skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Der Spiegel reportedly approached authorities with a US document that contained Mrs Merkel's mobile phone number"

It's unclear whether that means she was specifically targeted, or whether that actually means the number was tapped or if it was "merely" metadata. If the US were simply hoovering cellular metadata in the Berlin area, as has been the accusation elsewhere, it wouldn't be terribly surprising for her number to turn up. But I don't think that's quite the same thing being implied by the headline(s).
>The ecig industry is the tobacco industry.

A large part of the ecig industry is small businesses making liquid and selling it out of little shops and small websites. We have two of these shops in my little Podunk town now. It's kind of amazing to see, and I wonder how long it will manage to last.

I doubt that the future of ecigs is going to be these shitty disposable toys and prepackaged cartridges. Everyone I've known who started on ecigs pretty quickly moved on to higher quality refillable deals.
http://replicant.us/about/

"Replicant is a fully free Android distribution running on several devices."
Well first of all, and as much as your deep-set hatred for smoking may not let you see it, you get a MUCH different feeling from a long drag on an American Spirit than you do from smacking yourself in the head with a hammer. One can be described as quite pleasant, the other quite...blunt.

I'm not a regular smoker, but I'll take a drag from a friend's every few months, and I enjoy it. But I also lost a family member to lung cancer, so I am particularly careful.

From my own anecdotal evidence, people start smoking in three ways:
1) Started as a kid under 16. Usually through parental influence (if they're smoking around the house a lot, you become very likely to). Otherwise through peer pressure (cool kids behind the bleachers).
2) Started while drunk. See the sister-comment for details.
3) Dated a smoker. This one will get ya, and definitely was the closest I ever got to smoking regularly. Once you get used to the smell of it, the taste of it, the release of a post-coital cig... I'm sure you can imagine how it can be to be deeply in love with someone and have incredible sense-memory connections with their brand of cigarettes.

Hopefully this might give you a little more compassion for people who have become smokers through any avenue, and instead of mocking them for their choices, help them seek cessation therapy.
Vigilante paedophile hunters ruining lives with Internet stings
Head of NSA blasts reporters for 'selling' leaked documents
When I was student in France, in a "grande ecole" it was all Windows. When I did an Msc in a standard university (Jussieu), they were using Ubuntu. This was in 2005, maybe it has changed...
Well, they aren't getting instant gratification now, are they?

I suspect a lot could be cached - that is you take a list of questions up front, what comes back from the "ticket reply" contains any further questions you'd need to answer and enough canned data to process the replies immediately. So you wouldn't need to take a ticket more than once.

But even if you did need to, at least it would be something people could fill in and walk away from. They wouldn't be kept around, drumming their fingers and worrying about being late to work.
Comcast = ?
You remembered me of some stupid browsers that insist in filtering the image, making some specialized pixel art sites look absolutely horrible.
FWIW, spying on the leader of a foreign nation is not in anyway dumping on the constitution. Not going to make commentary on other programs, those are a completely different matter, but spying on the leaders of other nations, allies or not, is not illegal nor should it be surprising.
what would be the churn rate?
I honestly thought most people knew that about EC2 as one of the core "trade offs" or engineering decision that allows the platform to be what it is, compared to a more traditional VPS provider.
"I've never smoked a cigarette but I have been addicted to caffeine multiple times in my life."

Woops, a little bit of liberty taken there. The caffeine-> nicotine comparison refers to the isolated stimulants, not the act of smoking. People don't seem to be primarily addicted to nicotine in the sense of a cigarette, but the combination of nic + everything else in there.

You don't have to smoke to get a nicotine fix. You don't even need tobacco products.
a) There are ~850k housing benefit claimants in Greater London[1], out of a total population of just under 5mm.[2] That's ~17%. Not a majority, to be sure, but also not small enough to discount entirely.

b) Just because some landlords do not want to deal with non-claimant tenants doesn't mean that non-claimant tenants will only want to rent from such landlords, if it means cutting themselves off from lower rents. Theoretically removing those 850k people from the housing market would undoubtedly make the prices fall, if only for a while.

1: http://www.londonspovertyprofile.org.uk/indicators/topics/re...

2: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_London#Populati...
Well, they also probably know that most sites won't look perfect in their old browser.

Don't bother getting animations to work in IE6, but make sure your site runs okay without them. The latter is doable.
This just shows he is willing to lie to get his way. Again can't be trusted. He told Merkel that if he knew, he would have stopped it. That's the smoking gun. Proves he lied.

http://weaselzippers.us/2013/10/26/breaking-report-obama-lie...
No this is totally fine. I'd say the slightly more rare thing about this workflow is the fact that you squash multiple commits for a feature together. At least at larger companies it's nice to maintain a series of commits that lead to a feature (rather than getting a giant commit that plops the feature down with no sense of how it slowly developed).

