skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Oh that's absolutely true for me. I was talking more about the reaction you get when you're telling your regular friends that last night you went out to a bar by yourself.
Oh please, let him decide that.
Comment on the Guardian website: "Britney rules the waves!" :-)
It always comes down to this; would you prefer security, or just something that makes you feel fuzzy? Crypto in JavaScript only gives the latter.
Here you go: https://github.com/cbumgard/node-qrand
Yeah, I think the 2min/8min issue is the most minor of any mentioned, especially in SF where the cabs are basically absent anywhere but a curb outside a bar.
A Wave of Sewing Jobs as Orders Pile Up at U.S. Factories
Who are you and what are you doing on my Internet?
The Google one apparently is a 404 on HTTPS, and a text file on HTTP.
Stealth Tactics Cloud Raises $1.5 Million from Build Ventures
The single biggest thing I miss when I use OS X is alt+click to move windows.
> This is in stark contrast with all other smartphones whose batteries explode spontaneously

I think this whole story needs to be read in a light-hearted fashion. I'm not sure there are any "facts" to be gained.
> - Abortion is legal as is birth control.

s/banning/attempting to ban/

There, fixed it.

Do you actually doubt that happens? See Texas in recent national news with abortion. Pushback on Roe vs Wade is unceasing, they have nothing to lose (except their time and money, and they have plenty of both) by hammering away at it, no matter how little ground they gain, so that is exactly what they do.

And if you don't think that young earth creationism is a popular belief in America, then you have obviously been exposed to a very small sliver of American society.
> and that it was illegal for him to pick anyone up from the airport and that Uber had specifically given him guidance not to pick anyone up from the airport

This potentially has some truth to it. Many times, to operate a passenger service to/from the airport requires the operator to purchase a (costly) license from the airport authority. Depending on bylaws etc, unlicensed operators who provide passenger service to/from the airport will be subject to fines. In other words, providing access to ground-transport operators seems to be a revenue stream for the airport, but also likely serves to protect the air passengers from cowboy/dodgy transport operators outside the terminal.

Anecdotally, I once struck up a conversation with a taxi driver in Sydney, Australia. We'd passed a pedestrian who (for some reason) was standing on airport land, some distance from the terminals, trying to hail the passing taxis. The driver remarked to me that they'd be waiting for a while, as no taxi would ever stop there: Apparently it is stipulated in the contract that the taxi company has with the airport, that they can only collect and drop fares in the designated areas outside of the terminals. If they pick up a fare at any other location on airport land, they are subject to large fines (he said $10k, but perhaps this was hyperbole). I found this an interesting insight into the level of regulation apparently applied to airport ground-transport operators.
>> Worse, PuTTY doesn't seem to support the keepalive functions that OpenSSH does. I can keep my ssh sessions open all damned day under Linux. Under Windows, if I walk away for lunch or a nap, I have to relog everything when I get back.

Sure it does.

http://www.greenend.org.uk/rjk/sshfwd/tunnel-putty-keepalive...
To replicate that, though, Uber would also have to replicate some of the state apparatus around it, which they may or may not be able to do (or even want to do, ideologically). The London exam is effective in part because it's backed by law: it's illegal to drive a taxi if you haven't passed a licensing exam, and it's also illegal for someone who is properly licensed to lend out their credentials to a friend who'll pick up some people on their behalf, while the licensed driver takes the day off. And as you make the exam more rigorous, those counter-pressures increase, so if Uber had an actually rigorous knowledge exam, they would also have huge levels of cheating if there were no attempt at serious enforcement.

Uber could try to institute both a rigorous knowledge exam, and a high level of enforcement of the rule that only people who actually passed it may drive cars under Uber's name. But they would need some credible way of doing that, like roving undercover inspectors.
There is a reason the term is "talent shortage", not "labor shortage". Yes, there are tons of unemployed people. A vanishingly small proportion of those people can actually fill the jobs that people are hiring for. Hence: talent shortage.

Yes, hiring unexperienced people and training them is an option, but you can't do that for your entire engineering team. Hiring new grads isn't a problem, hiring people senior enough to make those new grads productive is.

In short, not only is this post an advertisement, it's not even an accurate one. The talent gap is a significant problem, and it's only going to get worse if we don't acknowledge it.
I had typed a lengthy introduction to an explanation, but realized I don't know exactly where all the bits are going in a high-res low-bitrate image. All I can say with confidence is that if you squeeze a high-resolution image into the same size as a low resolution image, the low resolution image will look better. The high resolution image will basically be reduced to storing DC coefficients, so you'll see these giant 16x16/8x8/4x4/etc. pixel blocks of solid color, with maybe a bit of pattern on them that barely correlates with what the original looked like.

