skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thanks! I agree that your product has a huge market for government and other organisations. Our success comes out of a few core things:

- We brought together domain experts as equals, i.e. people working in international development, water and sanitation issues (our starting market), network organisations, computer software and services, computer software marketing and communications, to solve a problem.

- We say our team is a three legged stool. Partner team (more about that below), software team and communications team. If we don't treat all three equally the stool falls over. We go so far that we think it is imperative to not have an organisation run by the tech or the international development side, but by both sides. So we have until know had two directors of the organisation, one from each domain. Working very closely with the comms director.

- Maybe most importantly though, we have a very experienced partner team. They have worked in this market for decades. They know "everyone". We literally have connections to thousands of organisations through our networks and we understand how to talk to those organisations. Our partner team know where all the gremlins are and how the processes work. They know how to get the required startup and expansion investments as well as how to get the big organisations to use our tools.

About the partner team. We don't consider us having any customers. We treat all of the organisations that work with us as partners. They then treat us as partners too and it completely changes the relationship when you are trying to solve a problem. Of course it helps that we are a non-profit foundation. (We are also not-for-loss. We have a functional business model. This is critical.)

In a traditional company our partner team would consist of strategic sales people, account managers, project managers, consultants, trainers etc. We have a partner team that fulfils all those roles, but they are a _partner_ team. Sales are not done on a quota, no bonuses are paid (which often drive really crappy sales in a s/w company) etc.

We have no marketing and PR team. We have a communications team. Most of our staff communicate. Everyone is in fact encouraged and empowered to speak for the organisation. The communications team just supports everyone learning how to communicate well. We hardly do any PR. We may need to increase it, but it mostly does itself based on our peoples open communication.

I could write a lot more, but we are creating the Akvo Handbook, which will outline all of this, and be available under an open content license. You can read it all there then. But don't hesitate to ask any specific questions you may have.
I agree that there are no good answers, and that there is a huge potential for abuse here.
This might be a minor nitpick, but it always bugs me when Ruby on Rails is listed as a language, particularly by people who should know better (developers). There's even a section for frameworks on the site. People searching for code snippets should be able to understand that Ruby is a language and Ruby on Rails is a framework.
You can "print money" by loaning it from the central banks, which individual member states certainly can do. In fact, that's what all EU members are doing.
Anybody who's seen a family with more than one child knows environment isn't the primary determinant of intelligence. I know the blank slate theory is comfortable from a political standpoint, but to quote Orwell, "You have to be an intellectual to believe such nonsense. No ordinary man could be such a fool."
Thanks your your feedback!
Don't be a hater. The UI works very well and is clean and not cluttered.
Then how do you suggest we get people to install solar panels?
Seeing the same thing in Firefox 24.

http://d.pr/i/6uwO
That seems a little sensationalist... It seems a lot more like "hobbyist crashes RC helo in NYC"

see also http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAkq6Ou3M_I
if it makes you feel better on page 7 of the criminal complaint document:

"although Tor has known legitimage uses.."
I see, that seems reasonable then. What happens in the case of reversed payments, though? Chargebacks is the reason you can't buy bitcoin using Paypal, Google Wallet, etc.
Clicking the link, something made me feel I landed on some sort of obscure hacker blog. I wonder what could have caused that!
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Wow it's wired. I got an email from Verizon offering me a cheaper plan within 30 minutes of browsing the plans on straight talk? (And googling to find it)

Any chance there's some crazy cookie tracking magic there? Or just a coincidence?
You are absolutely right! Thanks for the feedback
SC has a lot of deference to the Congress, and will go out of the way to find some convoluted legal language to justify something if it can be justified. So if the Congress and US public will be OK with mass surveillance, SC would not ride in on the white horse and save them from themselves. It would say "it's constitutional because of the precedent in 1834 that says blah blah blah and decision in 1928 that says foo bar bar foo, and you can't really expect privacy when you sending data out anyway, if you want it private, don't send it to nobody".
> Ah, the great features Opera had for ages until they dropped everything. Safari adds them and it's all big news.

Much like everything Apple does, amirite?

> Read a tech magazine

Sounds unlikely.

> recently

Safari Reader debuted in 2010...

> that was so excited about this "amazing and ground-breaking new feature"

I believe you. Really.

> that I wondered if they had ever used Opera before.