I added support for merge --no-ff since a fair number of people like that workflow:
http://pcottle.github.io/learnGitBranching/?NODEMO&command=g...

but maybe --squash should be next
As the OP says you can usually solve this problem by applying padding to a element that has box-sizing: border-box set.

calc() will obviously have some niche uses though, and given the creativity of the industry I'm sure some neat tricks will rise out of it.
I'd much rather they just publish them, Cryptome-style, than keep people addicted to a steady drip of sexy scandal. It's a lot harder to understand what's actually going on when you've got the press yelling at you.
I don't think it's likely that a huge corporation whose entire IT infrastructure was built around Windows and Microsoft software would migrate to Linux. It would be a big technical and political risk for the executives: if something went wrong, the company would be seriously hurt and they'd be fired. Upgrading to a newer version of Windows would be technically easier and politically much, much safer.
Yes, thanks for the remark! Some people of that course sent us really nice feedback. The list of universities and courses using MG grows, which is really cool.
Getting caught is bad form.
RMS for president, then?
Added to the list that we're curating on theneeds [1].
As always, feel free to reach me for missing material.

[1] http://www.theneeds.com/learn/top-content/startupschool
This case was about an EBS-backed instance, which is shared storage. Either way, you could avoid centrally shared storage by migrating the backing store first, then the running instance.

In any case, I'm not really trying to criticise here. Just pointing out an engineering trade-off.
In the frame where the glitch happens the puck still looks quite far from the lens. If the mesh was positioned that far it would probably be visible and mess up autofocus.

B frames or buffering would only add <100ms latency, while live transmission already has at least 1s lag, before even considering 'tape delay'. I'm betting on processing delay as the explanation.
In that case, I just pop into the reflog and undo the squash.
Another website that requires loading an advertising script/tracker (Disqus) in order to show actual content.

Authors: please stop using this pattern!
Yep. Exactly like SS Totenkopf. Nothing conventional there too.
9 months ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5090546
Ok so let’s say a big company/government agency decides to migrate off of Windows, and onto Linux. This much has happened before.

Why then, would this organisation that obviously has some kind of IT staff who have some kind of training and experience, pick Ubuntu?

It’s like saying “I want Linux, but with all the shitty bits of Windows added in by default for me”.
Or two people could work together, closer to that was envisioned by Engelbart : http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
The sad part is, they probably did hack the upvotes. That was their best effort.
It isn't like the world didn't have any interest in German policy 3 years ago. Not when Angela Merkel was deciding whether to continue with bailing out Greece, create massive changes in EU fiscal policy or otherwise use Germany's new found place as the dominant EU player for other ends.

Quite why Germany's intelligence services let her use "an old Nokia" is beyond me anyway - it isn't just vulnerable to the NSA spying on her, it's vulnerable to all sorts of people, let alone states, spying on her.

All this talk on here of the need for digital security, random people talking of needing to deniably encrypt hard drives and not being able to trust Lavabit and the German authorities couldn't, or didn't try, to persuade their elected leader to use something more than an old phone.
You'll notice the same thing in the examples given in role playing game books. It's relatively common to use a female actor as an example, though I cannot remember why.

It's not a matter of being grammaticaly incorrect or correct, but rather to imply that for this example, the programmer is female. It's goal seems to be inclusion. The other reason is that perhaps that the programmer the author thought about when writing this is a lady.
If the language is called C-, how come the website is named Cminusminus?
but spying on all Americans is dumping on the constitution.. as well as assassinating American citizens without any court order/trial (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/world/middleeast/07yemen.h...).

EDIT: another source http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-202_162-57585798/who-were-the-4-...
blah :: Type + blah :: Type is gonna get parsed as blah :: (Type + blah :: Type), just add more parens there. Also, you need to convert the result back to a string before calling putStrLn.
So long as both of the anonymously sourced stories are true... We don't know what Obama said and we don't know what Obama approved. For that matter, we don't know what the NSA actually did. It's safe to say that the NSA has been using their "required to fight terrorism" programs for non-terrorism spying, but beyond that everything is murky.
How does C- compare to CIL of .NET?
It is useful for people who already have experienced backpains and are willing to sacrifice bit of comfyness to gain long-term comfort.
This all makes sense under QE and other easy money programs (which have a general tendency of inflating P/E multiples) but what happens if/when the programs stop? If 1999-2000 is any indication, those companies could easily see a 90% haircut and still be overvalued under traditional analyses (AMZN P/E is currently 1286.56, for example)
Yes, and that's the direction Amazon want you to be thinking in. They could throw engineering effort at reducing the likelihood of instances going away in this sort of scenario, but they've chosen not to.
It's not delivering instant gratification now.

