skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
They shouldn't be choosing to rank mug shots highly. They should be following algorithms that return results that people want.

On the second part, sure, they could decide mugshot sites are not eligible for AdWords, but it's not great to have Google deciding who can make advertising money. OTOH, they're already doing this so I suppose they could take some sort of ethical stance here.
> At times, I was tempted to hand them back their measly $60 and snatch the pipe from their hands and say, “You don't have to live this way.”

That's a lot of condescension coming from the guy who thought he would look like a "suave gangster" while performing door to door pot deliveries.
I know the suggestion for Katy Perry on Netflix was dead on. The irony is that there is nothing more that I hate than Katy Perry.
I buy individual dividend stocks that I think are undervalued. I've (slightly) beaten the S&P 500 since I started investing.

In other words, I don't think you have to be a professional investor or buy index funds to do well in the stock market.
I don't know what to tell you here, given that the whole premise of my comment was to separate the Russian people from the Russian government.
Those must be Europeans from countries that were not occupied by the Soviets.
Shallow, SEO-stuffed summary of CNET and the Arduino post.

http://blog.arduino.cc/2013/10/03/a-sneak-preview-of-arduino...

http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57606189-76/heads-up-intel...
You're sort of missing the point of the Olympic Games if you think countries should be using boycotts of them as a vehicle for public policy. Part of the premise of the games is that the participating countries disagree, sometimes violently, and yet we have the games peacefully anyways.
Unlike most commenters, I think Greenwald is giving very evasive answers to perfectly legitimate questions. Any operational details about the NSA could plausibly be useful those who are trying to evade surveillance. To me the correct answer is that yes, some details could help terrorists, but only minimally so, and that needs to be balanced against the right of citizens in a democracy to understand what their government is doing. Instead, Greenwald stakes out a completely untenable position that "not one line...could even possibly be said to damage national security."

After he says this, the interviewer brings up the specific detail of metadata collection. Now maybe knowledge that the NSA uses metadata will have little impact on terrorist operations or maybe it will have a lot, or maybe none. I don't know. But if I wanted to know, I'd ask someone who had "very carefully" thought about the national security implications of that publication. Instead, that person changes the subject to other surveillance tools and then says that of course terrorists knew they were being monitored, but with no mention of metadata. That's it? I'd certainly hope that the very careful consideration of national security was more thoughtful than that answer.

It's obvious that Greenwald would rather talk about privacy than national security implications, but even he admits that national security is relevant with his "not one line" comment. He can't have it both ways by claiming that there's no harm to national security, but then treating any question for details as an insult. I see on Wikipedia that he complained that this interview focused "almost entirely on the process questions" but I see that as a natural course for the interviewer to take given his refusal to answer such questions.
I really appreciate that the documentation includes a comparison to other libraries in this space, like Guzzle.

Is there anything special to consider when using it with the Laravel framework?
I'd agree, but as a university it was all we had. It was better than the alternative of 1 or 10GigE.
I don't know if you're being serious or not. If that's true, it's horrible on many levels, perhaps the most bothersome being holding up the UI while waiting for a network service. (Though tracking DVR usage at that granularity is annoying in its own right.)
The thing that's especially repugnant is how the money changers can collude to do deny access to the financial system based on their arbitrary morals. Companies that collect payments should not be able to stand in for a court in determining if the activities of their clients are lawful or allowable.

Though the mugshot stuff is kind of lame, too. Taking care of it might be as simple as not making the record public unless there's a plea or guilty verdict.
It's not so much that you're hating on Google (it's a message board, who cares?) so much as that the specific vector of your distaste for Google was so orthogonal to what 'DannyBee was talking about.
> Java needs a quite heavyweight runtime to be installed, that imposes quite a bit of startup overhead.

One can always use one of the commercial native compilers for Java, any of them can easily produce static binaries with fast startup times.

Don't measure Java the language, by Oracle JVM the implementation.
Definitely. I spent a lot of time at looking at code for microcontroller projects, Arduinos, AVR, STM32. For some people with experience they may take a weekend or two, but for someone who learns by reading code it's the building blocks of your career and success(or future success in my case ;).
You'd be surprised how many educated Europeans don't qualify themselves as "Europeans" ;)

There's a big difference between countries in Europe and their views on the world. I'm pretty convinced countries more envelopped in realpolitik will have people less convinced of your equivalence.
Only because it has Google as the Goodfather, otherwise no one would care about Go.
Fair question. ETV was certainly more controlled during the Derg regime since it was an openly totalitarian government. That's not to say that this current regime doesn't have a tight grip on ETV although it sounds like you're already well aware of that.
I may be wrong but isn't this very limited unless other major browsers adopt it?

