skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is one of the worst, easiest to detect, form of steganography. Publishers like Springer Verlag have many papers and books about detecting that type of steganography.

While analysis (breaking) of steganography is long lived there hasn't been much work on creating new better forms.

Just as things like PGP are still hard for regular people to use, and there's no real encrypted chat, there's not much in the way of strong stego.

Obvious caveats apply here: How much does the text need to be hidden? Who does it need to be hidden from? Me hiding my angsty poetry from my sister doesn't need much and anything is going to be okay. But me hiding material that could get me killed, from a well funded government? I need something better than a reference github project.
Curated:

Crooks and Liars apparently broke this:

http://crooksandliars.com/karoli/california-assembly-gop-ast...

California Republicans are desperate and shameless. In the past two weeks, GOP Assembly members have sent mailings out on what appears to be the state's dime to their constituents about health insurance. Only, they don't direct those people to CoveredCA.com to sign up. Instead, they send them to their own astroturf version at the URL CoveringHealthCareCA.com.

HuffPo:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/12/03/california-republic...

Republicans in the California State Assembly are directing voters to a website purporting to be a "resource guide" for the state's new health care exchange. However, the GOP-backed guide to "helping you navigate federal health care changes" paints the Affordable Care Act in a largely negative light.

The site, Coveringhealthcareca.com, features different sections for insured individuals, uninsured individuals and employers, as well as for seniors and young adults. Each section offers details on what the new law means for each group. However, those details are often drawn from Republican talking points on the law's drawbacks.

Article also notes the site was created in August but has been the subject of recent mailers to constituents.

Wonkette offers its own spin:

http://wonkette.com/535557/hero-california-republicans-do-th...

Hey, this is a funny trick! Crooks and Liars lets us know that Republican members of the California Assembly have been sending out informational mailers (PDF link) directing people to a website that will answer all their questions about the new healthcare law. Isn’t that nice of them? The mailer directs them to CoveringHealthCareCA.com, which looks like a super-official health insurance site, but is actually run by the Assembly’s Republican Caucus, and provides decidedly slanted “resources” about the dystopian future of healthcare.
Android has shipped Chrome as the default browser since Android 4.1, which makes up more than 50% of Android devices.

http://developer.android.com/about/dashboards/index.html
Unfortunately upgrading between major releases on CentOS/RHEL is very problematic and it's advised to do reinstall. Where on deb based distros it's just dist-upgrade.

Nowhere does anyone advise to reinstall. Can you quote your source please.

managing software with yum is just plainly broken compared to apt.

You're trolling. How is it broken?

Multilib problems

Trolling again. Which problems?

For example I didn't find the way to compile qtlandcarte

Ah okay. So you're asking for help. Well, what was the problem?

Apt I must say is ages ahead yum.

Trolling again. Say how it is ages ahead.
I liked this joke: "But, we also may be reaching our limit given our current methods and capabilities. In the United States, the recent software behind the health care insurance marketplace is a reported 500 million lines of code."
Thanks for the heads up, I fixed that.
If you're not feeling ready for 3D graphics, Khan Academy has a neat set of interactive lessons where you learn to draw and animate basic shapes using the HTML5 Canvas API (Javascript):

https://www.khanacademy.org/cs/programming
Any specific instances of 9th Amendment BSery you can think of?
Sharing Rails Sessions With Non-Ruby Apps
Get creatives paid and donates to great causes
Extremely shameful. This is tyranny by the standards of any country in the world.
>Value is not intrinsic, it is not in things. It is within us; it is the way in which man reacts to the conditions of his environment. Neither is value in words and doctrines, it is reflected in human conduct. It is not what a man or groups of men say about value that counts, but how they act. --Ludwig von Mises

A 'price' is a historical datum of an exchange. I valued my thing at X of your things, probably in terms of monetary units; you likewise valued my things in some sort of agreeable way that we voluntarily made an exchange.

"Intrinsic value" implies, "People will like this shit no matter what." Real value is subjective and only created by acting human beings.
This is grossly simplistic view of the world. Enterprise sales does not work this way at all. And no financial company/banker will recommend your super-duper product to anyone; in fact, some purchasing officers will ask you to NOT sell your product to their competition before they consider buying from you. In industrial supplies business, some factories require you to not sell their product to anyone one else in their target market region.
Agreed, I don't have much to add, I've been on both sides of the fence. Your comments hit it exactly, conjuring something from nothing takes amazing talent. Taking that and making it better is arduous but there is a path there, it's not easy I know, but the path is there.
To paraphrase a saying - aim for Carmack, maybe then at least, you'll hit Notch.
Honda and Vanguard absolutely grew through word of mouth, and NBC probably did too but it was before I was born. I compare notes with friends when buying a car, and people are not shy about recommending Honda or Toyota. Very few of them recommend GM or Ford.