More importantly, it's very standard practice to do asynchronous jobs and notify users on completion, as seen in the data export or input features on many web services. Whether users get results immediately or need to be notified is a UX issue, and a requirement that the entire system be designed to deliver results immediately sounds exactly like the kind of speculative, unconventional UX requirement that non-UX people come up with around a conference table.
I currently live in Rotherhithe and like the area apart from the rubbish broadband, I get around 2 megabits.

http://forums.thinkbroadband.com/notspot/3998475-rotherhithe...
Yup, I didn't mean to open a negativity fest. It's a double edged sword with the shallow examples (e.g. calculating BMI). LYAH does a very good job of explaining every single detail in those lines of code, I've never left an example confused but at the same time the simplicity keeps you from having questions you want to explore.

I don't think this is a bad thing. In any mathematics class I ever excelled in I spent a lot of time mindlessly executing the mechanics and knowing the names and pieces that were relevant, once I knew all that it became very easy to see the interpretations and the applications.

I think I'll finish LYAH before doing one of these more application oriented tutorials.
Statistical Data Mining Tutorials (2005)
You assume here that size doesn't matter, when it might. If the difference is only initial download size in your game, and is a few dozen MBs, then yes I agree. but for some applications, this is content that is loaded in runtime, and since size DOES matter in this regard, some applications will need to upscale images.
http://apbox.co

it is cool because it allows businesses to become more profitable by allowing companies to negotiate discounts on supplier and service provider invoices.

basically sellers can get paid early (adding liquidity to their business) and buyers can profit on discounts, adding thousands to their cashflow (which they will never get from a bank).

you can think of it as twitter meets dropbox meets ebay for the supply chain.

checkout our blog too:
http://blog.apbox.co
They're free to fork the segment of android that google hasn't locked into their own closed-source ecosystem.

Many AOSP applications have been abandoned by google in favor of their proprietary applications.
You're asking the wrong question. The question is how chase/no-chase policies would trend against a control. These types of social experiments are very hard to conduct, because there are so many confounding variables.
Why is major marketing collateral still published as PDFs?
We do this differently at Meldium (YC W13) and reliably provide a way to share passwords without end-users seeing them. The login occurs on the server side and only the session is transferred to the sharee's browser. Thus, the password is truly never shared or sent down over the wire.
Why is raising the gas tax not an option? I mean, almost noone wants to pay more taxes, but if the road fund needs to take money then it's far simpler to raise the existing tax rate rather than implement a new process, collection agency, and monitoring tools.

The rate listed in article (18 cents/gallon) is not a big influence to prevent driving - it's ten times less than the gas excise tax I pay in EU, which comes out to a bit less than $2 per US gallon. Business doesn't stop because of it, and there's extra motivation to reduce the polluting transportation.
The "old nokia" she used is actually a party (as in political party :) mobile. The reason for owning and using that mobile is simple: Most of the people Angela Merkel communicates with do not own a secure mobile that's encryption capable.
They do it the same way as narcissistic techies do it. They "listen" for @ mentions throughout the day via twitter clients. Years ago I tweeted about comcast service issues and 5 min later I received a phone call from a comcast service manager. They must have a customer service team who deals with customers on twitter and a small team of "managers" who jump on cases to put out the fires that need immediate attention.
The article makes, or at least reports, the following claims about the tapping of Merkel's phone: (1) it began in 2002 (when, yes, GWB was in office), (2) Obama was told about it in 2010, and (3) at that time he approved it and allowed it to continue.

If all this is true, then it seems to me it's perfectly fair to "pin it on Bush" and to blame Obama for the fact that it continued past 2010.

It also seems worth remarking (a) that actual evidence for the claims seems to be in short supply, and (b) that if they're correct it's pretty weird that Obama wasn't told until 2010 that the NSA was tapping the phone of the leader of a major foreign nation allied with the US.
In a class I took on image processing, this was offered as the definitive way to do non-integer scaling. Apple certainly didn't invent it.
"Well, they aren't getting instant gratification now, are they?"

Indeed!

But I was referring to the initial architecture of the site. E.g. the March objective, “Let’s just make sure it’s not a third-world experience.” expressed by Henry Chao, CMS CIO, who in theory should have been in the front lines. Sigh, I bet he was, knew what was coming but didn't have the authority to make it work, or as you implicitly suggest, down-grade the architecture/expectations into something that might possibly work in the time left.

And then there's the last minute (well, month) change to requiring a heavy duty, validated up the wazoo registration before doing anything. Doubt they could have made that work in less than 2 months ... maybe. This was needed, but at lower transaction rates, e.g. otherwise window shopping would allow a lot of people to see they couldn't get a better deal through the exchange (e.g. no subsidies for you, which only the federal system is allowed to calculate).

Suppose prior to that they arranged for "X rate of idempotent reads" with e.g. the IRS, and now they need a 10/100/1000X rate, meaning they should have cached everything that doesn't change quickly. Almost certainly too late to do it by then.

