skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The example I gave involved a lot more than the pedestrian observation that "arbitrary strings can be interpreted to mean illegal stuff". And it did not in any way attempt the sleight-of-mind involved in the "it's all 1s and 0s" reduction.

My example involved explicitly stating the mathematical fact of a number's factors, requiring no steganographic reinterpretation. The crucial point is that the (boring mathematical) information about factors alone, with no further interpretation, suffices for the authorities' opponents to be tipped off. That is, all they have to do is search the web for "known semi-primes" and check them against public keys.

>It's an incredibly boring, and over-repeated statement that you can represent information as numbers and therefore you can have ILLEGAL NUMBERS!

Which wasn't my point at all; in the example I gave the numbers and encoding are not intended to represent anything other than the fact of a semi-prime's factorization.

>If you do so with the intent of breaking encryption I'm sure there are situations where it would be illegal.

>Intent, as is so often ignored when legal matters come up, is incredibly important.

It would actually be the breaking of the breaking of encryption. And I'm no so naive to think this would be a legally-defensibly way to circumvent snooping, to suppose that judges would just say, "herp derp, all you did was announce a semi-prime's factors, you're free to go!"

But it is a much less trivial example that you're making it out to be, and it is not at all the same as the OP's example, which required applying a specific encoding to an arbitrary string to get arbitrary meaning. In my example, it is nothing more and less than a mathematical fact that also happens to be used to conceal or authenticate data by other parties.
You can be a great developer and not know the first thing about server administration. They aren't mutually inclusive skill-sets in the least. If I spend my day working on embedded systems, why would I give a rat's ass about a webserver?
You forgot to subtract the amount you "paid" for the RSUs by not making an optimal salary.
At the bottom of the page he mentions Yelp, and looking at their robots.txt they have this weird stuff for each of the allowed bots:

Disallow: /biz/outlook-autumn-market-fundamental-catwalk-flimsy-roost-legibility-individualism-grocer-predestination-0

And over and over ten times. Trying to see if the bots ignore robots.txt I guess?
One flew over the startup nest
New iPhone App Lets You See Which Spy Satellites Are Watching You
I use an Android 2.3 device. I'm not paying for a new phone until this one breaks.

On a side note, I'd love to update the software on it, but Samsung/Telus have not offered an upgrade path. So, 2.3 it is.
Are the others, in fact, just as bad? If so, I've not heard of it. Sure, there are certain routine abuses that are rampant everywhere, but Wal-Mart takes it to a uniquely high level from what I know. I could be wrong, of course, but that's what I know.
This is exactly the approach known as the blogspam :)
Elon Musk can do anything i am waiting for the day when Elon Musk launch Robots like Pacific Rim and transformers. Initially i don know about this person but one of my friend inform me about Tesla,space x and Elon Musk. I got surprised and think that what i am doing or others are doing. From that day Elon Musk name give me Positive boost. You can do it sir.
We are waiting...
I performed stand up comedy for over a year and I can relate to this (but I've got a computer science background). I was a one-liner instead of a story teller (even though I wished I was a story teller). Here's how my background in computer science helped:

* Getting a joke to work best often requires A/B testing

* I tried to choose my best jokes objectively. I'd watch my videos and keep track of the jokes that got the laughs consistently. I then wrote a program to sort jokes by the best ratio.

* There are lots of rules (though they are fuzzy). This kind of reminds me of programming language syntax. Like you should attempt to make the punchline the last part of the sentence. Start with your funniest joke, end with your second funniest (this rule might be reversed, I can't remember).

* Try to be as concise as possible. Usually if you can cut out words your joke will be more effective. This reminds me of removing DRY violations in code.

* Some jokes are really technical. They'd consistently get a laugh if every word was said in the exact tone and order they're supposed to, but if anything about the joke changed, it wouldn't "compile".