I also heard about Vanguard through word-of-mouth, where everybody gave the general advice that indexing funds are much more sane than other investing systems, and Vanguard was the leader in that space.
I like this, setup was smooth. However, I almost didn't bother due to the lack of screenshots. The video was not that persuasive; I decided to take a chance on it because this is an area where I've been actively looking for a better solution for s couple of years now. I just urge you to put some of the textual information shared here onto the website itself.

Oh, and why can't I import my existing and voluminous bookmark collection?
Maybe he means the upstream RHEL 6.x releases?

* 6.1 2011-05-19
* 6.2 2011-12-06
* 6.3 2012-06-20
* 6.4 2013-02-21
* 6.5 2013-11-21
also with 4.4 they sort of broke/fixed the aosp browser, so things like text wrap is gone and zoom behavior acts similar to chrome.. almost forcing people to use chrome
Why Bitcoin is Dumb, Part II
There's a lot to this that rings true. I think the core idea here is that growing slowly, with your customers, is how you get big.

In those early days of running a business, spending money on marketing is no way to guarantee new revenue. Word of mouth almost always is. Plus, it's a hell of a lot cheaper.
Have you looked at this? https://github.com/mtoader/google-go-lang-idea-plugin. I haven't tried it but it's being actively developed and the feature list looks good.
100 Years of Breed “Improvement
For prescription opiate-based analgesics, You can't buy pretty much any of them in acetaminaphen-free form in the US.
I thought the same thing. Seems like the author messed up while converting radians to degrees, or something.

I changed it to

var angle = (Math.PI * 2 * Math.random());

But it has your problem as well. To be fair, a spray can also focuses the paint in the center like that :)
I do a lot of very informal writing online, mostly in Subreddits related to my field, but also in comments on news articles at places like Wired and Ars. I find that you learn almost as much from the (non-insane) comments as you do from the articles themselves. This is probably the same reason I use/read Reddit.
I do have some more academic writing published on Academia.edu and SSRN, but I don't engage in discussion there.
Best of luck!
It should be noted what this finding says about the state of the German government. It provides me rather significant trust and confidence in a government that is honest enough to put out such a statement in spite of the rather existential threat that Tesla and electric motors represent to the German auto industry and the whole German economy.

I find it encouraging that the German government is not cowering behind the protection of it's industry and rather saying "son, this is the competition. They are strong, and they are going to be touch to beat, but I am confident that you will work hard and become a better man by growing through the challenge"

Is that too dramatic?
Stream has started, launch in T-00:15:30.
I'm not sure what you think the "market value" is that employers won't pay. I'd guess it's something reasonable like the minimum you'd have to pay to get all the skilled workers you need. Raise your pay offer slowly, gradually attracting more people, until you have the people you need, and that amount of pay is the market rate.

But what if that rate of pay is more than the new employees are worth to the company, so hiring them would not benefit the company at all? Then it's not a market rate, because market rate isn't just the outer edge of what one side finds acceptable. If both sides don't find the rate acceptable, there's no market rate.

If a "greedy" employer refuses to pay what it takes to hire all the people they need, while their enlightened competitor does pay what it takes to get the necessary additional labor, one of those employers will have higher profits than the other, and the one with lower profits will be pressured by their investors to become more like the other.

That has been going on for centuries, and the result is a "labor shortage" in some areas, meaning companies (that always face competition from other companies) can't get all the labor they want at existing rates and wouldn't benefit from additional labor at higher rates. The problem may well be gradually driving the company out of business, but still, raising their wages would just drive them out of business faster.
I have not for the life of me been able to imagine the purpose of building a Chrome app. Now I can.... but wait... isn't it just a "lipstick on the pig" html5 web app?
There was a problem on the JetBrains site yesterday where it would erroneously not allow some license keys for upgrades. I also bought my IDEA license in the end-of-the-world sale last year, and the site wouldn't accept my key for an upgrade.

I wrote a note to JetBrains sales with the details, and they sent me a custom quote for the upgrade price - and it also looks like they fixed the bug in the site.

So try again with your original license key and you should be able to get the upgrade price. If that doesn't work, write to sales like I did and they will fix it for you.
I fail to see how per-capita stats mean much here.
Yes our enterprise offering allows for deployments on private networks (in house) or in private clouds (ex: Amazon VPC).

