skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There isn't one (except I'm sure someone's going to pop up here and say flash).

So the only alternative is something that's been pre-composited down to pixels for you, probably in a png.
Writing a Simple Web Spider Using Command Line Tools in Linux
FWIW, how true that is does depend where you are.

Here in the EU, the CJEU rejected the 'it's only a licence' argument and characterised software downloads (that aren't explicitly limited to a fixed length of time) as normal sales, in Oracle v Usedsoft -- in particular, they're sales for the purposes of the First Sale Doctrine. So I could buy your app, use it, then extract the apk and sell it on to someone else, and you couldn't sue me for copyright infringement (as long as I remove the apk from my own phone, of course). (IANAL).

I'm not familiar with US law but my impression is that, on the whole, most states' legal systems are a whole lot less consumer-friendly than the EU, so presumably the same is not true over there.
The article is very weak on substance, but I imagine the encoded possibilities of heavy computation based parallel stream. The obvious challenges are timing/synchronization and additional processing based power consumption.
Government is shutting down ... now what?
F-Secure have been selling locked down rebranded dropbox clones for some time now; it's a little ironic to be all 'we believe in freedom' suddenly.

(For example, a typical custom client would let you 'backup' your content from one device to the the cloud. No sharing, no multi-device sync, can't backup those video files because those might be infringing some kind of copyright).
"more powerful, more stable"
Assuming you're comparing to Windows, in what ways more powerful and more stable?

I've used various versions of Linux and Windows, and in my experience Linux is great to use, until something breaks and you want to refresh that component. When I first started using it around 2005 it was network issues (luckily things are much improved now), when I use it now I most frequently have issues with sound. On the other hand, Windows might not be as nice a development environment, but at least you can rely on the drivers (for the most part).
Where's the linux client?
Ask HN: Adsense Backup Ads - Which Provider
I guess a lot of people here use Adsense, but without and Backup Ads settings.

Which Affiliate, Marketer, Retargeter do you guys recommend for https://support.google.com/adsense/answer/113262?hl=en
I highly doubt this is a serious product google will be pursuing. looks like a low level offering for developing countries/markets
Well, their USP (unique selling proposition) is that they are secure and that they respect your privacy.

From a functional/feature point of view, F-Secure's "Dropbox" is probably identical to their competitors'. Can "Fun" be objectively assessed? I doubt it. It's just confusing when you start off with important features such as security & privacy.

Why do I feel they cheapened that proposition by throwing in "Fun"?
Are you sure that the Google authentication token(s) sent over HTTP can actually be used to perform sensitive actions (e.g. reading/sending mail, changing settings)?

That is, perhaps Google require an HTTPS-only token for sensitive actions and the authentication token sent over HTTP is only used for basic personalization (like showing your username) and some unimportant actions?

Though I guess we know that someone who has stolen your HTTP authentication token could ask embarrassing baraza questions on your behalf ...
A lot of website use appeals when it has a local flavor. Quora and it's Silicon Valley answerers probably doesn't know how to answer the questions that many Non-US citizens might have. This has a lot to do with user base, and I don't see Quora marketing itself outside of America.
I interned in a french company a couple years ago, and was surprised to discover what the company's computer setup was. You had the usual windows XP, but you couldn't install anything on it: they had this system where you had to call IT, tell them what software you wanted, then they would deploy it to your computer. They would also do nightly backups of your systems, and all that jazz. Half of the time, it didn't work, so you had to call IT and they'd come troubleshoot. All in all, I have no trouble believing that factoring in the IT support behemoth and, the TCO was vastly more that $1000.
No, they were market failures in the US, they've been doing well in Asia especially (as have big Android phones), see my link elsewhere in this thread. This is not particularly unusual, e.g. Xbox vs Playstation sales mix varies by region. And South Korea, Japan and China are now important markets for Android games companies.

The "opposite is true" means that it's fairly clear now that the US subsidization model hides the cost differences between phones, and puts an effective floor on prices for handsets, which favors iPhones because they are designed around the American price system.