* Like programming, it'll probably take 10 years to get good at it (see http://norvig.com/21-days.html )

* Sometimes you'd think of a tag for an already existing joke. A tag is a joke that only makes sense in the context of the immediately preceding joke. This is like adding a feature to a legacy code base. It often requires refactoring and maintenance.

I like the way Marc Maron put it: One liners are the Math majors of comedy. Story tellers are the English majors.
That was almost the original intent behind sitemap.xml, (http://sitemaps.org). Except of course, that they were being used erroneously and changes published when no content was changed, and so the spiders stopped using them as canon.
In meantime, made a bug report: https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=309092
"write a blog post about the story and submit that instead."

A long comment and a link are probably OK, but if you just want to change the title, you'd probably get accused of blogspam.
I've also read that NT 4 servers on AEGIS cruisers once had to be rebooted weekly.
write a blog post about the story and submit that instead

Well, actually, the guidelines ask us to submit the original. But you can submit the original and link to your blog in the comments.
I remember compilation being nearly instantaneous.
Have you tried both old VR units and the Oculus demo unit?
Perhaps worth looking at the drill down based on country/language...
The GOP overall has the lowest ratings in polling history. Yes babbling idiots in small districts where these Tea Party folks hail from will be re-elected due to gerrymandering, but they are a small minority.

Cruz previously didn't filibuster, he didn't have the votes for that. It was a long "speech" that Reid allowed to happen, but he was never able to continue on indefinitely.

I'd be worried about the moderates who will get voted out by the public due to this issue, not the small biased districts who will continue to raise hell, and get nowhere.
Thoughts? I've been reading about standing desks, not sure I want to go to that much effort.
> The problem is that they have a simple policy that makes total sense based on their principles (first person to post a story doesn't have special privileges, and posts are community property) and their limitations (part time admins).

Actually, the problem is that they have a recently changed[1] policy that makes no sense whatsoever given the limitations on this site with relation to the nature of media that's being posted. I.e. the fact that submitters cannot post a title and a lede, while the lede on a linked site may add much needed context to an otherwise ambiguous title.

Unfortunately, your head is so far up pg's ass that you were unable to realize this simple fact.

Therefore, you may continue massaging pg's balls.

[1] As recently as last year, this was the policy: "You can make up a new title if you want, but if you put gratuitous editorial spin on it, the editors may rewrite it."

HN has been around for a while, so many long-time users probably aren't even aware of the change.
I have no idea what academic excellence even is.
I'm coming to the conclusion that when citing a dictionary or other reference work, the probability of an unforced language error in the same sentence asymptotically approaches 1.
Interesting comment. Can't say I agree with it. There are a lot of benefits to having an equity grant as part of a total comp package for highly paid employees like software engineers and management. Even more so if you're fortunate enough to get non-qual options and not RSU's.

Among other things, if that employee had insisted on no equity all salary, he'd have POSSIBLY gotten that extra $25k a year. The guy next to him would be the one with $72k. You'd rather earn the "optimal" salary? And sure, share price can go down but if you don't believe a company is going to continue building wealth, why work there?
I can't tell if a submitter is editorializing or the original article is until I click through. If I know it's the publisher because titles aren't altered, I can simply not click through if I'm not interested. If it's the submitter, then maybe there's a great article there that I'd miss because of it.
If you don't have programming skills and just want to validate your idea it might be wise to hire a reliable software house to build MVP for you. Once you gain traction you can start building your own team or reworking the MVP on your own. <shameless plug>This is how we work with founders from the UK and US at codedose.com</shameless plug>
JOKE? : What year are we in currently? (2011)
I really like this. The session holds a lot of information about how your users are using your app. You can get the same information with analytics etc. but having it available in the DOM is really nice.
In my opinion, the increase in Google share price really has to do with the Motorola purchase. There is a potential that Motorola phones could some day be just as popular as Samsung or Apple - this a huge add to the share price and Google's revenue and profits. Just take 10% the market cap of Apple and Samsung and add it to Google, you'll see the picture.
I just rolled my own to just save the URL and then convert it to a mobi file using Calibre.