I hope Mozilla doesn't cave to their corporate sponsor, and MS will not do just to hurt Google.
Why “Checking the Boxes” Doesn’t Work for Hiring or Promoting
s/Java/Enterprise/g
Whilst the link to linkchecker @ sourceforge still works, they have moved the project to GitHub.

Perhaps checking for a recent last-modified date together with a large relative change in size would suffice for this situation.
What are you going to do with your life?[vimeo from Web Rebels Conf]
This has serious implications for our entire legal system.
http://www.pogo.org/blog/2013/09/the-supreme-court-has-a-ser...
What is wrong with spaces in URLs?
A line from a real code (a library):

"* ^^"._? #> (a.!?(1, Get())) must be_==(Full(Answer(1))) ?~! eventually

It is very short, most of the people would implement the same thing using 5-10 lines of code. I prefer 5-10 lines of code over regex-like syntax.
It's not really proven that Russian government murders journalists. Though. Which is the whole premise of my comment.
I really like the concept of building apps out of widgets connected by broadcast events. It reminds me of meemoo (http://meemoo.org/).
Thanks for the video. I ended up watching the whole thing. My interpretation is a little different than yours: I think George is saying that there's no point in having a key longer that 56 bits given that the goal is 56 bits of security, but he's vague about where the requirement for 56 bits of security came from. In any case, the video certainly supports my larger point that the idea that NSA would sabotage a crypto standard was mainstream within crypto circles, even in the '70s.
Much more features. If I try to use Vimium, it feels like Sublime's vim mode compared to the Emacs' evil-mode...
I thought this was well known, the "cookie" is known as RLZ

> http://blog.chromium.org/2010/06/in-open-for-rlz.html

RLZ gives us the ability to accurately measure the success of marketing promotions and distribution partnerships in order to meet our contractual and financial obligations. It assigns non-unique, non-personally identifiable promotion tracking labels to client products
Funny, where in the ANSI C++ standard is the entry for AVX/SSE2?
As little faith I have in the FISC to hit back as much as it should, I still trust it more than Putin's kangaroo courts. So no, it's not the same.

Rule of law is still a thing that exists, and courts play a part of it.
So the last hurdle to Linux adoption is crapware.
9% Have Considered Quitting Their U.S. Citizenship
Can Firefox (OS X) handle it?
JSHint new UI
Yes, I think archive.is is a better one of the two. From the developer's blog:

"- How long my snapshot will be stored? I have in mind the case when it has not been accessed for a long time.

- Forever.

Although the snapshot may be deleted if it violates the rules of the hosting provider (for example, if the page contains pornography or used as the landing page for spam campaigns)."

" - For how long will this website and the archives be available, how many people maintain this project?Thank you.

- Forever. Actually, I think, in 3-5-10 years all the content of the archive (it is only ~20Tb) could fit in a mobile phone memory, so anyone will be able to have a synchronized copy of the full archive. So my “forever” is not a joke.

Two persons, currently."

http://blog.archive.is/

However, peeep.us exists since 2009, and a couple of my snapshots from 2010 are still alive (I definitely didn't access them once a month, maybe once a year at most).
A new search engine that gets better results by considering which other pages link to a page, using what anchor text, rather than simply the text on the target page.
Ill look what i can do about email that nothing is found. About open sourcing this project, well im not yet sure what will i do with it...it was just weekend project created by me cause i needed it for my personal use, we will see, maybe ill open source it i coming days
Europe is not a homogeneous ball within which everyone acts the same.
+1 for honesty. It's not it wasn't an open secret anyway
OSS as a remedy? Won't help.

https://freedom-to-tinker.com/blog/kroll/software-transparen...
Tor by USA, Internet drug market and bitcoin; entire shutdown was scripted
Read the article. This is the same thing as the IDFA but on the Chrome browser. Pretty sure you'll be able to reset its value or turn it off entirely.

Most advertisers don't want to reach you if you don't want to be reached.
Democracy fundamentally relies on freedom of expression: being able to discuss problems, to organize protests, to resolve issues (like corrupt politicians).

If you conduct mass surveillance (as does the NSA, the brits and apparently many others too), then people will refrain from expressing themselves freely, out of fear of blowback. Problems will not be discussed anymore, solutions will not be proposed and corruption will flourish. That's the end of democracy.

Usually, schools teach these basics.
Not to mention he mocks them for not making huge live changing moves during the small time frame that he actually knew them, and that he actually thinks these clients weren't just casually lying to some kid who brings them their weed.
Perhaps that is the point of the games from the original organizers' perspective but it certainly isn't the true goal of the present organizers. I do not share your view and consider it fine for someone to advocate for a boycott.