This effect is much less strong or non-existant elsewhere on the planet and Android benefits from the ability to compete fairly on price. Android tablets have followed the same pattern that Android phones followed in these less distorted markets, though slightly faster since Android phones have already created a beachhead.
Who the hell is a "foreigner" on the internet?
There's a lot of hate bouncing around here for Jenkins. Can we stop for a moment and remember what it meant to set up a build system before Jenkins was around? Sure, it's not rocket science, but Jenkins made things quite a lot easier and made continue integration actually possible to think about for many shops. It's no small feat that they managed to do this for n revision control systems * m languages with associated build systems and testing frameworks * q random options and make it still mostly work.

Jenkins moved the minimum acceptable level of automation, for the industry, up quite a lot farther than it used to be. Say what you will but remember its impact, and that the guy who made it is quite possibly reading this thread.
Spectrum? You youngsters had it easy. I cut my teeth on a ZX81.
Growing your Small Business
Can't help feeling that this domain is just there to glean traffic from stackoverflow.com. I would have said such attempts were likely to be a bit self-defeating with the high-tech community the way it is.
I've been playing around with a 1020 for a few days, that article is really lame.

That first picture is showing it with the weird camera case accessory, you wouldn't normally carry the phone around with that attached. It looks just like it does in the ads in person. It fits my pocket fine (less awkward than the 'chin' on some Androids) and the weight and balance are comfortable for reading and making phone calls. I never got on the "shitty screens with crazy high DPI" bandwagon so I'm satisfied with 330ppi OLED. I'm not gonna give up OLED to get another 200ppi.

The slow cycle time is annoying but I've gotten used to it as a standard issue with cameraphones, it's not much worse than others I've used. There's a burst mode app so the lag doesn't affect your ability to do action photos. The 5MP downsample is a feature, you wouldn't normally use a photo bigger than that for small-screen display, and the non-downsampled image is still saved for printing or crops (there is a nice in-camera crop tool that adjusts the area the image is cropped from).

Honestly the biggest issue I had was that there isn't a light meter or exposure preview so it's hard to do manual exposure control when taking flash-less photos in very dark settings that have lights in the background. The multiple camera apps are an odd choice but not actually an issue in practice.
Do you think a secured chat solution using WebRTC, can fall short from this?
To me, I actually see this as Google crowdsourcing the data necessary to have "answers" appear rather than search results for those things that make sense to.
These problems are much less important when you use it inside an organization, with a support department and hardware certification.
The "probability" return value appears to be a straight average; it returns 1 for "Peter", which is almost guaranteed to be incorrect - all it takes is a single female Peter, anywhere on the planet.

A better approach, in the absence of more complex models, would be to use Laplace's sunrise formula.
Please just don't.

There is no point antagonising people by guessing information about them wrongly - particularly if it's something they've become sensitised to by it occurring frequently.

If you need to know someone's gender (and largely, you don't), then ask them.
Apparently, for the US, the right to free speech only applies to US people, not the world.

Same as with the right not to be spied upon, really. Sad...
Princeton Sues Princeton for a Share of Its Patent Millions
Well, not being under US jurisdiction helps a bunch. Finland has no (publicly known) questionable ties to US based or other intelligence services.

The problem, of course, is that the international data cables to/from Finland go through Russia and Sweden. The former probably has no legal obstacles inspecting all web traffic and the latter is a known partner with the US/NSA in data inspection/gathering.

I think there is a huge opportunity for a more secure cloud storage application with stringent design that provides no access to the data to the organization providing the service. Unfortunately F-Secure did not implement this, but instead created a service that provides 'automatic virus inspection for your files'. That is just too close to 'automatic general inspection of your files' for my taste.
I was thinking about why I'm here, reading this "was it not for the content", overly-long and boring thread:

I gain something from these posts, as these are experiences of real people.
Why is any procrastinator here, reading, rather than doing something that should be done? Why do certain news titles or content seem more interesting than others. I skimmed some titles and noticed that some words grabbed my attention more than others. Thinking on these words let me remember exciting things that I had done before. They have a strong (emotional) fingerprint in my memory. But then again, why did I do those things in the first place? Maybe they were brought out in a setting that already made me feel good, and thus there was no friction sliding in to the work that, in turn, left me with the memory.