Maybe it comes down to the per-macroblock overhead; maybe fewer blocks total in the lower resolution image allows more bits to be allocated to frequency coefficients instead of DC offsets.
It varies from country to country, but not that much. The US is in a class pretty much by itself amongst developed countries at least.
I don't think so. I can't really invert the "not dead set" part.
Looking really nice. Is this already coded, or are these still designs?
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I did find the list view, but I switched back to grid view pretty quickly. If you're set on keeping the different tile sizes intermixed, perhaps you could come up with a layout that creates rivers of similar size tiles on the page for the eye to follow naturally. In typography, rivers are avoided at all costs, but I feel like the concept would be valuable here.

Just a suggestion, as always.
Please note the implications of this. The signed javascript would have to be hosted on a separate third party website, and it would have to be the _only_ script content of the website.

Since code can be executed by almost every resource on a webpage, basically the entire would have to be stored on that separate third party website, the html, the css, maybe throw in the images too given their history of weird exploits.

Not saying that's a very crazy idea, but I'm saying it's way beyond the scope of these opal guys, and probably not what most people 'working out' browser crypto are after.
Our moon is named Luna.
Thanks for the reply.

Opal requires as little trust as possible, but you are correct that some server-trust is required at the moment.

I hope that apps like Opal will encourage more progress on browser/javascript cryptography. The W3C crypto spec is coming along nicely, and things like Content Security Policy address some of the concerns about delivering secure javascript.

One nice thing about web-apps is that they are by-default open source, and browsers are bundled with all sorts of diagnostic tools. Anybody who worries that their data is being "sprayed" can just open the network tab and see exactly what is being sent over the wire. Obviously we don't expect many users to do this, but it's one way to enforce our honesty until better solutions exist.
If you can recommend a more information-rich resource on world affairs, I'd be delighted to hear of it.
White House offers tentative support for plans to rein in NSA surveillance
How much extra is it though? If there was a monetary cost to the extra paperwork, like paying someone else to handle it or accounting for the value of your own time. Would that be a significant fraction of the total cost of hiring someone?
There is a difference between "someone must have access" and "a random support account at that company can have full access".

I agree with parent that customer should be able to disable god mode on their account.
Like The Independent?
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It's quite amazing really. FF is a really big project with a complex highly-layered codebase that has to work on a lot of very different platforms (and not just the most recent versions either); changes that might seem simple in the abstract can be very difficult to make in practice. And yet despite this, recently it seems like they're just flying: not only are releases more frequent, but each release seems to contain significant improvements, both in functionality and speed/robustness.

How exactly they manage to pull this off I don't know, but mad props seem apropos... :]
If you need a certain drug to treat an illness and the drug company has a 20 year patent on that drug, how do you propose to get it for cheaper? If you need a rare but specialized surgery and there is only one or two surgeons in the country that can perform the operation, how exactly will you price shop? If you get in a horrible accident, will you go to 3 different ER's to check their prices first? Also who gets priority in the ER waiting room? The person who can pay the most or the person who is in most need? I went in to the ER a few years back for a broken nose. I got cut in line by a guy who got shot and two guys who got stabbed. My guess is none of them had insurance, but considering they could die from their untreated wounds, I did not complain.
That isn't a historical certainty. Even leaving the social axis aside and sticking strictly to economics, the American party system only started to fit a left/right model during FDR's presidency. Progressive Republicans started to split from the party in the '20s and eventually found themselves a home in the New Deal coalition. The big change of the post-Carter epoch is that the socially conservative, economically liberal "Reagan Democrats" have almost entirely disappeared off the map, resulting in both parties becoming more separate on social issues.

I think it's safe to say that a modern representative democracy (assuming a capitalist, industrialized society) will generally have a right faction and a left faction in national politics. What makes things complicated is when you throw in regionalism, nationalism, militarism, ethnic issues, moral issues, and any other matter of controversy that doesn't always split the same way as left/right economic positions.
What we are seeing now is the end, not of hypocrisy, but of credibility.

The prediction that institutions founded in a limited information environment (and their extant policies specifically) will simply continue in an unlimited information environment by simply changing rhetoric, are exactly that: predictions.

That is to say, if a hypothetical swindler cannot profitably swindle when the veracity of her lies are easily checked. The article proposes that our imaginary trickster need simply start telling the truth to continue prospering.
And the left has it's crazy ideas as well:

- killing humans to protect animals
- banning happy meals, gold fish, super-sized soft drinks
- "living wages" and other failed economic ideas

The right certainly doesn't have a monopoly on stupid ideas.
Interesting, I did not know that. (I guess I don't obsess enough over it!) It's still very unconvincing (it didn't just "touch" a bone).

There is far more weirdness in the case and there's plenty of collateral evidence that the FBI's modus operandi at the time was to frame suspects in high profile cases -- along with anyone J. Edgar Hoover simply didn't like -- to reinforce its reputation for infallibility.