My, my, years from now this is going to be one of the most significant case studies in project development.
Batman-adv 2013.4.0 released
At the company I work for, IE users actually bring in higher than average revenue.
With all due respect, you are clearly biased. As your Twitter profile states, you are a "Flavorist, tobacco chemist & design junkie. Trying to build an online marketplace for ecig vendors."

Your arguments are illogical. You incorrectly use terms like Strawman Argument to respond to a simple illustration. I never said you claimed your products were all natural, just that what you did say is just as meaningless as if you did. You say you only use chemicals from DOW in an attempt to imply they are safe to ingest. But this conveniently ignores the fact that DOW was the primary manufacturer of both Napalm and Agent Orange. Just because they are a large chemical company and their reagents are pure doesn't mean the people using their products are using them correctly.

Please don't take the lack of further reply as anything more than it's not worth the time.
It's the disconnect rule: any article which requires disabling ghostery/disconnect to read or which have 10 or more trackers merit flagging. If the content is good, there is most likely a better home with fewer trackers / ads (which is not to say that I'm against ads entirely, but there is a limit)
How can NSA tap something in Germany?
Of course it's not like the bigger pack will be showing up in 2015 Leafs. I'm guessing the test version has no rear seats or trunk space. It also wasn't a test like "test this before it goes into production", the Leaf was modified for a race. A stock Leaf won't make an hour running flat out (electronically limited to 93mph). The bigger pack, as far as I can tell, was installed to make it more competitive.
It doesn't work on OS X Mavericks.
I'm actually considering buying a tablet for an elderly relative, an iPad would have been ideal were is not for the fact that it cannot stream flash, they watch news clips and things and so that is a deal breaker... so Android it is!
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Moronic. So to create tax revenue, let's spend tax revenue on a device, data collection, analysis, complex billing, which of course the gov having a great history of being good stewards with our tax dollars, will overpay. All for something that can double as a spying device. yay.

Just raise the gas tax to make up for lost revenue. Sick of hearing "we are addicted to oil" every state of the union and the answer is right there. Solves the road revenue problem as well.
Yes, "they both suck" is a reasonable conclusion.
At one point in time, Zynga had a good price. I was scared to accept their stock as compensation at that time, and I'm relieved about not pursuing it now.

With Amazon, I actually daydream about the stock taking a nose dive right before I get my next compensation offer. That way I get more stock. I have never had to worry about the long term future value of the company, so a dip is an arbitrage opportunity, as opposed to a risk (like Zynga).
Queues solve some problems. Others that are read heavy, but rarely updated (queries for which Doctors are on the system) can be cached and read from slaves. Problems that benefit from being async should be async, those that aren't shouldn't. It's usually pretty easy to do both in a system.
Useful tip:

"By default Clojure operates with natural numbers as instances of Java's long primitive type. When a primitive integer operation results in a value that too large to be contained in a primitive value, a java.lang.ArithmeticException is thrown. Clojure provides a set of alternative math operators suffixed with an apostrophe: +', -', *', inc', and dec'. These operators auto-promote to BigInt upon overflow, but are less efficient than the regular math operators."

So you can write

(inc' Long/MAX_VALUE)

instead of

(inc (bigint Long/MAX_VALUE))
Apple to reease iPhone 6 with a big screen next summer
Wow, that's .. incredible hubris.

There are good programmers and there are bad programmers. There are good managers and there are bad managers. The good variants of either are very valuable and can deliver huge value to very diverse businesses. The bad ones, not so much.

Since the computer-based automation of everything is a reasonably recent phenonomen, there have been more low-hanging fruit to be picked by bad programmers. Management is a much more mature field, so having "Teach yourself Management in 24 hours"-level competence is much less likely to have a positive yield.

What you're describing is just general intelligence and analytical thought. It's harder and rarer than most people think, and both managers and programmers to be really good at their jobs. But just as there are less demanding management positions in the world, there is an emergent class of programmers who are perfectly capable of building and maintaining simple CRUD apps to spec, but wouldn't need to know half of what is in this guide to be effective.
University Mashup
I've Never Wished I Was Less Technical
I used Transmission way back when it was only for Mac, around 2008-2008, but since then I've switched to Deluge as my main torrent client. I find its got the snappiest interface, and that it handles remote administration the best.
Given our current federal procurement rules, is it even legal for the government to discriminate between bids on the basis of the past competence of the people making the bids?
For other similar gaffes, see: http://attrition.org/errata/sec-co/

It's amazing what kind of things slip by.
Why Buffer getting hacked was a good thing
My fluid is mixed up in Ontario, Canada. I still have to trust the manufacturer on where he gets his ingredients, but like you say there are many established businesses which have a reputation for wanting to do right by their customers.