I guess it could be easily edited to do the conversion there and then, rather than wait, which is what it does at the moment.

It will also email the converted ebooks to your kindle, so every 2 weeks i realize that i find too many things interesting to read.
I think Oculus Rift i combination with something like Leap could lead the way for useful 3D-interfaces. I don’t like the term VR reality. To me it’s the skeuomorphism of the 3D-world. Instead of trying to simulate the real world, why not use 3D to express more abstract concepts (like we already are doing with 2D screens).

Of course, in time something like holograms will be more relevant, but in the mean time I think things like Oculus Rift in combination with other technologies can be a nice stop-gap.
Fun fact: If you had bought a call yesterday for $300, it would now be worth $3100. 1000% return on investment.

Yesterday I bought a chipotle call (because of earnings release) for $600 and now its worth $3600

Now that the political budget debate is over, I think we will see a spectacularly volatile movement upwards and strong earnings will push stocks to absurd prices way over any reason. The best thing to do is to ride the wave and make some extra cash. It doesn't make any sense (price vs earnings), but as long I'm making money thats okay.

Do keep in mind that Google did not jump $130/share because its earnings was spectacularly better than ever. It made this huge jump because the market is headed for another bullish run and the market is crazy.

I trade stocks on the side for fun, and I blog about my trades here: http://songzmoney.quora.com/
Map of the world with a time slider going to 3000 BC
I, too, had to shout into a sound-powered phone in the very center of a ship's plant. Often it was with the bridge crew. The bridge is very quiet at night, so the crew up there would almost whisper into the phone, completely oblivious to the fact that I can't hear a damn thing over the turbines.
http://api.ihackernews.com/
Military spec processors are specially made to be "hardened" against that kind of thing. Back in the late 90's military spec Intel chips were almost one chip generation behind consumer cpus, but the packaging was considerably different.

EDIT: In the competition between EMP nuclear weapons and Faraday cages, Faraday cages win. They're fundamentally cheaper tech.
I don't like thinking about space too much; I mildly worry that if I get too much into it, something might snap in my head, and that can't be a good thing.
From Merriam-Webster:

apocryphal: of doubtful authenticity
And no privacy issues, NSA revelations, services shutdown, Google+ coercion, and further exploitation of users have any effect on the bottom line. You can get away with anything when you're big and important.
Think "play suggested movies, back-to-back, without stopping, all of them."
> Or, even simpler: if you have a story with a bad title and a new title you feel strongly about, instead of submitting and then writing a long comment, write a blog post about the story and submit that instead.

As stated elsewhere in this thread by others in replies to your suggestion (but sadly much lower on this page, so people will continue to see this earlier comment of yours): short blog posts telling people about another post are generally considered "blogspam" and so thereby posting anything but the original article is not just widely disliked on this site but explicitly violates the guidelines.

"Please submit the original source. If a blog post reports on something they found on another site, submit the latter.".
Quantum Physics mod for Minecraft
The "Regimental Commander" of the military academy boarding school I went to was a James Kirk my freshman year. And his school rank was captain.

EDIT: Actually, the Zumwalt looks promising this way. Just add two nacelles and a saucer section.