Statistically speaking, probably not. Then again, they weren't missing out on much. Unless you like your websites rendered incorrectly.
That analogy would be correct if there would be many, even a majority, of clients that were indeed interested in being greeted and chatting and would seek out the prostitute to obtain that free service only a daily basis. At the same time there would be other clients that were interested in, and would pay for, additional services.
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With respect to version control systems, I notice you didn't mention ENVY. I can't comment on Monticello nor Store, never having used them, but I still miss ENVY. Best version control system I ever used.

Source: professional Smalltalker for about four years (fifteen years ago)
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> How does this compare to OpenID?

It's completely different. You don't need to remember an url, you don't need to remember a password, there is no third party involved in the authentication process, ... I could go on, but it's really a completely different authentication mechanism.
Am I crazy, or was the question posted in March of 2013, and not 2012 like the article states?
How is this better than any other phone-based 2-factor auth scheme?
We at Akvo couldn't do what we do if we just lived of support. We run the software as a service and charge money for it. We have some advantages that makes it possible to do this. But only support wouldn't work for us.
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Not only are you competing for that hackathon's prize, you're competing for the reputation of the entire school. I imagine HackRU will be extra competitive.
"There are many cases of people with no flight training whatsoever being able to successfully take off and fly, but are unable to land."

I would agree with that and this strikes me as the kind of thing that isn't resolved by anecdotes but via someones first five minutes with a PC flight simulator. Anything beyond arcade level.

Some of the more outlandish claims I've read about flying pretty obviously come from people who's shadow has never darkened a keyboard of a PC running MS FS or X-Plane, or even talked to someone who has flown a plane or even played a PC flight sim. I did a ton of PC sim work to wrap my brain around navigation concepts (like the to/from VOR flag, and how approaches "feel" at speed while under cognitive load) and PC flight sims help a lot with nav, but latency combined with lack of feedback and weird controls made it not so useful to replace actual flight time.

As for straight and level that depends on having been properly trimmed, but its really not all that much harder than driving. I don't think an aircraft can be FAA certified if its not stable in at least some axes. I know several exotic research x-planes were not stable in some axes at some parts of the flight envelope and some .mil planes were (are?) not. If a plane is stable, hands off it'll more or less smoothly point to some velocity vector and nose direction (first noob pilot discovery is those two need not be pointed the same way, and almost never are... planes are in an eternal skid, sorta, unlike a car). That 3-d velocity vector might not be where you want, not at all, but it'll smoothly stabilize there unless you adjust the trim tabs.
> SOAP is RPC.

Yes.

> It's fundamentally different.

It's fundamentally different than REST, sure. Its not fundamentally different than "REST" that abandons resource-oriented hypermedia.

> REST is not completely undone just because you want validation.

REST includes a validation model (indeed, its centered around one.)

It is completely undone when you toss that out and replace it with a different one.

> Without a schema or DDL, you're still validating but you're doing it in code.

With a schema or DDL, you are validating in code. It may be code in an external library or tool, but that's just a possibility with any validation model, whether its Schema-based, or Media-type-based (as in REST), or based on something else.
If you want strongly-typed RPC integration with generated clients then something like Thrift, protobuf or Avro are vastly superior. Very simple and lightweight.
The part where they connected his new StackExchange username to information they pulled from the machine image of Silk Road they'd already made in July.

Finding the machine and busting the VPN that connected to it were the real ways they tracked him down. Oh, and of course the Customs and Border patrol seizure of the forged documents he ordered, during a "routine inspection".
That's why I turn off mobile version in my browser.
...a vulnerability that affected near zero actual servers. (I know because I scanned for it shortly after the announcement) Everyone uses FastCGI or mod_php and friends.
Well, that's the problem with dynamic languages, isn't it? The distinction can get a bit blurry.

http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/Array.html vs. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/Array.html

http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0.0/String.html vs. http://api.rubyonrails.org/classes/String.html

etc.
The first time I brought it up in Firefox I didn't see the icons. But maybe it was just a loading delay though because I see them now. Sorry to be a downer!
[Disclosure: I work for CardFlight]

We're still experimenting with different pricing models to figure out what makes the most sense for our clients. We typically pass the hardware expense through at cost and charge an all-inclusive monthly or annual fee per deployed device for the SDK, payment gateway, unlimited transactions, unlimited support, etc.

One upside of using CardFlight is that clients can shop around and pick whichever processor they want for the lowest rates, easiest integration, best service, or whatever reason they wish, while using the CardFlight SDK for an easy technical integration. Our clients/developers can even work with multiple processors in parallel, or switch processors down the track without having to rebuild their back end.
This sounds like incidental corroborative evidence. It hardly seems like it was what "brought down" the site, as claimed by the linked.

