skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I understand that if this information is available solely to government agents, a rouge one can potentially do anything they want with it; but if it is available to all, does that not make me even more vulnerable because now anyone who doesn't like me can get a clear overview of my daily routes, or my address, etc?
>This coming from the guy who just told someone their problem is that they are running Linux Mint...

Nice Ad Hominem [1] you threw out there.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_hominem
Mono isn't nearly as big as Android. Wine certainly isn't much of a threat to Microsoft.
Metadata surveillance is the backbone of drone assassinations. Without it, they wouldn't be possible. They first find out when the person to be assassinated is located, and then send the drone.
Also do not use any kind of phone.

Do not appear on any camera/picture.

Do not purchase anything with any kind of card.

Do not drive a car (License plate recognition systems are getting scary.)

Etc...
NASA's Cassini Spacecraft Obtains Best Views of Saturn Hexagon
Best case: You get a lawyer for something like $250/hr and hopefully your case is clear enough that the lawyer can send a few simple "nastygrams" in a couple hours worth of billings. The company comes back with either full or partial payment and you move on.
I think it's awesome.

You have a personalized and prioritized view into the other stackexchanges you care about.

You can see reputation gains across all the stackexchange sites instead of the one that you are currently on.

Of course, I'll agree that the stackexchanges themselves should have input into how it's rendered on their own page, so as to prevent clashing.
GAuthify is great. Super easy to implement (libraries in almost all major languages), and supports auth mechanisms via (GA, SMS, Voice, and E-Mail).
How would this work? The screen in the video is clearly video-composited, is there a prototype or is this actually simply an idea? If so, is it really "coming soon"?
This confused me, so I did some quick googling, and found this: http://money.howstuffworks.com/mcdonalds2.htm
This database includes emails that were simply listed in these data breaches. Newer Adobe account emails were put in as entries in the database, but their associated password/hint data was not. There were quite a large number of these in the leaked db, including some of mine. I had to download the whole thing and search to realize that the only information revealed/stored was the email address.
The 120+ days thing with ebay is allegedly because they need to make sure any outstanding deals are closed and accounts settled.

Of course that is absolute bullshit, it took them 120+ days to close my account and I had not used it for over 4 years at that point. They actually emailed me telling me that they were closing the account due to inactivity. They gave me 3 or 4 months to log on before it would be killed, so I thought to myself "good, saves me the hassle of doing it myself". Fast forward 3-4 months and I get an email telling me my account was compromised. Weird... so I log on, confirm any payment info I had was long since expired, confirmed nothing had happened and that my password was intact... then I scrambled the security question and password just to be safe and told Ebay to delete the account. Cue "this will take 120+ days" bullshit... but whatever.

At nearly the end of that 120+ days I get emailed again telling me the account was compromised. I'm convinced this is a scam they run to trick you into logging into your account, thus resetting the the countdown.

Ebay and paypal are among my least trusted companies. I have a higher opinion of even Comcast or Halliburton.
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Faster for() loops in R
In the Chauvet Cave there are cave paintings that are 32,000 year old[1]. But what's even more interesting, is that some of these paintings are only 27,000 year old. Meaning, that these people knew about the place for almost 5000 years. Can you imagine that kind of continuity?

The documentary Cave of Forgotten Dreams[2] presents the cave in a breathtaking detail, definitely worth a watch.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chauvet_Cave#Dating

[2] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kULwsoCEd3g
We need an Internet that is secure by default. The Application layer security is a mess, and has a vast number of ways to attack and break that encryption level. We need to encrypt every packet on the web at the Transport layer or even the IP layer.
Anytime something bad happens I'm going to ask why the NSA didn't stop it. Paul Walkers death... why didn't the NSA stop it? PS4 DOA orders...why didn't the NSA stop it? Psychboo finding Prezi's source code... why didn't the NSA stop it?
Actually I'm in the UK.

His career is not lost. This is a minor setback. If you've ever worked in corporate law departments, you'll find lots of struck off legal professionals.

They still play golf on the same courses, still get paid the same. Their little empires just move.
the downside is that using random accounts on your domain requires a catch-all email rules on your server (unless you add each address by hand, but frankly that's too much of a hassle)
I've been on easynews on and off for quite some time. It's got some good web tools.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easynews
Idea: Write a service that you pass the unsalted hash to (only salted hashes in the DB please), and the email address and hash type. Stop people if their hash matches any previous ones.

Obviously this would stop people providing the same password for all services... But might creep some people out!

