skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lightbeam is the new Collusion

> Lightbeam began in July 2011 as Collusion, a personal project by Mozilla software developer Atul Varma. Inspired by the book The Filter Bubble, Atul created an experimental add-on to visualize browsing behavior and data collection on the Web.

> In September 2012, Mozilla joined forces with students at Emily Carr University of Art + Design to develop and implement visualizations for the add-on. With the support of the Ford Foundation and the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council (NSERC), Collusion has been re-imagined as Lightbeam and was launched in the fall of 2013.
NSA now deciding where they can place a splitter...
I have the same setup with my 15" MBP, that was probably the last upgradeable Apple laptop ever.

I'd love a retina display, but I'll be holding on to that outdated MBP for as long as I can. I don't really care for the reduction in thickness and weight these mono-block designs have purportedly made possible. It's not even about them overcharging me for parts I can easily upgrade myself for half the price, although they do.

For me the main problem is the fact that as these machines are mere appliances now, their capabilities are fixed from the moment of purchase. There is no way to upgrade RAM, or to replace a damaged part. Now, any kind of defect means the device is bricked. And I will never be able to extend it beyond its original functionality.

This is not OK for a device that costs € 3000+ and has an expected service life of 2-3 years. These devices are simply too expensive for a design that treats them as mere disposables. Because that's what they have become.

If those tightly-integrated hunks of plastic were getting cheaper, I'd say this is just the way things go: a rapid buy-and-replace cycle with a solid recycling process behind it. But that's not the direction Apple is going. They seem to be focusing on customers for whom a frequent multi-thousand dollar expense is no issue.

Increasingly, I just get the sense that Apple is screwing me and the profit margin on those devices is a good indicator for that.
There really aren't that many laws governing how nation-states should behave towards one another; and there certainly isn't any notion of rights to fall back on. The international arena is effectively a lawless "wild west" world, and it shows; particularly in the attitude and demeanour of those who have been exposed to its' vicissitudes for any significant length of time.
Besides an interesting read, I laughed all over again at the video on the bottom. Worth a reminder if you didn't catch it the first time or haven't "Java 4-Ever" before...
I agree with your valid point, re

>> Invalid point: Formulae are easy to follow and audience can easily verify/reproduce your work.

Actually this is another valid point of Excel.

Unless the financial model was done incorrectly (using VBA, complicated formula chains, unclear logic), it is very easy to verify financial model in Excel, which is a big plus.
I love the Stockholmed defenders posting here. Next up, Pages 6 - a piece of paper and a pencil!

"The editing is very intuitive. You just rub the other end of the pencil on the paper - very nice. The motion feels like a tablet."

"There are way more pages of paper the Apple devices, Apple is just skating to the puck here."

"Most people want simpler word processing. Apple has listened to its users - this is so easy a child could do it."

"I prefer Apple's minimalism to a complicated and expensive device. Paper and pencil just works."

"It's quite a bit less expensive, but my friends can see the Apple logo watermark right there in the center so it still fits my trendy Bay Area lifestyle."
Here in the USA, ammunition is sold on every street corner. But then, so are guns. Printed guns seems to be more of a technical challenge than anything practical. The police and press making a fuss seem to be looking for a juicy story more than any actual danger. Meanwhile D&D made me the Satanist I am today.
Apple themselves used to discourage using a case sensitive partition for the OS. It's probably fine, just not the standard and widely tested configuration. The major hassle starts when one single program you need fails because of the setting - you'd just have to reinstall everything. So the safer way is use case insensitive for the primary and have a dedicated space for development with a case sensitive FS.
Depends what you use your screen for I suppose.

I guess shiny displays and vibrant colours make sense for watching movies and the like. For working however I'm more than willing to trade sharpness for comfort.

I mean, from your link, look at this: http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o139/callsign_vega/PICT00...