EDIT: The Zumwalt bridge looks promising in another way. (Leiji Matsumoto) But instead of the 3 smaller screens, have a single 30x30 foot screen leaning forward at a 45 degree angle.
Could they not run webhooks where my site can call to them when to do a full or partial crawl? PubSub for web crawling, if you will.
A list of (nearly) every example of game theory in Breaking Bad
They look just about the same as ships in the current fleet. Much of the new tech is not easily recognizable, even from the inside. For example, high-tech materials, C4I systems, etc.
By that measure, Africa must be a hot-bed of critical thought!
It's a mission designed to run Crysis 1 at 60FPS. I hear rumors that if they reach 61, the full fury of an uncontrollable lens flare reaction takes place, so they can only do this mission in the Mariana Trench for safety reasons.
Well the error message is confusing (it's trying to cast from an integer (type 70) to a procedure (type 76)), but it's correct to fail to compile. But yeah I'm not sure that my logic there is altogether correct. I re-wrote it a few times as I found new cases that weren't correctly handled. Specifically, I'm not sure whether the type of the identifier should guide the parsing. It's similar to the "x*y" ambiguity in parsing C (multiplication or declaration of pointer variable y).
Actual TV on your desktop/phone. No messing with buying a tuner or any crap like that. Only thing that would suck is bandwidth caps...but you might as well get a more expensive plan if you do away with TV.
I’m Going To Give My Startup Ideas Away
I'm no Android developer, but with as many API versions I know of for Android it's not hard to imagine that the development experience is very similar. Supporting <API14 may cost more in development and support than the potential customer base gain, especially if the target market is the sort that would have newer devices.
Why Grass Isn't Always Greener: The Benefits of Mid-Sized Tech Hubs
I'm not sure, I've never used it. I was referring to OTR, Silent Circle, etc.
Good point. But till the crash, lets ride the wave and make some money.
I don't know if I tried that. Originally, I wanted to let them know they were forbidden, but now I just want to jerk them around.
That's a good point. I haven't read the original profile in a long time, so I don't remember - do they actually have any farming, animals, etc? If they don't raise animals, then counting them doesn't matter quite so much.
For some definition of 'similar': http://www.scientificpsychic.com/graphics/
This is a better predictor of your success than IQ or EQ
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It's also because America has a culture of encouraging mavericks. This is seen as more individualistic, ergo morally better. Every system set up in America is effectively doomed to perceived failure because you're not really considered doing well until you're circumventing or beating it in some way.
Well, going off the title since the blog is down, Gingerbread is still 28% of Android phones out there. (Source http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html )

Not to mention there are still plenty on new GB phones sold in developing markets.

He's advocating dropping potentially 30% of his potential consumers because it's technically easier. Some of us can probably afford that, some can't. But I just think broad statements like "Just drop support for the older version, it'll push people to upgrade and make the entire system better" is a stupid argument.

The reality is people paid a lot of money for their sweet new Android 2.3 phones 2 years ago or less. Why should you punish them now and not spend the extra time to make your app work well there?

The biggest problem with GB that I've seen isn't necessarily the lack of certain APIs , but the constraints in terms of resources on phones with GB, which tend to have worse hardware (because they are older devices or lower-end devices). If you think by developing on ICS/JB you magically can stop worrying about performance or resource constraints, you'd be mistaken. Some of the new cheaper Android phones in developing markets are very resource constrained.

Cheap devices aren't going away. Dropping GB support does not mean you can stop writing performance-optimized code or profiling your app.
While it is possible to do so, the information and code provided here does absolutely nothing to prevent replay attacks.

The ability to revoke sessions is nice, and somewhat related, but it's not the same as preventing replay attacks.

Aside from providing visibility into active sessions, the only other reason I can imagine this being better than signed cookies is if you didn't trust your signing algorithm and wanted to prevent someone from changing parts of your session cookie while retaining a valid signature. As far as I know, the signatures used by Rails and Django have not been called into question.
Skype, Don't Kill Our API (petition) 
Skype says they will cut off third-party Skype apps at year end. Millions of Skype users rely on apps built on those APIs by independent developers. This hurts millions of families and small businesses who record calls, save chats, translate chats, play games, and control headsets using apps that make Skyping better. This Change.org petition asks Skype to keep their programmers' platform running so users can continue to do more with Skype.
yeah I missed that
They own the patent, I say make them give that up since it's obviously worth so much.
I'm not understanding how the android powered standalone headset would work? Would you download games to it? Would it have enough horsepower to run the games? Would it need a huge battery?
Argentina's hard money solution to hyperinflation (pegging to the dollar) didn't end well either.
Costco targets the high-middle-class families, who have the income and space to buy bulk. And by making up in volume and high-end products [1] Costco can afford to "not be evil".