Would hopefully highlight how insecure/guessable non salted hashes are. Does anyone know best practice for doing things like this?
In lieu of a source, how's about you try to disprove it using data that shows that people prefer to buy Alienware (or other branded) gaming rigs over building their own PC's?
You're right; to be clear, I also strongly don't believe that APIs should be copyrightable.

But I'm nervous that there are at least a few ways to make the argument, to a layperson (like a judge or jury), and that Oracle might succeed eventually.
I think you meant "Do you have a paper contract?". In the US a verbal contract is perfectly legal, although in court you'll get into more "he said/she said" type situations, so it's always best to get things in writing. Having an attorney is always great advice.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_number_of_...

So actually 19%, yes.
except simplenote has related issues as well. I have had lots of issues with data loss and also tag loss as well even when I was careful to only have a single nvALT copy open. I would pay good money for an nvalt workflow with the evernote client.
James Roper wrote a comment describing why Play's iteratees are so complex in comparison: http://brikis98.blogspot.de/2013/11/play-scala-and-iteratees...
If we're very lucky the NSA will call the Post's bluff, and we'll get to see the source docs.
> The other bad thing about Appcode is that it's pretty bloated. I don't want/need HTML things in my Objective-C editor

You can disable the unwanted plugins (i.e. html/xml/js/source control) so the memory consumption is less. This feature is available to Intellij and to AppCode.

And thanks for your comment. It sounds to me like AppCode is worth it to you.
What a shepherd is is completely irrelevant to the problem.

...says the person privileged to know what a shepherd is. I agree that math education could be improved, but this study may not be the best basis for that improvement.
Location data.
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Microsoft's "community promise" only covers APIs derived from the ECMA standards. It doesn't protect other APIs that Mono implements, such as ASP.NET.
Medium 1.0
For those who don't know, James Roper is one of the Play contributors.
I don't know if this answers your question, but for me, I login to each site using my Google account, and the top bar shows me notifications across the network of sites. So, the authentication is on a per-site basis, but the account itself seems to be seen as a single account.
I don't think Harvard grads tend to autopilot the rest of their lives. That said, one of the purposes of going to Harvard is to avoid risk. Harvard students tend to come from the upper middle class (but not from "fuck you" money), and going to Harvard helps minimize the risk of falling out of that class. Hence the popularity of banking, consulting, federal government, etc, among Harvard undergraduates.
I think it could certainly pose a problem for existing projects; for new ones - probably not so much. Some API authors will encourage compatible implementations (as they do now), and some will compete on their own.
Rule 1 when announcing your imminent acqui-hiredness: tell us what your company did when making your announcement, otherwise it is just gloating.

Can anyone tell me what ptch actually did?
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We were just talking about this yesterday with some friends, and they put it nicely as "Language has no master"
The avr-libc at least comes with a malloc (rather, heap) implementation. It's mostly a trap for new embedded programmers who haven't yet internalized that you shouldn't touch dynamic memory allocation with a stick on these kind of processors.

(Embedded programming is really quite nice to teach clean C, you learn to appreciate what the cost of library functionality is, that you can't just start using floats, that on some architectures updating a 32 bit integer is a non-atomic operation spanning 5 or more clock cycles..)
You say this in jest, but they may have opened a can of worms here. Some defendant in a criminal case in Florida subpoenaed his NSA file in his defense. It would sure be interesting to see if this location data can be used as exculpatory evidence to acquit somebody, or if it would even be available. It would be very hard to stomach if that type of information is only available to convict, not exonerate.
I am surprised by how few people are aware of this: https://www.pwdhash.com/

Convenience provided via Chrome/Firefox extensions, portability provided by the website.
Not to mention that it wouldn't have been Oracle's fan base, but Sun's fan base. Android 1.0 was released in September 2008. Oracle bought Sun in April 2009.

Of course, Sun wouldn't have sued in the first place...
Over 3 billion devices run java
Is GMAT an American thing? I'm in Australia and have never heard of it.
This is flipping awesome.
This individual is not all individuals. Purely destructive trolling exists, even by intelligent and outwardly successful adults, a hundred times fold in Minecraft - and in some cases not even seeking attention applies because of anonymity. Which is no problem for sadism: seeing the reaction is enough.