If the games were to be held in North Korea then this would be morally reprehensible in my view. Such an evil regime should not be rewarded with hosting them. Russia does not rise to the level of barbarity of North Korea, clearly. But I think a compelling argument can be made that it is morally wrong to hold them in Russia (and the U.S. too).
Weren't there games held in Nazi Germany?
But they did, and it's what Obama and the American people wanted (stay out of Syria, nullify their chemical weapons), so how is that a diplomatic defeat when the US President and people get exactly what they wanted? And simultaneously with Iran warming relations with the US even.

Perhaps you were hoping for the US to totally and completely control the entire process, and be able to take all credit? Seems a little greedy in the context of a diplomatic negotiation.
Great post. I wanted to pass along the tool rapportive, which is a built-in email address validator for Gmail with social feeds. It's a killer free tool that no sales team should omit.

Chrome web store link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/rapportive/hihakjf...
My mistake. But they are trivial to correlate and I would expect them to be correlated.
Excellent summary. N.B. *Its main claim, its core functionality
I'd never heard of Visage. Seems it's a declarative UI language. That raises two questions: what UIs have been built with it, and how does it accommodate the arbitrary code (i.e. imperative rather than declarative) that one inevitably needs as applications become complex?

Ok, three questions: why do you say it would be a killer client-side web language?
What evidence says it disease? rather simply a normal difference.
There is a problem at the other end, after the clinical trials, if a problem is found in use.

There were complaints about memory damage for Lipitor for over a decade, without public warnings (the warnings came recently, a while after the patents timed out). If this had been found in the human trials, I doubt it would have been let through.

I do wonder if the large amount of money from selling the drug (a big bestseller) had influence on any decision...

Nah, regulatory capture is a myth re the medical industry, they wouldn't sell out our health, would they?
Why buy when the university makes the PDF of the book available?
Look at this list:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_journalists_killed_in_R...

Tell me that anything remotely like this has happened in the US or Western Europe.

Reading that list, it almost feels like murdering a Russian journalist is what one does instead of sending an angry letter to the editor.
Unemployment rate is not 0%. Starvation rate is 0%.

Grandparent was implying that the only choices are sub-par employment or starvation, end of story, which sounded a bit sensationalist.
If you're very concerned, create a linkedin account with a nice photo, your college, etc and make this general information public. It will rank very highly and with a cross-reference on your educational info, a future employer worth working for won't mistake you for someone else.
Correlating seems very easy & likely indeed, I didn't think about that.
I read the HN title as "(Requests) for (PHP 1.6)", and wondered why someone would still be using PHP 1.6.
my vm to help the archive team is not working anymore. do you have a fresh link/vm to download?
Amazon is a mixed bag. For example, you don't sign your own app for the Amazon app store. This messes up data sharing if your customer bought apps from different stores, and it enables Amazon to add potentially intrusive code into the APK. Also, "associate" incentives are a big part of Amazon's marketing. I don't think they would view the Canonical deal as being bad for their image.
Drupal generates pages dynamically, usually from a database, which is the exact opposite of what I just suggested. Static pages are the way to go for very high volume. (And as dynamic frameworks go, PHP didn't actually do that well in the techempower benchmarks, though Drupal wasn't one they tested.)

Certainly the design is the root of the problem. You have to "apply" before you get any information. When I say that the team screwed up, I definitely include the people who designed it, not just the programmers who implemented it.
The plots would be more meaningful in logarithmic form.
Time to hand over the reins before Capistrano costs me my youth?
Why developers should go to conferences
Look at the security track record of all plugins. Notice how few of the vulnerabilities are in the actual content decryption code as opposed to the code duplicating things the browser does natively? Also consider how sandboxes the CDM interface can be if it's just passing data through to decode.

That's why this is such a big improvement.
To Connect Brands Easily
How about this PG: We're making Project Management software that works right in your inbox. Works across all email clients/devices/platforms. No installation required.
Very interested in that tool. Can you share more details about it?
Unlike the US, which runs a sideline business murdering random children with drones in far-off corners of the world? Equivalent enough for me.
The Olympic Games, like it or not, have some very specific rules about discrimination. Unfortunately even the Olympic Committee is not keeping up with the rules and it is turning a blind eye when it comes to the human rights violations happening in Russia. How can the games happen, if the LGBTQ athletes cant openly compete? If the games are not following the ideals of the olympic games then they are not really olympic games but a parody. And humanity has better things to do than spending time on such monstrosities. How the hell can a country send LGBTQ athletes over there if there is a risk of them getting imprisoned? The way you present it is as like the games are like a passive aggressive family reunion.
I don't understand the point of your question. Can you elaborate?

It is certainly true that the games were held in Nazi Germany. I don't know what pointing this out has to do with whether or not it can be morally wrong to hold the games in a country with a sufficient level of human rights abuses. Clearly my position is that holding them in Nazi Germany was morally wrong.