Could these prehaps be combined to something resembling self-triggered strong drive to accomplish a task?

I don't know. Maybe this is stupid and obvious, but I though to share, maybe it'll spark something.
we will definitely start to see more and more stories like this around the world. obviously not in the US.
I'm sure this is interesting from a statistical point of view, but does the tech scene really need yet more reinforcement of a binary view of gender?
I'm definitely a lark, but I've yet to determine my unladen flight speed vs. my flight speed when carrying a coconut. It seems most of those tests have been performed on swallows.
Thank you this. I didn't know about this feature. I'm glad my wife could now get access to all of my email, contacts and photos once I'm gone.
While cryptography does teach us that some methods are weak against such attacks, but since they are using asymmetric crypto, that means each of my messages would be encypted with the RECIPIENT's public key. thus you really dont know WHICH messages are encrypted with teh same key. thus you can't apply such an attack.

PS: i think asymmetric crypto is secure from such attacks anyways, though isn't that way slower than symmetric crypto?
2013: Year of linux on the desktop!
Stability depends a lot on the distribution you use.

I've used various Linux distos over the last 10+ years. If you use something like Slackware, it is rock solid. I still have some 5+ year old installs that simply just work. However, distributions that update/upgrade and install software automatically have lower stability as more people are involved in creating packages, and not of all of them are skilled or careful enough. Packages are often patched versions of vanilla software and sometimes the patch was just wrong because it does not sync well with some other installed software. I still recall major mess by Ubuntu and Fedora and their derivatives at many points in the past.
It's not configuring jenkins that's the problem. It's all scripts it requires, build, testing, packing, deployment scripts and whatever else you want to automate.

In general trying to automate things, brings all the workflow problems out to forefront to be fixed. It makes thinking clearer.
I'm not even sure if free speech even applies to us Americans anymore, since immigration and the ability to board a plane to/from the states seems to not fall under any constitutional rights.
Q3: Is it supported by a company I can trust?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Totalitarianism
Are people still surprised ?
The USA is definitely not a state of freedom.
I'm thinking that perhaps the temporary (but lengthy) period in which the iPhone was the most popular phone was, for the most part, an aberration.

Apple generally just does it's thing where it doesn't go for the largest market share, but because they were unusually innovative/lucky with the iPhone, they had a period of popularity. The fact that the iPhone 5C isn't the cheap phone we expected seems to confirm this.

It seems quite possible that things are 'normalizing' again, and Apple will end up comfortably occupying a big chunk of the high-end space. Maybe they're trying to come up with another killer product category to dominate in, but I wouldn't be surprised if internally this isn't and hasn't ever been their goal.

Now, investors might feel different, of course, and I find that interesting to observe.
Advice is always helpful, especially from someone who has been owlish and found a way to change.

I go through phases of being happy with it and not, guess we'll see if/when I get annoyed enough to have another go at 'fixing' it.
> There is another possibility. You were never really an owl.

Entirely possible :) I find the possibility intriguing, because when I was living the "owl" life you'd never have been able to persuade me that I wasn't actually an owl, especially because I'd tried and failed so many times to get change my sleep patterns before it finally clicked. It does make me wonder how many other people out there are like me in that regard.

For me, personally, it really highlighted how little you know about your own body compared to what you think you know, which is completely contrary to what I would've expected and very interesting to me.
> Anybody can open up a browser and immediately start playing around with Javascript.

Tell me, if you were looking to teach people to write Java code for web applications (I know, perish the thought!), would you start them off writing applets?