Creating can mean a lot of things.. it basically means doing something constructive, hey, even daydreaming or just curiosity. For me there is either progress (doesn't have to be anything big, it doesn't even have to be your own, as long as you have the ability to be happy for others), relaxation (ditto) or frustration and the compensation for it... but any talk of "creators" is entirely yours. You don't seriously think I was trying to claim I was never a dick in my life? Hah, I wish.
There's an interesting point. It's taken for granted that the ruling language of the internet is and will be English; no surprise that native English-speakers approve. I wonder how many people in this thread would change their tune if the emerging lingua franca was Spanish or Mandarin.
The NSA doesn't run operations, so they didn't do either of these things either.

It's a big government.
As far as I can tell it's an instagram for film clips (never used it or heard of it before).
Usenet, or something very much like it, with a markup language (to allow for rich content), a paired messaging protocol (to allow for directly contacting individuals in chat / private message mode), and associated content distribution (images, video) could, I've felt for years, displace virtually all of existing social media.

The primary missing elements are filtering (as noted) and a distributed search capability.
Harvard, at least in the last 5-7 years, has been effectively free for the majority of American families.
What's rude is pointless pagination and sidebars.
That's not very "lucky," it seems very intentional.
DHS stalls no-fly list trial by putting witness on no-fly list
Ask HN: What are the major differences between DataDog vs New Relic?
Ahh, ok. BTW - what do you think about Julia? It's the most impressive dynamic language IMO.
Xamarin actually ported Android to C#:

http://blog.xamarin.com/android-in-c-sharp/

And has some cute benchmarks to show off for it.

But go one more level deep: Despite Microsoft's Community Promise, many places and legal teams will still view a potential threat if MS has a copyright on APIs used in Mono (not to mention patents).

It's a great win-win for Microsoft. They get to trumpet their PR and gain face with open source people, as well as deflect some criticism. But they know it'll still not hurt them as much as if they officially blessed Mono with a full, proper, transitive license.
I don't see ad hominem. He explicitly stated that fragmentation would not be an issue for gaming on Linux, and then in response to someone saying that Steam didn't work, he said "Well, that's because you're running Linux Mint". That sounds to me like a fragmentation problem. I'm not attacking him personally, I'm pointing out that he literally just used fragmentation as an excuse for why something didn't work while at the same time claiming it's not an issue.
Ok, that makes the most sense to me.
It still wouldn’t make the entire project illegal, only things outside of the standard.
In what way? The Constitution creates the federal government and restricts it's actions.
The first paragraph says:

"Our passion and our mission was to give you the best way to make and share beautiful movies made from the photos and videos on your phone."
Oh, after your comment I read their about page. It really sounds awesome and is something I would be very interested in.

I don't know why but I always assumed it was yet another "we teach non programmers some javascript"-programme. But it's really the opposite.
This is all I thought Usenet was used for at this point.
> You'll experience no material hardship.

You sound like a person who hasn't moved a long distance from their family.
Urr.. That should have been MAX, not MIN.
I don't think either of those things are true.

First, SQL is a standardized language. It's not copyrighted, and has an ISO standard. Anybody can implement a SQL database and not run into any copyright problems. They might run into problems if they implemented proprietary Oracle extensions in their new DB, but even that seems unlikely.

Next, even if APIs are copyrightable, it doesn't imply Oracle would have to release anything as open source. For one, I'm not sure any open source projects would sue over it. And even if they did, Oracle could simply stop distributing the software.
See other reply.. I wasn't talking about creating products, sigh. Quit putting a dollar sign on every thing on the planet!
Getting errors when I attempt to upload an image in Chrome (and IE).

Uncaught SecurityError: Access to 'localStorage' is denied for this document.
My laptop came with linux preinstalled. Same with my netbook. Neither required much work to use linux.

A standard Kubuntu (or Chakra) install on any Intel/AMD PC made before June will likely work without hiccups or missing hardware. Most distributions include an app to specifically detect/install proprietary drivers (Ubuntu uses Jockey). A browsing of Phoronix.com will provide you with benchmarks showing the NVIDIA/AMD/Intel drivers running neck-and-neck with Windows. But hey, let's not let the truth get in the way of your FUD.
put this on etsy
I'm not going to pretend to be the most intelligent person here or even that I'm more intelligent than all of those kids who came up with a number. But what I've always been willing to do is question people. Like most kids, I was given plenty of word problems in school. And there were several times where I called out the teacher or the textbook author for either leaving out information or relying on assumptions that I couldn't comfortably make. In fact, now that I think about it, later in school there were multiple choice answers that went something like "not enough information to answer".

I do not think a reasonable justification is "Well all the other problems I had that looked like this had an easy answer so this one should too". And the fact, that several students were unable to kludge an answer together supports that.