[1] - One not very well-known facts about Costco is that a big part of their profit comes from the high-end "novelty" stuff that they put in between the cheap bulk items. That works for them because people who shop at Costco have high disposable income.
I think this is the true problem.

How many devices are out there that could be running 4.0+ but aren't due to manufacturer or carrier interference? Not everyone is capable of rooting and installing custom versions of the OS.

Android fragmentation is purely a manufacturer/carrier issue. To the article's point, maybe developers can help that process by enforcing 4.0+.
Agreed. It creates a perception gap.
No need for a battery, it is just a phone in a headset running older games and you see the screen through the lens.
Forget about cats,how can we be sure that all humans see the same colors?
Sitemaps (http://www.sitemaps.org/) help a bit in that regard, as crawlers can check the sitemap and only crawl updated content.
I'ma let him finish when his site comes up, but here why I generally recommend targeting Android 4:

1. If you want to make a UI that scales across all device sizes, and you don't want to use hacks like ActionBarSherlock that will become a maintenance headache after the moment of convenience, build your app skeleton around Android 4 APIs.

2. Targeting Android 4 avoids use of the Support Library for back-compatibility, and therefore avoids using FragmentActivity. This isn't as bad as some of the back-compatible action bar hacks, but it is still an unnecessary complication in most cases. N.B. you may still want to use the Support Library for new APIs like PagerAdapter.

3. Tablets are going to increase in importance, and for some apps, tablets are the main target. Center your implementation strategy around tablets as the ideal experience, with multiple fragments on each tablet-size layout that are "unrolled" into sub-activities when running on a handset.

4. If you think the above point implies a unified code-base, yes, it does. Targeting Android 4 and above will simplify your unified code base.

The exception is apps that MUST target every user, and every device in the field. For example, my consultancy had an engagement with a dating site that needed to upgrade their Android app. After weighing the pluses and minuses, the conclusion was that it was better to put in more effort and incur some technical debt to reach every possible user. On the other hand, if you are writing an enterprise app for a green-field deployment, don't even consider supporting old versions.
I have not tried the Oculus demo unit but I don't see what that has to do with what I'm saying. If I can't use it at the DMV it's probably not casual enough.
Google sends out invites to October 24 event in New York: Nexus 5?
It's amazing to me that we're saying that a three year old OS is too old to have software written for it. Especially given that a part of the laptop market has metamorphosed into the tablet market.

I guess that's not a problem if you buy new tablets/phones every year, which is what we're moving towards.
Just curious if anyone has an opinion:

Is it worth ordering a dev kit now, or should I wait for this next one to come out?

Also what's the minimum cost rig needed to run an oculous effectively? I only have a 3 year old macbook right now.
How is this any different from a virus that wipes (not just deletes) your data? It takes the same amount of time (actually wiping data would be faster) and the result is the same: No data.

Maybe the psychological part of "Oh God the file is there but I can't use it" or the fact it's ransomware?
Most users can easily upgrade their browser if forced to. Upgrading your phone is not as easy.
Good point. Perhaps this conversation needs to be continued elsewhere. You can ping me at roy at osherove dot com
Why can't they a la carte the sports already? They're broadcasting nearly every sporting event imaginable nowadays but it's still such a hassle to watch as a cordcutter.
Probably a honeypot, yeah.
"Getting a joke to work best often requires A/B testing" - So true! We all do that in real life without realizing it.
Classic TechCrunch: Aesthetically pleasing, terrible content.
username485631 (if that is your real name), nice use of the irony in drawing attention to the "mean and stupid comments" point.
I got around 6,000 advance on first edition as first time author, which covered first 6k copies sold. It was also split into three parts, each at every third of the book being done.
For more than two viable parties, you need something other than winner-take-all first-past-the-post.