The site was likely brought down because the FBI or others found the server and took an image of it, and everything else seems to be backtracking corroboration from that. How did they find the server? Well therein lies the mystery, and it is likely because the FBI and other three letter agencies have a very strong interest in Tor, almost certainly having thousands of nodes that can statistically winnow down to real IPs.
Told by who?
Doing AV right is hard! You can devote your whole career to learning how to do AV well, and I have a ton of respect for the skills of the people that choose this path. It's a lot more than plugging in a microphone.

We do try to improve AV with every Devshop, and we have recently started to bring in AV professionals to help. But honestly, pre-1.0, I think it's way more appropriate for us to be spending our time and money on advancing the framework than on super slick video presentations. In many ways it's more like the Meteor community's time and money.
I was very excited about phones until my experience with the GNex. I was hoping VZW and Moto would be able to push out a decent Droid(w / QWERTY slider) but I don't think that is going to happen. There is nothing on the market today that I want to use.

I've even come close to getting an iPhone a couple times; even though I know it doesn't suit my life or workflow very well. I just want my phone to be useable!
That was my first lesson in validating any external input. Learned the hard way, in my first six months of building websites professionally. Happily, the hosting provider put me onto a helpful tech guy who walked me through what I'd done and how to avoid it. There was a lot less 'common knowledge' and 'everyone knows' in 2001.
Grr, no no no.

Whoever designed this is nuts...that black ajaxy loading screen crap on every page load is incredibly rage inducing.
Don't forget the trophy too. Whatever school has the most points at the end of the season gets to keep it.

http://mlh.io/img/trophy/4.jpg
http://mlh.io/img/trophy/5.jpg
We will only include payment processors that don't allow chargebacks, such as OKPay or WebMoney
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A single bouncing circle on a rectangle doesn't count as a benchmark in my opinion. Flash can be written in a performant manner, it used to be faster than HTML for almost everything, but that gap has narrowed for some specific things.

Most of all though, in my experience, Flash is usually more consistent across browsers and operating systems. Even if it's slower than the fastest browser, it's at least consistently slower.

When dealing with the desktop and/or applications on mobile devices that support AIR (i.e. supported runtimes), graphics rendering isn't an issue anymore. If you are really stuck with poor graphics performance using the traditional methods, you can just leverage Stage3D, which is just like WebGL, except it has a compatibility layer and is constrained in some ways, which can potentially make it more compatible with different underlying architectures and across more GPUs.

Going back to benchmarks though, I believe that 95% (pulled out of my behindus) of benchmarks have poorly written code / code that could be optimized to run an order of magnitude faster, so I won't engage in a benchmark fling-fest. I can at least link a few minor tests I made a while ago where I encountered the above mentioned inconsistency issues:

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Av4YDog3VfA-dHI...
Not exactly a new idea. Here is some prior art

http://openaccess.uoc.edu/webapps/o2/bitstream/10609/14761/6...

http://www.computer.org/csdl/proceedings/ares/2009/3564/00/3...

As far as I know, QR-TAN is being used in Germany for authentication by a number of banks.
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Well, it's not really 2-factor is it? It's just the phone part of a 2-factor login and no web form part. Presumably the screen shot that showed a login form was for people without the phone app.
You are correct. I hadn't noticed that change.
US tech companies have begun to lose oversea businesses, this will only get worse.
This page isn't rendering correctly, text is overlapping with images. Good job NYT.

I'm on Firefox, btw.
I consider Mockito (a java library) to have a great API. Only your 3) applies to it.
You mean the page loader? Sorry to hear about that :(
We don't know that any "parallel construction" is at work here. It seems like most of the information stemmed from the discovery of the Silk Road web server, and I haven't seen how they were able to determine that. If this goes to trial, then the FBI will have to say how it got that information (assuming he has a competent defense team).
The updates to Android in 4.1+ have made the GNex slower and less able to function as a proper device.

I've rooted and installed a few different ROMs, but there is never a fix for crap hardware and limited RAM. The NAND seems to be a real source of problems as well.
That guy invented one of the most revolutionary ways of looking at things on the internet.

With a green and black blog without any css3, what right does he have to comment on design?!
Yes, they're entirely competent and following exactly the YC/HN mantra: "make something everybody hates".

Never mind "understanding the series of decisions that led us to such an experience". Look at the outcome, for crying out loud.

Nothing else matters.
So many things in this response come across as terribly condescending and dismissive.