Which side of the screens looks best for coding honestly?
I'm curious if people have first hand experience going back. In some occupations, professor jobs and researchers at labs, going back isn't trivial.
If we're going for 100, I'd quickly add:

Pasteur -- popularized the germ theory of disease.

Florence Nightingale -- transformed health care, and also influenced statistics

Euclid, Euler, Riemann

Caesar, Stalin

Paul -- the marketing brains behind Christ's enduring success
Then do not by a BMW - buy a Ford.
To be fair, changing RAM and putting in an SSD in a unibody MBP would only take a few minutes if you did it yourself too. The only "tricky" piece was disconnecting the battery (not strictly necessary), and that only needed a triwing screwdriver.
Also SSDs implement an internal filesystem optimized for flash that emulates a block device to the outside. For this Kinetic Store, the controller would be quite likely even simpler.
I'm sorry didn't noticed it is over a year old I thought a couple of months. I'm unable to change the title as I'm not aloud to do that anymore. I was triggered by the lime editor post to see how the 2.0 version was coming along so I searched and stumbled upon this.
>> While this is publicly available information

>> You are just making them a target for malicious people who would otherwise be too lazy to find that information.

I already addressed that.
then we clearly need a new law - if the police can't tell the difference between a 3D printer part and a gun part (or, indeed, a 3D printer part can be used in a gun, which is possible I suppose) then the existing law bans such 3D printers, which was clearly not its intention!
> The MBP is one of the most functional devices available. The wanky, hipster appeal is way overplayed. Plenty of people use them inspite of their image.

They are fine machines, but if you don't care about subjective things, like how a laptop looks, how much it weighs (an extra pound or 2 never really genuinely matters to a use case), and you only care about getting exactly what you need (not want) for the lowest price, then there is no way you would ever buy a MBP. They are a product that we convince ourselves that we need or deserve because we lust after it, even when a cheaper alternative would do just fine.

I have bought macs for a while, but if I have to be really honest with myself there was always a cheaper alternative that was 'good enough', it's just that I subjectively want apple's products because they are 'nicer'.
Yeah I just noticed that, sorry, also I thought that it being open sourced was more interesting than the reason why.
Gettext .mo and .po editor in the browser
We did. Infact the specimen sheets were tested with random users in their cooking environment and the reading patterns were analysed. We noticed that line heights needs to be liberal and open counter letter forms fare better in such scenarios. Again, these are pure observation based conclusions and the same fonts when tested with improved type settings have been reviewed well by the users.
The author runs Fontli [1], a community dedicated to typeface. I am he’ll must have researched the subjects

[1] https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/fontli/id506650372
I'm curious - after the first few "wow, nice visualization!", how does this add-on improve the experience of someone already running add-ons like Disconnect or Ghostery?
I call BS here, the tooling for Scala sucks and without strict coding conventions and familiarization with said conventions you can get lost quickly.
I'm part of a team who moved from Java to Scala recently (C# is a nicer language than Java these days). Apart from me, nobody else had real-world Scala experience but were generally good programmers and were able to pick up the functional aspects of Scala fairly quickly. The move was a big success, and a frequent comment I hear is "I can't imagine moving back to Java".

One of the reasons why the migration worked for us was that one can (with a bit of discipline) get into idiomatic Scala slowly. You can definitely start off writing Java-ish Scala and still gain a lot from the decreased verbosity and nicer APIs. You can safely stay away from over-using implicits, functional programming etc. till you get a good grasp of the language. With excellent Java interoperability, you don't have to convert your entire stack to Scala overnight, but slowly replace old code with Scala.

With respect to performance, if you insist on writing idiomatic Scala, there is definitely a performance overhead, because the JVM is not suited for large amounts of small allocations, as is often the case with an immutable style of programming. However, we run a pretty large scale data crunching system, and depending on what your code does, CPU bound performance hit pales in comparison to the network and I/O waits, so for us, it was not a big deal. When we absolutely needed to optimize a tight loop or something, we wrote C-like Scala, using while loops and mutable data structures.