>With the information given I can do no better.
You can do a lot better! You can say that the question is unanswerable.
Call me crazy but I reckon Nokia will splash some cash on Jolla, pull a fast one with Nokia HERE (the big selling point for WP8 if you ask me) and port it to Jolla only then hit the market again lean and clean.

No one is buying Windows RT and there is talk about it being canned entirely. WinPhone isn't exactly popular apart from here in Europe and it's not exactly zooming out the door.

Microsoft could be left in the dust again.
How to code a markdown blogging system in Go
whynotjustusereallylongpasswordsthatarehardformachinestocrack?
Use a browser add-on for exporting/importing passwords, transfer the exports on an encrypted USB stick.
Within GSM any interconnected network can query at least the country of any other network's customers' handsets. It's needed for routing roaming calls, but the data is generally quite easy accessible.

There are many commercial services offering lookups (google "HLR lookup")
So no details on how to detect if this virus is on your computer?
I haven't looked into it extensively, but my understanding of the account system matches yours. However, you can emulate the week/month tabs using the search bar, for instance:

http://electronics.stackexchange.com/search?tab=votes&q=is%3...
To put it another way, to have the knowledge required to change the default, the non-technical user would have to become a semi-technical user.
How do you pronounce the name of this company? Patch? Pitch?
But you need a license to put JPEG files on your website. But I guess you already knew that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG#Patent_issues
To me the real question is not about shipping products vs good programmers. There is is a much more important question when it comes to writing ugly or pretty code:

Does it work and will you maintain it?

In my experience I often had to often fix dozens of critical bugs of "getting things done" programmers.

I often hear "I will fix this later", "I will refactor it later", "but it works", "we can write tests later", "I will comment/document later", "I will clean up later" from these people giving it to maintenance programmers who rewrite the stuff, cause it is too ugly to deal with.

That's a big problem. People write code and other people have to fix this "but it works" code. Great, when you have a node.js application only running cause there is try catches around things hiding all the errors, killing the logging back end.

If you are the only one to read the code than it's fine to do whatever you want with it, as long as it works. But usually code that really works is well-written, well-commented, tested, etc.
Mitigation would be fairly simple: instead of a web form, put up an email address that you can send a message to and get back the result.
that would be amazing! we're hi@gifpop.io
Google is (modulo the corporation/person thingy) granted rights under the Constitution.

The Constitution only limits Google to the extent that it's the basis for the system of laws that do the limiting.
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He's saying it's rude (not despicable or forbidden) to link to this page when putting it in front of a big crowd (not e.g. when viewing it on your own). Your comment is therefore entirely beside the point.
Well until the recent 4.x / 3.x screwup [1] that 1Password did it has been quite useful (and like you, my 16 character password at Adobe, even if guessed, would not be useful anywhere else)

[1] My 3.x was upgraded to 4.x on my Macbook (unbidden) and the only way to restore compatability with my 3.x on iOS is to pony up another $20. Can't go back to 3.x on the Macbook, not particularly happy about the upgrade fee on iOS.
We all know that's not swalsh's point. WaPo is doing us a public service by reporting on all of this, we should encourage such reporting by giving them the ad-revenue from out views.
This is very cool. Is there any particular reason why non-GIF version is limited to just 2 pictures? It would be awesome to be able to manually upload a number of images, especially with phones supporting burst mode.
For those who aren't aware https://www.pwdhash.com/
This is a rather shortsighted view. Integrated graphics are rapidly catching up to desktop cards. The built-in Iris is enough to play games like TF2 with high settings, while the 15" Macbook Pro's 750M is half as powerful as my desktop AMD 6850! Furthermore, desktop PCs are getting ousted by laptops, to the point where I barely know anyone with a desktop anymore. In my view, PC gaming will have to adapt to this new environment, or it will become an increasingly niche market. (The enthusiasts who suggest spending $500 every year just to catch up with all the poorly optimized ports aren't helping.)

And yes, I very much can have an immersive experience on my 15" display, as can many other people. According to the Valve hardware survey, only 32.61% are running at 1080p; most of the rest have to do with less. Giant monitors aren't as ubiquitous as you might think.
... wow. I sincerely didn't expect that number to be accurate at all. Okay then!
The overall GPA can still be used to rank, even at Harvard. The latin honors are fixed at top 5, 20, and 50 percent of graduating classes.

I don't really care about grade inflation overall because I don't think more competition for grades would improve Harvard as an educational institution.

I do think grading norms/curves may be important to standardize the distribution across majors. It's absolutely the case that some students avoid difficult courses. This is very unfortunate.
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