Anyhow, the basic argument "if there was a conspiracy, someone would have talked by now" is disingenuous. All kinds of people have talked -- so many that it's impossible to sort the wheat from the chaff.
Yet most of Europe has far stricter abortion laws than the US. Weird, huh?
More like people are not learning the right skills to be useful. Economic restructuring used to happen much more slowly but with the advancement in technology these days it happens significantly more rapidly.
Is it just me or is the .ttf missing some of the icons? When I open the font in Font Book on my mac there are only a small fraction of the icons showing.
If, according to Clapper, "knowing what foreign leaders were thinking was critical to US policymaking", then why do the US policymakers - president and congress (it's intelligence committee) - claim that they weren't informed about that?

As far as I understand, Mr. Clapper should be working for their needs, and noone else, shouldn't he?
I am curious, given that the new generation doesn't seem to care much about quality and as planned obsolescence is getting more common, from a business perspective, is it worth putting more effort into ensuring quality beyond the warranty?
Just because they believe the creation event was done in the last 10,000 years doesn't mean they believe the earth is 10,000 years old.

God created Adam and Eve as adults. They had an age (non zero).

The stars had light immediately shining across the sky. So this implies age (via time). etc.
'Classical liberal' evokes thoughts of Adam Smith and David Ricardo, who have little in common with the staff of 'The Economist'. 'The Economist' is not alone in claiming this mantle, as Alan Wolfe has made similar statements (though his claim may be on shakier ground), but it is speculative and presumptive. The classical liberals did not envision many policies put forward by this magazine, and it is doubtful that Smith and Ricardo would have supported them.
The man gives a perfectly good reason why the it might not be considered right in the US and this is your answer?

Perhaps you don't know as much about your country as you think you do.
the best summation of the Economist's editorial viewpoint is that it's aimed at rich businessmen, & consequently combines tacit support for economic inequality w/ choice morsels of liberalism - viz. healthcare & gun control - in order to differentiate itself from "unsophisticated" paleoconservatives
True, but that's only what you'd expect a noob to do. I have never had an actual taxi driver make that mistake, because the airport, of all places, is somewhere a taxi driver can get to in their sleep.
Is it just me or did I just read 8 paragraphs or blather pretending not to be an advertisement for some book?

I think he said that HR departments suck at hiring because they outsource to tech companies who use keyword searches.

I could be wrong, but I think the problem is a bit more complex than that.
hah! a reference to a popular aspect of geek culture! more of this, please.
It's more complicated than that: on the issues that are most controversial in the USA, it's true that other countries have what looks like a consensus by comparison. But other countries have their own issues that make Republicans look positively enlightened: see, for instance, many European countries' right-wing edge of opinion on immigration and diversity.

Sure, conservatives get bad in the States--see the attempt to block building a mosque in Tennessee by a bunch of drooling rednecks--but look at things comparatively. In Switzerland, they banned building mosques anywhere in the country. In France, they (successfully?) tried to regulate what clothing Muslim women can wear in public. And even those countries are relatively enlightened for Europe: try being an immigrant in Greece or gay in Russia.
If this were a blog post with a proposal for changes to implement a workable JS crypto mechanism, that'd be great, but it's a actually blog post about how some people are going to implement a "secure" service using a mechanism that's known to be insecure.

This isn't a new idea that we're shooting down before it has a chance to fully form. It's something that people have been trying, and making dangerous security claims about, for at least 10 years.

It's possible that the core issues are resolvable, but they would likely require substantial changes to the way the web browser works. Whenever people start thinking about a way to make a mechanism like this work correctly, the scope of what's required unravels quickly. At this point, I don't know of any defined or even partially articulated proposal that makes sense and accounts for the bulk of the gotchas.

Given that we haven't even been able to get correctly-scopable cookies yet (something the vast majority of the web wants and which has been clearly defined and articulated for many years), I'm not sure that we should hold our breath for this.
Hmm. We had some issues today so we are going through each icon and making sure everything is good and then going to rebuild the font files.
in other words: "bipartisanship"!
I'm constantly missing this when I work on an OS X machine. Somehow, I end up with the window titles offscreen and just get momentarily stumped when I want to move it again.
Running 'cat' too many times.
Yeah, yet a bit of a travesty of a classical liberal for supporting administrations like Obama's.

I agree with your definition of classical liberal, Economist doesn't subscribe to it.
Http://lemire.me/blog/archives/2013/10/29/people-who-make-you-feel-stupid
There are identifiable philosophical positions of "left" or "right" that don't necessarily indicate slavish adherence to any particular left-wing or right-wing party's platform. A given policy (welfare programs) can be justified by either a left-wing or a right-wing framework.

Left and right are different motivations and different ways of seeing the world more than they are different policy platforms.
One of my favorite experience with recruiting agency, from 10+ years ago.