Addendum: The greatest win for us was the readability of the code base. Scala allows you to largely keep your data structures immutable, so it's much easier to reason about. With parallel collections, Actors and Futures, concurrency support is excellent as well. You definitely need to pick up a few new concepts, but the time is well spent as once you get a hang of those things, your productivity will be 10x - you don't have to wrangle with primitive concurrency constructs.
PHP.net is no longer listed as a suspicious site
8000 people 'working' on it most definitely helps get initial usage off the ground for apps that require a network effect. But you are right, this was my initial concern as well. People and product management seems as though it will be the major challenge for Assembly. However this is an enormous opportunity to go meta and dog food new distributed labor management systems and structures. Valve Software + "The Cloud".
Hey just thought I would give you an update on my progress. I have so far covered pretty much all the client functionality that you had and a few added in myself. The functionality is like I said in my previous comment, where the host is the only one that plays the music, but both host and all clients connected can interact with the player/playlist in realtime and all the data is updated in realtime for everyone connected in that room. I will be uploading to github soon after some more testing :)

Here is a screenshot as a teaser: http://cl.ly/image/1l1Z0i3u1D2W
High school sports are correlated with academic achievement: http://newswire.uark.edu/articles/20127/it-s-not-either-or-s...
I'm a C# dev too and I agree with you on the lack of "Darwinean selection". Definitely a downside of working on the Microsoft stack. Some of the great innovations coming out of the FOSS community seem to take a long time to reach us.

On the other hand, we miss a lot of the churn caused by people chasing after the latest js library, which also seems to be a big preoccupation of the FOSS community. If you're building software that has to last for years then stability of the underlying platform and having fewer ways to do something can be an advantage.
If you're willing to relax safety standards, you can easily do it with Home Depot parts. You just have to be mechanically inclined and somewhat clever. It doesn't have to look like a traditional firearm (grip, magazine, chamber, barrel, etc), all it has to be able to do is ignite a propellant and push a bullet down a tube.
That is not a catch-22, that's a filter.
Some initial thoughts on Redis
Average, Min, Max And Mode Of A List
Dwight D. Eisenhower - most notably the leader of the Allied Expeditionary Forces during WWII. I shudder to think where we'd be if Hitler were allowed to continue...
Well, you could make sure they're working? Or double-check that none of your whitelisted sites are doing anything too suspicious. Or maybe just for gloating :)
This smells bad to me. Even by Silicon Valley standards, that's way too much growth, too quickly. This smells like some adult (or more likely, group of adults) with a ready-and-waiting Pyramid scheme is using a 16-year-old girl as their marketing story. I hope she comes out of this with something other than millions of dollars of debt in her personal name or something.

Edit: I've been inspired to sign up for a Google Alert on "Origami Owl". I shall test my nose for accuracy.
Where can I report tests failing here? http://knockoutjs.com/spec/runner.html
Looks interesting, but the name made me think it was a new API or something. Perhaps not the best choice (though cool).
Narcolepsy: A Geek's Guide
That's just convenience. Do you really think many people will keep forking $X00 for PCs just for a little bit of convenience needed only once in a while? I respectfully disagree. A couple of anecdotes, for lack of evidence:

My grandfather (89 years old today) switched to the iPad. He was one of the pioneer of computer usage in France (in the steal industry)... at a time when programs were punched on cards! He retired before the mouse/keyboard thingy became popular, and never quite managed to fully grasp it when he got a computer ten years ago. He is not switching back, the iPad is way easier for him.

My parents went full iPad without knowing it: after getting one a year ago they realized that they just aren't using their laptops anymore. The iPad is just much nicer to browse the internet. In short the iPad is better for them 80% of the time, and worse 20% of the time. It can only get better with time, as we get better at making touch interfaces.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating anything, I just think that's where the market is heading, and it's not coming back to the PC world I (and probably you) grew up in. I for one will keep using my laptop... but I know I'm in the minority.
I think I repeat this every time Apple releases a new Macbook model, but here it is anyways.