As JackDB requires a direct connection to your database it works best with cloud database as a service providers (ex: Heroku Postgres or Amazon RDS). You can connect it to a local network as well (quite a few folks do!) though you'll have to setup the firewall rules to accommodate it.
Is there any danger that the arbitrator exposes him/herself to by signing up to provide the service?
Looks somewhat similar to Amazon Locker: http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=2...
this is all very interesting, especially to see the end result, but as a rule i don't leak memory or use garbage collection.

again i am left feeling that garbage collection causes more problems than it solves. certainly every instance of debugging a memory 'leak' in that context is much harder than it needs to be (don't use gc or refcounting) - and also a slap in the face considering this is the problem its meant to solve anyway.

if you care this much about performance your biggest bottleneck is the gc - not just interms of performance cost, but the amount of your time you will waste solving a problem like this instead of optimising your code.

this is a problem i don't need to solve and pretty much everything i write is high performance code... whilst i know this isn't targetted optimisation, but a fun experiment, i would worry that people will read some kind of best practice here where it really isn't...
The shorter the code, the less room there is for bugs to hide. There are exceptions to that rule but they are not nearly as common as people make them out to be.
Yeah, unless they plan on delivering papers for about a century or two.
While I am no expert in chemistry he mentioned that one of the benefits of using water was the fact that it is in a liquid state and thus you could effectively store more energy within a finite amount of space. At least one of the noble gases (argon) does not compress down to a liquefied state, so perhaps that applies to the others? Large compression tanks are also quite heavy, so perhaps that is a consideration too.
How Coaches and the NYT 4th Down Bot Compare
i still don't get it... this is what my hard drive is for :P

just seems to me like making a mashup mess for its own sake, with little regard to the spirit of the service provided by dropbox.
I'm an almost 25-year veteran of the cable industry and I can tell you that Comcast and Time-Warner didn't grow huge via word-of-mouth. The benefits of cable service grew community systems by word-of-mouth, then Comcast and Time-Warner grew by acquiring and consolidating systems.

For example, Time Warner Cable Oceania now provides cable service to the entire Hawai'ian island chain, but they had just bought out the last two systems (by island) in 2002 when I visited. Where I live, Comcast acquired Adelphia, who had acquired AT&T, who had acquired TCI, who had acquired Telemedia.

The Robber-Barons of the 1920s consolidated steel, railroads and banking. Edison and Westinghouse (with Tesla's AC) consolidated small utility companies AND supplied most of the equipment.

I think acquisitions played a huge part in the growth of airplane companies too (McDonnell-Douglas was originally two companies) ... there are very few car companies now compared to the early part of the 1900s and most recently we've watched banks become huge through acquisitions.

Unfortunately, I think the premise of the article is completely wrong, but I wasted my time reading until the end and wondered how so little content could consume so many words. You grow big by knowing a market could be huge and then having the confidence to buy when the price is right (even if the indicators aren't in your favor at the moment).
And there are plugin developers making good money, server operators doing nothing but running Minecraft servers and living on donations and other monetization schemes. Was he supposed to make the best selling indie game in history and make it easy as pie for the modders to make a living too? He was one guy.
Currently there are no fees at all, but I'm planning on charging fees for verified accounts and verified ratings when I finish building the rating system (its pretty much MVP at this stage). The terms of service you noted are somewhat too broad for my taste, but that's the legal-speak my lawyer required for covering myself.

The functionality that it currently has will always remain free, with no required fees. The verified accounts/ratings would be optional, and act both as the profit model and as a kind of fidelity bond [1] to make scamming less economical. If you could replace accounts every day and send tons of fake ratings for no cost, it'll be easy to cheat. If you're investing some money into your identity, the the users using your services would know that you have something to lose by harming your reputation.

[1] https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Fidelity_bonds
How many movies or tv shows have you made? Have you ever told someone that a tv show was bad? I bet the answers are zero and plenty, respectively.

The kind of argument you're making is a very big fallacy.
Awesome, thanks! Published work is - whether the author thinks about it this way or not - now considered just a foundation/framework for ongoing discussions. If you can filter the batty (which I hope we can help with), then the comments are really an addendum to the original article.
>You're suggesting as a last-minute choice to use luna?

Yes, as an additional source of business on top of those those who have planned ahead and shipped directly to Luna's warehouse.

In this 'after-the-miss' case, Luna could offer to solve an acute, possibly unexpected problem, vs. being one of several options for those who planned ahead (many discussed on this thread: ship to work, use Amazon Locker, etc).

>That may be harder as UPS checks IDs.

That's why I suggested interfacing with carriers. UPS MyChoice allows you to sign electronically for packages and give special instructions. I imagine FedEx has a similar offering.
This is consistent with my hypothesis that state budget cuts are the primary driver of tuition increases.

Two words: administrative bloat!
Three French Entrepreneurs just funded 101 startups (25000€ each)
2000 ideas were submitted, 290 pitchers. 101 teams got funded today with 25000€ each...<p>The Trio is composed of french most known serial-entrepreneurs :
- Xaviel Niel, founder and CEO of Free.fr, second ISP in France.
- Marc Simoncini is the founder of Meetic, main french online dating service.
- Jacques-Antoine Granjon, founder of vente-privee.com, French ecommerce company that pioneered the model of online flash sales
In normal countries schools are built somewhere central, and the students walk or cycle to school. But in America it's the opposite, they are built on highways on the edge of town, and the students are required to take the bus or have their parents pick them up (by car of course).