> You simply can't say the same for Java, C, C++, or assembly--frameworks and the other nonsense notwithstanding.

Oh... I don't know if you can really say that. http://www.javarepl.com/console.html

;-)

Your statement about the ubiquity of JavaScript runtimes is really JavaScript's strongest feature IMHO, but I don't think it is terribly compelling in terms of developer accessibility. You could make something like that argument could say something pretty similar in support of DOS shell, PowerShell, AppleScript, VBScript, VSMacros, XSL, but no one would ever think that a defensible argument for them. Sure you want accessibility, but I think it's okay to suggest that a one click install not be outside the grasp or patience of a developer on their way to writing for distributed device systems... ;-) The difference between "open your browser and now start to learn this language" and "open your browser to download and install this app so you can start learning this language" shouldn't separate anyone who was going to make it in the first place.
Even as a twenty something... I have to agree with your statement. At the end of the day its still a business.
I like the idea. I like the idea that the app is device agnostic. I especially like the idea that the data is private.

However I can't see any information to back the privacy claim:

- Is the data encrypted on the client so that F-Secure (and the NSA / GCHQ / <Insert Orwellian agency here>) cannot access my data?

- Are the servers outside the United States?

- Is the corporation outside the United States?

I'm guessing the answer to all the above questions is 'no'.
My attempt at a good translation:

NSA critic Ilija Trojanow: German writer not allowed to enter US

Despite an invitation to a conference, german writer Ilija Trojanow was denied entry to the US - without reasoning. In the past, Trojanow signed a petition of protest against NSA surveillance.

Hamburg - Writer Juli Zeh broke the news: Through Facebook, she passed on a message from her college Ilija Trojanow. According to it, Trojanow was denied entry into the US. "He's marrooned at the airport in Brasil and can't participate in a conference on german studies in the US", said Zeh.

Ilija Trojanows' publisher Hanser confirmed this account upon request from Spiegel Online. Trojanows reported monday evening via SMS from Brasil "I was denied entry into the US today. Will be an arduous journey home".

Juli Zeh linked the denial of entry with a protest against NSA surveillance she initiated. Zeh presented the german chancellery a petition with 65000 signatures on september 18.

Trojanow was not present at the presentation, but he was one of the first signees, the Schöffling publisher coordinators told Spiegel Online. The writers alluded to a "historic attack on our democratic state under the rule of law".

"Let's frame it in a positive light: Our commitment makes an impact. It is being noticed", writes Zeh on Facebook on the entry ban to her "friend and fellow activist". Zeh and Trojanow wrote a non-fiction book on internet surveillance called "attack on freedom" in 2009. Zeh continues: "Let's frame in a negative light: it's a farce. Pure paranoia. People sticking up for civil liberties are treated like public enemies". In the comments on her posting Zeh emphasizes that Trojanows' ESTA application was answered positively, so in her opinion there can't be a problem with his visa or a work permit issue.

Ilija Trojanow, born 1965 in Bulgaria and escaped to Germany in 1971, received the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2006 for his adventure novel "Der Weltensammler" (The Collector of Worlds). He held a honorific speech for nobel laureate Herta Müller at the Franz-Werfel human rights award. He was in Salvador de Bahia on invitation from the Goethe institute. He was supposed to talk about his latest novel "EisTau" (IceDew) on a conference of the German Studies Association in Denver.

(Edit: congress -> conference)
Google and Europe Near Deal
"We welcome other clouds."

Does anyone else loath the overuse/misuse of "cloud" by marketing departments?
Dutch startup uses its technology to connect to NGO work in S.E.Asia
Prison education cuts recidivism and improves employment, study finds
I wonder if Windows 8 will be accelerating this kind of thing. The metro UI is so annoying, useless and unsuitable in a corporate environment, it finally provides a climate where even people who like Windows are happier with Ubuntu than they are with Windows 8.
Chewing mine always made the RAM-pack wobble, and the machine crash ;)
On the bottom of the front page, they somewhat answer your second and third question.