I was a Swiss trained watchmaker before I switched careers and became a software developer. Back in the 40s through 60s, both the Swiss and American watch companies standardized on a 6-point case back that was removable with a two or three-pronged adjustable wrench. The same design is still being used for the most part in middle luxury brands. Though, if you ever look at the back of a modern mid-100 dollar watch (Casio, off-brands, etc.), you'll probably see a little lip where you can place the blade of a knife. Giving the knife a slight twisting motion easily pops the back off, giving anyone the ability to change the battery. But go take a look at some of the higher luxury brands and you'll see various variations of case backs. Rolex uses a fluted design unique to themselves. Breitling uses a design similar to the older 6-point, but it's more like a 18-sided polygon that requires a wrench with flat jaws. Omega uses a design with a number of deep holes in the case back, requiring a wrench with points that fit loosely on the back (instead of tightened onto it).

The reasons for the "proprietary" case back designs, especially with Rolex, is exactly the same as Apple using non-standard Pentalobe screws, which you point out. These things are not serviceable to 95% of the population (and if you think that number is high, go visit the mid-west for a week and get out of the big city costal echo-chambers). I can't tell you how many times some wiseguy walked into my shop with a small container containing all but a couple pieces of his watch asking me to put it back together after they took it apart to do some trivial task, most of the time one that probably didn't require any disassembly to begin with.

If you think you can personally take apart a retina MacBook Pro and replace the trackpad, no one is stopping you from buying the special screwdriver and doing it yourself with help from iFixit, but Apple certainly isn't going to honor that warranty. Requiring at least one hoop for you to jump through in order to even get the back off is enough evidence for them to know that anyone walking through their door with their product rattling around in an altoids tin intentionally decided to disassemble the thing themselves. It's a premeditative action, instead of an accidental impulse.
I don't know what's "comfortable" about staring at text through a cheese cloth all day. I find the graininess to be fatiguing. The best setup is a non-matte display with good anti-glare coating and good room lighting.

The best display I've seen for coding is probably the one on the Surface Pro, which is optically bonded to further increase clarity and reduce reflections. I haven't spent much time with an rMBP though.
This was a good perspective on Google Glass. It is the first blog I've read about Glass that doesn't come off as pretentious. It actually sounded rather down to earth and was, consequently, a very useful review of the technology.

Also, I thought I would share my favorite quote from the article:

>Understandable. The future is big, kids, and your heads are still small.You must be this tall to ride this ride.
Yep, its asks it for files with the 'com.apple.quarantine' flag, which is attached to downloaded files.

You can see its value with:

xattr -p com.apple.quarantine <filename>

And remove it with:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine <filename>

Binaries/application bundles that roll out of your linker/xcodebuild do not have that attribute. Hence, no bugging :).
>Which component?

Cypress Semiconductor CY8C24794-24LTXI Programmable System-on-Chip
Surely Paul the Baptist was far more influential than Jesus - there were quite a few crazies wandering around in those times telling people to sell all of their things and follow them to paradise. It took quite a bit of admin and organisation to form a religion out of the stories and rumours that were left.
totally agree. they seem to claim that their software gives legit dma and compromised device protection, which is a big claim.

there is no information about how this tech actually accomplishes this on their site. i suspect it's "stuff everything in the TPM because you can trust hw crypto" from normal memory, but this is just a guess. i would expect that the hw assurance claim is tied to storing id info in the TPM as well.
It's opt-out, unless they changed it recently. I've lost count of how many times I've had to uncheck that checkbox.
Wow, those are some interesting links.

As somebody who's learned a foreign language to near-fluency as an adult, I've spent a lot of time trying to figure out how my brain infers a grammar from large quantities of input. Subjectively, it feels like my brain learns fixed phrases, and then notices that certain chunks can be replaced by subtrees of the appropriate type.