That organizers made bad choices in the past does not negate my position or diminish my point.
Our senior tech guys do the patch Tuesday meeting but a big chunk of our kit is internet facing. If you're offline or behind a (decent content filtering) firewall then the impact is potentially lower or non existent.

Impact analysis is essential to discover whether or not the issue is serious.

Our dev team use powershell for all sorts of things from data processing and clean up to fuzzing. It's great because it tries to preserve both the Unix semantics and introduce and object model which means it bridges the world of raw data and COM etc which has traditionally been pretty sticky. It can be quite slow in some circumstances though which is my only concern (this is usually due to the fact strings are immutable on the CLR). I used python for a bit as well but it doesn't hit the spot for COM.

regarding cost, the only major issue for us is SQL Server licensing but we argued with them and waved a postgresql server around and got a hefty discount ;)

We don't use Azure at all mainly due to security concerns (we store financial data). I use it for a couple of side projects as it's cheaper than a couple of dedicated servers.

I've not encountered any major trust issues with Azure despite the whole NSA controversy. I don't get much love for OSS other than from people who want to cut costs and they usually don't pay up.
Hard not to agree here. It's one thing if you're architecting your side project to handle millions of requests from the outset but I think designing for 30,000 notes will give you a better design at 30 notes too.
One example where this approach obviously wasn't taken was early Android builds (at least on the HTC Hero). I emailed support because it started to take 15+ seconds for a sent/received message to appear in the message list and the support engineer said it was because the whole list had to be raised into memory, the message appended, and then the list written out. I've never seen a single iPhone with that problem, so I assume they thought of it from the start.
A Homemade Diagram of the Ruby Object Model (For Visual Learners)
The job of an interviewer is to attempt to refute the interviewee's position as well as possible. In other words, the interviewer should imagine the protestations of their most antagonistic viewer and voice them. This gives the interviewee the opportunity to defend their position, and, hopefully, to attack the common arguments against them.
What is this? Some kind of malware? Whoever it is, they don't have permission to use my code and distribute it with my name/logo.
When the games got held in Nazi Germany , they were used as PR for the Nazi regime. This is what Putin is planning to do as well. Maybe we should learn from our historic mistakes rather than use them as guidelines...
Russia, US and North Korea aren't very much different. Collateral damage from drone strikes? CIA tortures? NSA surveillance? If one wants to boycott a game, then one should boycott all of them. Otherwise, that'll be a double standard would it not? And one's morals and beliefs would be contradictory and hypocritical.
The far market value of a house is not the sales price or the appeased value. You need to subtract transaction costs. For your average bank trying to do a quick sale they might get ~80% or less of the appraised value depending on a host of factors which is why 20% down payments are considered so important. As to mortgages if you look at the mortgage resale market you again need to subtract servicing costs which significantly impact actual value.
>Their business model isn't selling you fitness. It's selling the dream of fitness to people who will come in about twice during their contract.

That's the business model for (almost?) all gyms. Don't make a decision based on this; decide based on if the gym offers the equipment/availability/classes/etc. you need, feels like a place you'd like to go to, is in a convenient location, etc.
A drug kingpin does not deal with small deliveries. They sell bulk and only bulk to drug distributors.
There's always something 'wrong' about tech people wanting to meet face to face. What is the point of the telecommunication tech YOU created? Did you not do a good job?

There's a better approach than what the blog outlines - imagine that you have infinite wealth and begin to build what you personally want.

In most cases you will not be able to create the whole thing, but you can tackle a piece of the problem.

Example - you want a flying car. Imagine that you have 1 trillion dollars at your disposal. What would you do? Hire engineers. How would you hire them? What software is required. Look around, if it does not exist already, that's your first product. If it the hiring problem is already adequately solved, look for the next thing. How do those engineers communicate? etc.

These series of questions will lead to finding niches of opportunity, and it is always a software problem (organizing workflows).
Why is bitstamp consistently ~$10 cheaper per bitcoin compared to MTGox?
The fair market value of a $200k mortgage will not be $200k, I think they could get the "fair market value" in there at one point.

You seem to know a lot more about this situation than I do though, and from your other points it does seem fishy.
And nearly in the same breath he starts pouting that they never 'splurged' on the large bags.

Interesting story though.
I think there is a need for PC manufacturers to have a mechanism for all OS vendors to report BIOS bugs and similar and in turn PC manufacturers would be able to report OS bugs and similar where all of them are treated equally.
Nash equilibrium in open source
I lived in SF from May last year to marry this year for $500/month in chinatown. Horrible building but great location and very affordable.
Parent deleted the message so your reply got me curious. Could you clarify ?
Not as a remedy, but as a critical and most of all mandatory piece of the puzzle.
Here's a better link to Rapportive's website. They have addons for other browsers as well.

http://rapportive.com/