMan/Handbook. It takes a while to get used to it if you used linux before.
Sure, they can use their First Amendment rights to support whatever candidate they want. But when said candidate gets elected and pushes a law through that directly benefits the contributor to the detriment of the people, then the free market is dead. At that point you have crony capitalism.

I don't see anything in your paragraph disputing my statement. You are describing things leading up to the mistakes of the doctor while I describe what happens afterwards.

Are you saying that crony capitalism doesn't exist? Because that's the only way I would agree with your No True Scotsman fallacy accusation. Seems to me you are attempting to make yourself appear clever with your condescending statement instead of actually addressing my point.
Religion != race
I've been under the assumption from reading some crypto over the years that in particular what your thinking of is applying the "same" crypto multiple times. Offering the same cryptography scheme multiple times is horribly bad. Like 3DES is horribly bad when implemented because it eats up the keyspace reducing the issue for it.

If the schemes of cryptography that you use do not reduce the amount of permutations/possibilities that you are using I see no reason why it wouldn't at least add a bit of extra difficulty in attaining the calculations behind the results.

This does sound like the right way to deal with cryptography with Javascript as pointed out by Triplesec:
"authenticates with HMAC to protect against (adaptive) chosen-ciphertext attacks; and supplements the native entropy sources (window.crypto.getRandomValues in the browser and crypto.rng in Node.js) for fear they are weak."

Particulary because other ways of dealing with javascript random number generators (especially their api) is awful.
You can read about some of that here: http://www.matasano.com/articles/javascript-cryptography/

But, I would still like to hear someone who knows more about using these three schemes back to back. Sometimes the permutations are effected in weird ways.
I think the key to that quote is the agile mindset: the thing you think you're building might not be the thing that will actually meet the customer's need. So regular validation of a "good enough" product will be a better use of time than making the first prototype screamingly fast.
It is a violation of military law for Israeli citizens to enter the Palestinian Territories, full stop. That is why many never visit, as it means severe penalties without trial. As a foreigner who crossed in and out, it is still unpleasant, particularly with Palestinians with Jerusalem plates (those fortunate enough to have free passage). The kind of asshole-ish behavior rivals the TSA.

If anything, that should make the TSA embarrassed.
Because some distributed content generation platforms like YouTube, the Huffington Post, Bleacher Report, and others have proved to be enormously successful and popular, so other content companies have tried to emulate that success?
So what can't I do when I go to other EU country that you can when changing state in US? I still get health care, I still can work there, I can move there if i so desire. What can't I do what I could possibly still want?
You don't need to make a fake Play project to create a shared module. Any SBT or Maven project will work just fine.

That's how we do it anyways.
Let me just say that when my brain tries to survey the landscape for products that use crypto, it mentally discounts all the SecurID tokens; it doesn't occur to me to think about the RSA in-house products that use BSAFE. So yes, there's another group of deployed products that use commercial crypto libraries, because they're sold by a company that also owns a commercial crypto library.

My reasoning about this mostly comes from the fact that products usually don't use commercial crypto libraries.
They benefit from Apple's Billions in up front purchasing.
They go down when you are trying to decide, if you decide against Intel[1], and still have to buy Intel stuff, the price on that other stuff goes up.

[1] They were really pushing Itanium as their 64 bit solution to keep it out of the x86 line. But that was never going to work for NetApp.
$115m to develop the game, $150 million to market it. [1]

[1]http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-09-18/grand-theft-...
I didn't say it is better. I said it doesn't matter if it's leaps and bounds better. Everyone hates them worse than The Devil and there's nothing that can be done about it regardless of ecosystem and devices. People just aren't willing to even peek, nevermind even giving it a shot.
reminds me of the State Science Institute
and some pretty sweet markup it is indeed.
"swear words"?
How Much Time do we Have Left on Earth?
Well then I have a whole lot more to learn on the subject.

I might have created an Ipsum Language replacement then? :) Useful only in displaying 'dummy' text that makes no sense but it is used to cover and pad text areas for testing purposes or as filler text?
I've started seeing a massage therapist for my back and when they gave me a tour of the office they showed me a shrine of the local high school football team with autographed pictures, helmets, etc.

The kid giving me the tour was proud to announce "we take care of the high school football team!".

I looked it up after and it turns out the school pays for these kids to get massages so they play better football. I pay nearly 700 a month to the ISD in taxes because I own a home. It hurts me to know that some of that pays for a teenager to get a massage before each big game.