It's not only that there is no city planning in the US, it's also that the people don't mind, and then you get outcomes like this.
All this Political Correctness BS is a threat. We have to deal with Al-Quaida and others who want to destroy our Western Civilization from outside and then we have Leftists who do all they can to destroy it from inside.

Boys are usually more interested in computers. Males are more inclined to manipulate things (manipulate like in play, try to understand how they work, etc.) and relations that have to do with things. Females are more inclined to manipulate people (manipulate like in play, try to understand how they work, etc) and relations that have to do with people. And no, I don't have a scientific research to "prove" that. It's an observation that derives from common sense.

Ever noticed how women enjoy watching soap operas, but don't give a damn about a football game?
Ever notice how men enjoy watching football game, but don't give a damn about a soap opera?

Because what men see in a football game that women don't is: strategy, tactics, manipulations, doing everything to win the game. Females don't see that there. They just see a bunch of brutes running around trying to get hold of a some stupid ball.

But women can definitely appreciate a soap opera. Because there they will see: strategy, tactics, manipulations, doing everything to win the game. Males don't see it there. Because this is not about things. It's about people and their relations. They are blind to that as females are blind to see interactions among objects. Males just see there a bunch of crazy people dramatizing.

Now, to expect this little girl not to play with dolls to mimic social interactions but to play with objects is BS. And pure Politicall Correctness. And that's a threat. I don't need my daughter to waste her life trying to compete in a game where males have natural advantage in their DNA. I'd rather have her spend her time analyzing people. Not objects.

That's all common sense dude. I'm threatened by you spreading enemy propaganda in my country. What about that? Go and teach that in Russia. Mess up their country. Not our own.
I have a friend who works for BigNerdRanch here in Atlanta now. It seems like a really great company, led by a smart, hard-working guy who has, as he notes, both earned and lucked into success. They have a great company culture where they value results over presenteeism and time clocked, and they build truly innovative solutions for a variety of different clients.

If I desired to work with Ruby or Apple technologies it would be a delightful place to work.

As for his recommendation, I would add the caveat that if you have an idea you want to get off the ground, treat it as a hobby or side-project and jump to full-time working on it if you can get either investment or profitability. There's no reason to wholesale discourage people from starting a small company, but be responsible!
If tweens listen to 10 hrs/day of Justin Bieber on repeat using free accounts, Bieber shouldn't get money from adults who listen a few hours a day to anything but him using premium accounts.

I think it's quite reasonable to assume that differences in listening and paying habits between users would NOT average out, and a per user split would be fairer.
more "spraycanny":

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/utcLx
I've never seen tethering function successfully on my phone. That would be my reason if I did it.
Show HN: SketchPort - Drawing inspiration
Don't Give Money to a Fancy College
So my vote doesn't count? What qualifies you make such a general claim?

I believe you that it bothers some people (for whatever reason - too much feminist indoctrination might play a part in some people). However, I don't think we can or should eliminate everything that bothers anybody from society, and reduce public life to the lowest common denominator.
Not necessarily.

First of all, what 'advantageous' means has changed a lot. Our priorities and needs nowadays are completely different then back in early history. Food is abundant, physical work is much less common, etc.

The benefits from having more awake time might not be enough to propagate such a change. Or the lost flexibility might have mattered much more back then.

I'm not claiming everyman is clearly and strictly better than mono or biphasic sleep. We have to find out, and the only way we can find out is by people actually trying it. But saying that monophasic sleep is the only way to sleep is silly.
Which only proves him right when he says

> I also dislike trying to find existing implementations of trees because, for some odd reason, trees tend to be named by abbreviations that only make sense in hindsight
2000 ideas were submitted, 290 pitches. 101 teams got funded today with 25000€ each.

The Trio is composed of french most known serial-entrepreneurs :

- Xaviel Niel, founder and CEO of Free.fr, second ISP in France.

- Marc Simoncini is the founder of Meetic, main french online dating service.

- Jacques-Antoine Granjon, founder of vente-privee.com, French ecommerce company that pioneered the model of online flash sales
Amazing thing. Much better than having to use the full Scala IDE just to sketch some concepts. There is also a Sublime package, but it just isn't on par.
You can do that to any post office.

The reason is that the software that FedEx, UPS, etc use to plan routes doesn't have something which maps P.O. box numbers to the street address of the post office that they are contained in. And from what I can tell the USPS doesn't publish that database, so even if FedEx, etc really really wanted to, they couldn't without spending several million (or more) to map them all manually.

It's unfortunate that it's not terribly convenient, but once you know the street address of the post office that your P.O box is located at, it's not a problem at all.