There are complications: inflections, gender, agreement, probability, and so on. But still, grammar compression looks like a fascinating formulation of the problem.
Yeah I know, I'm terrible at choosing names, I started my developements with this name then by lack of better idea i've kept it.
I love that so many of my favorite James Bond fantasies are coming to life nowadays, with a modern, internet twist!

Where's the room where you can sit and stroke the cat on your lap?
Also in Coral Cache: http://www.alienvault.com.nyud.net/open-threat-exchange/blog...
apt-cache search foo

Done :). But I see your point. There's usually the library, the development headers plus static link library, and possibly some command line tools.

And usually the headers aren't that big (with the notable exception of template-heavy C++), so it's much simpler installing everything.

But such splitting primarily occurs in the Debian family.
Gutenberg - printing press made the sum of human knowledge exponentially easier to transmit and expand

(random article from Google: http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,36527,0...)
I'm not sure to what extent this works with brew, but you could try using virtualenv to manage different environments?

I've never had to deal with multiple configurations on the same mac (my solution, off hand, would be to use debian VMs, possibly through SSH rather than a desktop GUI if I needed >1 at a time.)
Let us also not forget it's power to literally punish ungulates as well.
Show HN: CoLearnr - Collaborate and Learn for free
In many states, it'd be perfectly legal to tote a rifle in a downtown mall.
...is open source.
First and foremost you need to understand finance and the numbers (what is behind them), tool is not relevant for this.

However, proper tool does make things more efficient. Based on practical experience Excel is excellent for financial modelling.

As for R, Python + Pandas, databases and CSV files - they are mostly useful for supporting and ad-hoc analysis, esp. for sales and marketing data.
Use old versions of uTorrent. Before it was bought out by BitTorrent, Inc.

Now it's just another parasite on the internet.
These hardware KV interfaces are still fairly low-level. Fixed-size values, etc. So you'll still need to have some abstraction layer that handles that. You might not call it a filesystem but I bet it'll look a lot like one.
... for various definitions of "almost". Depending on your needs, Open/Libre may run circles around Excel, or fail laughably. Just like Emacs vs. Vi, Language1 vs. Language2, it all depends on your needs and available time.
Currently have the same problem on one of my machines. Luckily, I knew already about the culprit.

Really nasty stuff -- never using uTorrent again. Was already getting annoyed by latest updates and ads anyway/

To save me (still have to remove SearchProtect) and others here some time... any pointers to website or other reference on how to really remove this thing?
It does not seem to monitor actual requests but only references. I block a lot of domains but they still appeared in this add-on.
I don't see any evidence of a pyramid scheme here, which is unsustainable. This model is similar to what, e.g. Miglio has used for decades (http://www.miglio.com/). That being said, the growth is suspicious when you consider there are established players.

It smells more like modified multi-level marketing scheme, which when you read the following is not surprising, and fits your 16-year-old-as-marketing theory:

"According to CEO Robin Crossman, employee numbers fluctuate tend to fluctuate." ... "Crossman, who had previously acted as a consultant with the company for several months early this year before becoming CEO in May, boasts a resume that includes Amway Global..."

It sounds like the original business was a straightforward jewelry side business, which ended up becoming something like an "Amway Jewelry" once Crossman got involved.
here in the UK ammunition is as difficult to acquire as guns are, so printing a gun is not even half the battle.
So it isn't strictly better just more standalone. I happen to use the other plugins already so I don't mind the dependency.

But I will try airline out. :)
I for one am very excited about all of the new functions and classes available. http://codex.wordpress.org/Version_3.7 - things like wp_extract_urls() and a WP_Http_Streams class look really exciting.

Not so excited about auto updates, but every site I build is in some kind of version control anyway.
Ouah!
If you only use iCloud for calendar, contacts etc., you can disable Documents & Data in the iCloud preferences pane. That will skip all the iCloud dialogs in TextEdit, Pages etc., and revert to 10.6 behaviour.