I realize I am in Texas but it's still maddening that this goes on.
i am now going to include sl on every install i ever do for other people.
Plenty of places do this, I have run training programs and helped with co-op training for new developers now in three different companies, and I can say, yes, there is room.

And, yet, our demand for developers with experience surpassing the average co-op or college grad doesn't change. It can be hard to make much progress with a team of mostly younger developers when every technical discussion someone is asking, "what is FTP", or "I read that GET is the only safe way to pass values", etc. Sometimes, it _really_ pays off to just hire someone who has already figured out a certain level of the fundamentals and can hit the ground running into more advanced walls like lack of business domain knowledge.
just came to say the same thing !
I keep saying it, and downvote me if you wish. Screw Firebase, and long live any initiative from Mozilla. I am not going to shove my data, realtime or not, through some commercial service I have no intention of paying for and exposing myself to the same non-sense as before.

However, I will give Mozilla a hard time this time around: the README on Github kind of dismisses my desire to host my own TogetherJS/TowTruck server. I am sad only because with other projects, like Firefox Sync and to some extent Persona once the code is stableish, they encourage people hosting their own server-side components.

In any event, no Firebase for me. Thanks.
I think you commented on the wrong article.
Some shells do this -- at least Zsh and Fish, probably more.
>eventually bleeding into passive-aggressive attacks on the knowledge of others.

Thanks for proving my point.
This is true but that's a non-trivial task even before you get to the question of running it on all third-party code and getting the upstream to patch it. This would solve the problem only in the same way that static analysis tools mean C code no longer has buffer overflows or type conversion errors.
Assuming that you want to work in that industry, probably your only option is to take the unpaid internship. After you have completed the internship you can report them to the Department of Labor, or if you are really ballsy you can sue for what you should have been paid.
Microsoft's phone team did react promptly. Probably not many people remember that they were originally planning to ship a "Windows Mobile 7" product which was an evolution of WM6. They axed that and started over, and the result was Windows Phone 7.

They messed up a lot of things both before and after that point (sometime in 2009 I think?), but there was a definite change in course in reaction to where the market was going.
Neal Stephenson's sword-fighting game falls short of post-Kickstarter goals
Furthermore, if Apple did it right, they'd store a hashed reading of the fingerprint, and probably salt that with the device's ID or some private key unique to the device (quite straightforward).

So that would mean that even if someone stole your print (say the stored hash), it wouldn't work without the iPhone. At that point, in order to attack someone's AppStore account with a fingerprint, it becomes 2-factor security... and that "something to have" token can be revoked by remote wipe.
I bet you'd call Zuck "exceptional" but I'd bet he's dead average athletically.
Star Wars Traceroute
Oh, dark. Maybe all the people there beat the system. I have to ask around my office now, see if that was the case.
With OpenCV you can also do face detection and feature recognition for smarter crops. Thumbor does that and is used in a large scale at globo.com: https://github.com/globocom/thumbor.
the max framerate for the go pro is 240fps at WVGA resolution.
The implementation details are pretty interesting: http://beaglenetworks.net/post/42707829171/star-wars-tracero....

Apparently, it's an unused /24.
Since I am in the < 25 years age category, I tend to hit them where it huts the most. Here is what a usual conversation goes like:

Me: You should care about these things.
X: But I have got nothing to hide! I don't care.
(Then I get the look, "Do you have something to hide?")
Me: OK. Since you have nothing to hide, please give me your Facebook password so that I can go through your FB inbox. Also, your Gmail and Skype passwords would be good to have, since you have nothing to hide.

Never fails to work.

I think the issue is that people tend to place certain "trust" with the government and that their information won't be misused and have this notion that the government can't do no wrong. But they tend to forget that there are people in a government.
Comic-based intro to Cassandra
The poem is itself ironic... it's about Ramses III who rule c. 1000 BC and yet was famous enough that poetry would be inspired by him 3000 years later.
Oh, I agree.

"need" may not have been the be the best word to use there. I didn't mean to imply that either needs the other by the strictest sense of the word. I meant it more in the sense of "I need my morning coffee". I don't really need it, but I'd, you know, really, really like to have it.
'It's notable that the MinnowBoard is an open hardware platform, a distinction that Arduino and BeagleBone can claim but Raspberry Pi cannot.'

Nice
Not really, I was expecting "easter eggs" in the kernel itself.

Disappointed to find they are common to any OS running typical common FOSS programs.

In fact, many of these can be seen on Windows if you're using cygwin!

So a far more accurate title would have been "Top 10 FOSS Easter Eggs".