> Younited is created and hosted by F-Secure in Finland. We believe in people’s right to privacy.
No spying. No backdoors.
Since when is 80% increase "doubling"?

Still, getting close to 10% of market share is really a "massive achievement". I did not expect that. I wonder what was the main reason for people to buy it. I mean, if you're not a programmer/developer and you enter the store and see Lumia, SGS4 and iPhone4/5, how does the average customer select?
Responsive Design at The Guardian [slides]
For what it is worth this is one of the upcoming stretch goals:

nRF24 – low power wireless communication with mesh capabilities (good for tying lots of Tessels together without WiFi)

So one Tessel can be the web server to connect a cluster of Tessels communicating via nRF24 to the web. Or you could use one Tessel as the router to connect a bunch of nRF24 Arduino devices to the web.
Think outside the box. This has many other use cases.
For the last 2:

"Younited is created and hosted by F-Secure in Finland."
Interesting from a machine-learning perspective - but this strikes me as a solution looking for a problem.

If any service needs to know gender (and I'm having a hard time thinking of times you NEED to know gender - dating sites?) - why not just ask? surely in a situation where you're reliant on having accurate gender information, guessing from $firstname and getting it wrong is worse than asking.
Or alternatively... Firefox fail was previously wasting gigabytes of memory on image-heavy pages
Didn't it have something to do with cars and carpets?
The value prop of catastrophic health insurance never fully made sense to me - if I need it, then I am in bad shape, and whether I would have to go bankrupt to pay for it or pay through some insurance is not super important. Seems likely that if all I have is catastrophic coverage, I am going to go bankrupt after the fact anyway because of the long term effects of whatever landed me in that place (those plans do not cover much).
No, I'm not sure and your questions are valid. But wouldn't you be happier if they used https and the questions wouldn't have to be asked in the first place?

This practice of having a website respond to both http and https simply has to die. Google is not the only offender here, but I expected more from them, because they are very security sensitive.

Google, next time you accuse Chinese of hacking you, reconsider your practices.
Domain ID:D104182029-LROR
Domain Name:STACKOVERFLOW.ORG
Created On:01-Apr-2004 22:50:27 UTC
Last Updated On:06-Jul-2013 19:52:59 UTC
Expiration Date:01-Apr-2014 22:50:27 UTC

StackOverflow.com was ``created in 2008 by Jeff Atwood and Joel Spolsky'',[1] so I think it's probably just a coincidence.[2]

Besides, what possible benefit does Brian, author of the .ORG, get from gleaning traffic from .COM? He has no ads, isn't trying to sell anything, and isn't offering a competing service...

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stack_Overflow

[2]: Or a trip in a time machine being totally squandered.
What's Up with Comet ISON
Google's European antitrust fight - Second time around
Thanks! Glad you like it, and thanks for thorough feedback.
1.Yeah. App lists currencies based on where you are and use timezone to determine location, iPhones usually get that from the cell towers and it's specific enough to determine current country without roaming or using GPS. 2. Might add that in a future version. 3. Quick jump menu (bottom right) might help there. 4. Area can be activated under 'Converted' in iOS settings app. Also looking into adding more categories that makes sense for this interface. 5. Tap on status bar scrolls to top. Thanks again!
Lego Calendar syncs with Google Calendar
We still have free-speech zones in America. So free-speech in those areas also as the police say it is ok and you are willing to be locked in a cage.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_speech_zone
it's not "The Congress" as in "The American Congress" but rather "a congress" as in "a meetup of people interested in german studies". Still bad, but a different thing.
Why not just ask? More form fields means less conversions. Using the service one can ask for the gender later during the registration process only if confidence in the sex detection is lower then a defined threshold.
It was a conference. Not the Congress. (Google translation artifact).

Nevertheless very alarming.
Cool project! And even cooler to think that startups are not established companies that can easily afford the time to be involved in such big projects! This startup is based in Amsterdam. I have created a photo book from my FB photos.