The companies assert that the secrecy requirements
apply only to particular surveillance targets.
But that implausible reading ignores the forest
for the trees.
It's not - it's really just a password manager. The "something I know and something I have" is completely removed by only requiring you to have the phone. If it's a password manager, then that is what it is; if it's meant for security, then it comes back to the recent article on fingerprints not being a password.
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Assuming it wasn't a sting.
When I read "youtube of code" I was expecting video recordings of developers coding sessions :P. But the current form works too.
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Yeah I've written that code a bunch of times. A real pain in the butt to get right and to test.
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Anyone who can rationalise their behaviour as not really being theft, or not really being rape, or not really being whatever, they will go free.

And anyone who wishes they could change the last words they said to a friend or relative before they unexpectedly died, they will be jailed.
I have been facinated by Smalltalk but the language drives my kinda crazy. I have read the 'Blue book' (http://wiki.squeak.org/squeak/64) and tried Pharo (http://www.pharo-project.org/home), Amber (http://amber-lang.net/) and GNU Smalltalk.

While I really like Smalltalk, for some reason it does not work for me as a web development platform (and the web is my platform), or maybe I just don't grasp it.

I tried Seaside (http://www.seaside.st/) but the URLs it generates are not acceptable (unfortunately) and I find their component system quite complex. I hope someday I will find way to use the techniques behind Smalltalk (live environment, object model) in a browser or web environment. Maybe Amber will develop into something I can work with. I really hope so. Any suggestions anyone?
This looks amazing for people who want to install and maintain their database client as a webapp on their production database server.
Founder of the Silk Road arrested by the FBI made basic mistakes
I believe the installer packages bundle a JRE (which runs in isolation from your other Java installations) so that shouldn't be a problem.

Only the cross-platform archive assumes you have a Java (6+) installed. Off the top of my head I can't remember if backporting to 5 would be a possibility but considering that Java 5 is almost ten years old, it may be too much effort to be worth it.

The source code isn't public anymore than my dirty underwear is :) Seriously though, I might open source it if I thought anyone would be able to get anything out of it.
You can't make any modifications for it to be admissible in court. This includes logging into a live server to take an image, or 'fixing' errors introduced during the copy.

Professional forensic investigators have what are called 'write blockers' that prevent all writes when drives are plugged in to be imaged.
Correct. I recommend https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iceweasel#History_and_origin_o... for more information. Please note this:

The artwork in Firefox had a proprietary copyright license.

As for the license:

The rebranded programs are available under Mozilla's
standard MPL/GPL/LGPL tri-license. Like Mozilla, the
default icons are under the same tri-license, but unlike
Mozilla, there are no trademark restrictions.
So most type checking, especially in how people write pre- and post-checks, is of the form "is this an X", for example, "is this object an instance of the String class". In duck-typed languages, that's not good enough, because you're not passing an instance of a subclass of a string, you're passing "something that quacks like a string" (aka implements the necessary interfaces to act string-like).

So the type of an object in a duck-typed language is based on the functions and fields it has _now_, not its instance type. Since there is no name for that type, you cannot do "nominal" typing. Instead, you must use "structural" typing, which checks its structure. This is exactly what Typed Clojure does.

An example of how that works in practice, is you say that the 2nd parameter must be a map with one of the following configurations: a key named :foo and a key named :bar, both mapping to strings, or a key named :error, mapping to a string.
I always err on the side of "it's a spoiler". If it's not in the show's trailer, I treat it like a spoiler.

I know that I'm personally much more sensitive to spoilers than a lot of other people, so it always annoys me how somebody says something thinking they're not spoiling anything without fully thinking through the implications of what it is they're saying. It's almost arrogance, really, to simply assume that you know what will and will not spoil some given experience for another person.
This is like saying nana nana boo boo stick your head in doo doo. You can't run an illegal business and then vehemently flaunt it to a major news publication that gets read around the world essentially saying that your smarter than the government won't end well for anyone.
Not directly, but if you have a router that runs linux (or has an equiv. to /etc/hosts) you can filter them at the router level.
I read the motions and now this response and somehow it resembles a show for the public. Big tech picked a minor surveillance issue of FISA orders statistics and conveyed their care for user privacy. Government respectfully denied and conveyed its resolve in fighting terrorism.

But none of those PRISM companies took part in public protests and none of them supported Mozilla's initiative to reveal the NSA unlawful surveillance practices [1].

[1] https://stopwatching.us
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So.. stay with the shit model forever? Good idea! NaCl is part of an effort to fix all this bullshit, and it's at least sort of going in the right direction.
> Still, using Python to pay the bills isn't so bad...

Well, and pdb isn't bad.