I had sent in my resume and on it, there was NOTHING about Novell. I mean NOTHING. I get a call from a recruiter for what position? A Novell Administrator.

Told myself never to use a recruiting agency.
Isn’t it a hip thing to blame Apple?

To be honest, I did not see any posts regarding such issue in Apple Developer Forums during Mavericks Developer Preview phase.

Large numbers of my email accounts are hosted through Gmail or Google Apps.
I disagree. Javascript cryptography can provide real security, it's just important to keep in mind what is being secured, and where the vulnerabilities are. Currently, js crypto is vulnerable in that its difficult to verify that the js a browser is running is the intented code.

Every day, millions of people are sending sensitive data over very insecure channels like email and DropBox because secure tools like PGP are to difficult for them or their friends to use. Clearly some security is better than none, as long as the limitations are known.
that functionality [critical administation functionality] available to anyone on the internet via a simple password

I mean COME ON, MAN.... there are mistakes, and then there's incompetence.
"Would it be beneficial to the developing nations of the world for the U.S. to abdicate its hegemony, leaving a power vacuum for Russia or China?"

The US is not limiting itself to keeping Russia and China in check, and that is the problem. Hardly anyone would claim that the US should abandon Taiwan to its fate. Yet at the same time, why is the US military being used to expand the reach of US businesses? Why are we in the business of support cruel dictators, and even overthrowing democratic governments in favor of dictatorships? Why continue the embargo on Cuba? Why do we ignore the UN when it suits us, then use the fact that a country ignores the UN as a pretense to attack it?
I've had smartphones drop down a flight of concrete stairs. Meh.

Plastic case + polycarb (e.g. plastic) screen. The cheaper lower end smartphones end up being more durable (although not waterproof!)
What is our intent?
That's exactly why I haven't been able to bring myself to buy nice Apple hardware: there are too many things where I say, "I want it," and the answer is "You shouldn't." With my LXDE desktop, I can make it act however I want, and I'm pleased and productive, even though I shouldn't be.
Users, given the choice between paying for things and being inundated with ads, overwhelmingly choose the ads. I don't get it either, but advertising isn't some conspiracy, it's giving the people what they want. Ambitious social reform programs have left enough literal and metaphorical bodies in their wake that I want none of that.

Your linked argument that advertising makes things more expensive doesn't work out; ultimately businesses need to create awareness of their products and there's a zero-sum game for attention to be won. These costs will be borne by the purchasers of products no matter what you do. As technological progress makes design, manufacturing and distribution cheaper but advertising no more cost effective, there's a sort of Amdahl's law pushing advertising's share of costs up.

That said, advertising and advertising-supported products sound like an incredibly dreary thing to work on, so I'll continue letting someone else do the "stuff for which users are not willing to pay" thing.
Nokia Had A Stunning Q3 In North America, With Device Volume Up 367%
Mises once got angry at a meeting of the Mont Pelerin Society and called Friedman, Hayek, et al. "a bunch of socialists". It is hard to imagine him describing the editorial board of "The Economist" as 'classically liberal'.
I gave up! It fails to build miserably. What's the point of open-sourcing something when you're not open to the community. I mean, do this when it's ready for prime time, provide binaries, and they open-source it so that people can have some confidence in what they're running on their machines.
If you're running a decent linux you can turn auto-update off. No browser will let you do that.
Oh look another page full of unicode placeholder symbols.

When did the web become a place that is hostile to people who want to choose the fonts they read things in?
I just wonder how much of this talent gap is real. For example, if I am looking for Ruby on Rails experience and I have candidates with strong python and Django experience are they off the list? Or how about someone that has done PHP for a long time and you are looking for RoR.

Or let's say someone with Java experience is available but you are looking for Scala. I just use these as the initial comparisons but I'm sure there are more. Can you not let the python person train up on Ruby on Rails and have a strong candidate?

I understand its best to match one to one what is being looked for, but I wonder how many good candidates are being passed by because they don't fit the perfect stack but are likely able to perfectly adapt.
Virgin America's new safety video is epic
Bought my first Bitcoin at an ATM in Vancouver
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> due to finding myself frustrated with their political bias.

... in which direction?
I know there's a family of compounds found in wine that can smell like cat urine[1]. If this laptop has a rubberized component, some googling[2] indicates these same compounds may be employed in their manufacture.

1. http://www.wineanorak.com/mercaptansinwine.htm

2. http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20130310034151AA...
Stricter laws but much better access. If you can get a government-subsidized first-trimester abortion at a nearby clinic, it makes the availability of late-term abortions much less politically contentious. That's not a compromise that's really available in the US, mostly because it would require universal health care first.
And yet, jsquery works that way, doesn't it? Everyone pulls jsquery in from basically one site...

Does the entire website have to be on that separate third party location, or just a self-booting kernel of crypto to enable a signed website to be downloaded from the desired source?