skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Having lived the first two decades of my life, and naturally had to circumvent network blocking, in Iran, I can tell you that's not how they work. Most of the blocking they do is targeted at the masses, and most people actually do circumvent it. People who circumvent their internet blocking facilities do not generally face persecution, as it's basically 100% of the internet users.
The World's Largest Lego Set? Google Maps.
"Smaller than life?" What does that mean? For worse, those attacks have had lasting implications everywhere. Sounds like they realised they'd be slammed really hard if they stuck to accuracy so they backed down with some handy-wavy nonsense about being brave.

If their bravery had caused a proper response, similar to how Norway responded to that mass-shooting, then it'd be worthwhile to note. But despite their bravery, that "garden-variety terrorist" has succeeded in scaring people into allowing their government to expand powers.

And the dismissal that it doesn't matter because he didn't think it'd work out - that's just idiotic. Do we disqualify scientists from the other Nobel prizes because "they really didn't think this experiment would discover anything"?
Not disagreeing with your point, but I chuckled a bit at your examples. I wouldn't qualify either Facebook or Windows as being "first to market".

Though I think this mainly just points out the squishiness of the term.
To be clear, it is the same logic that justifies patent trolling.

Imagine if some startup "hedged" by covertly transfering funds from customers' bank accounts when they cancel their subscriptions:

Great product => paying customers

Bad product => steal money from customers
UPDATE: GoDaddy's CEO let me know that they contacted the affected party, the internal security team, and Twitter security. I'd hope they are also looking at policy/training changes for customer support, but that wasn't mentioned.
So someone in the namecoin project registered bit.pe?

And they just have a server running that passes the requests through?
Indeed. "working for exposure" is basically a swear word in some photography circles.
I tried it on my account, you get the confirmation that it has changed, but when I logged in it hadn't actually changed the setting. Perhaps one of the URL params is a token, CRC or hash of the email which ensures you need the correct values for the email you are changing.
Exactly like Caprica http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caprica_(TV_series)
The Nintendo SDKs could/should be given away for free. Their only purpose is to produce software that enriches Nintendo's platform.

This is very much the logic behind Microsoft giving away the DirectX SDK, and loaning out XBox development kits at no cost.
Sure there's plenty of blame to spread around, but I still would have felt terrible if someone had been hurt or killed.

What system would you put in place to prevent this? The issue was that I connected to prod when I thought I was connecting to a test DB. We each had different credentials for prod vs everything else, but the SQL client remembered my username and password. Anyone with prod access could have made the same mistake.
I was surprised that the victim didn't get an attorney involved. This is an example of a situation in which a court could very swiftly (same day, usually) issue an injunction to preserve the status quo while the merits get sorted out in court. Most domain providers I've dealt with will freeze a disputed account pending legal resolution of ownership, which can be decided via the court system or a WIPO arbitration.
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True. I believe the original poster, no question about that. I hope twitter reverses it, but I can see why they haven't yet.
Your articles are fine, but you're missing one key component...pictures. If each headline had a pic I bet you'd be doing much better
FWIW, I'd also really like to see links to the articles. :)
AMD's first ARM processor is 8-core and 64-bit
This one is really embarrassing. I started a new job for a small company as the only developer with the aim of creating a new site for them. So they gave me full access to their very small technology stack that included one Mssql server.

So one of the first things I wanted to do was setup a development db for which I exported the structure from their prod db. I then proceeded to change the name of the create database statement at the top to the new dev db I wanted and ran the script.

Unfortunately the prod db name was still pretended to every drop and create table command in the script so I had just replaced their whole prod db with an empty one.

Owning up to that was one of the most embarrassing moments of my career. It was such a rookie mistake I just wanted to die. Luckily they had daily backups so I only cost their 4 man business about half a day of work but... it was enough for me to be a much more careful developer from that day forward!
1.36% of revenue could be 100% of profit, in some cases.
Has anyone had any experience trying to use this for programming? My feeling when I looked into it a while back was that it's heavily optimized for typing English, and that it might not be suitable for programming without some heavy modifications.

Even if it's not good for coding then I might be tempted to learn it anyway, but now speech-to-text is starting to get good enough that I'm questioning whether it'd be worth the time investment (at least for me personally).
Yes, when I was about 8.
I'd really like to be able to filter furniture and home items by dimension, so I can find things that fit my specific space.
Great Job on the launch Ryan!
> They are getting free publicity

For that, they would have to be properly credited in the first place...
Not having scrollbars on the text is... an interesting idea. Also, I see I jumped through several "pages" in my history. Where did I go, exactly?
Couldn't read your comment without a shudder and my brain going straight to the Therac 25 incident(s).
I'm being pretty vague since I'm not really an expert, but yes the old banks were put into receivership but not bankruptcy.
However, previous laws from 2002 already established that financial institutes would not go through normal bankruptcy ( http://www.althingi.is/altext/stjt/2002.161.html ), but I'm not sure how that would have worked out.
I have a user account but when/how can I post something?
It's still pretty bad. A lot of red tape, a steep initial cost and then ongoing taxes left and right which make America's social security look like a waiter tip. The amount of coverage that business owners need to provide for their employees is through the roof, and it hurts both employers and employees.

There's also the ridiculous mandatory three month notice if you want to leave your job which makes hopping from one job to the next close to impossible.

The unions have completely paralyzed the working market in France and they very often act in direct opposition of the workers they are supposed to defend, such as how they imposed the 35 hour work week (which nobody wanted, especially not workers, who'd rather work more and earn more money) and the quasi impossibility to open shop on Sundays despite protestations of everyone.

I don't know why this article thinks France might be the next start up nation because unsurprisingly, the author offers very little evidence to back up this claim.
"It may require a $10k deposit on a $40 chair, and require me to devote 6 hours of my labor"

You might enjoy fine woodworking as a hobby.

I don't have the woodturning and wood carving gear to be able to spend 6 hours on a chair.

A large amount of time is spent in tool setup / teardown so I have built 3 bookcases in only about 10% more time than 1. This has some interesting implications for your dining room chair example, where it might be 6 hours to make one chair, but only 8 hours to make six chairs. Bolt together particle board kits usually scale much more linearly.

Extensive product evaluation leads me to estimate if you buy raw stock and cut it yourself you can upgrade about 1 to 2 levels of luxury. So buy a kit of particle board, or buy boards of solid clear oak, for the same cost. This is an issue for your proposed kit idea.
Yep, I typically do SUPDATE just for fun that way. And only do that AFTER building the where clause with a SELECT * FROM foo WHERE ... so that I always start with the clause when making the update. Might be paranoid but it always seems to work out for me that way.
Great idea, I've been thinking about a similar system. Wish you the best of luck Marius, all you'd need now is a human scale robot that can project a composite image of the deceased, and voila! You've become a digital necromancer.
It's much cheaper to make a chip that both you and the other 99% of the people (that need 2 ethernet ports/CPU) need than making a specific chip for each market.
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How to properly use Creative Commons images on your projects
Virginia schoolboy hopes to use big data to tackle bullying
Alice (telco) at one point required the password I used on the website to identify me on the phone. Quite sensible as authentication/identification (though it requires the password to be stored in plain text somewhere, something I don’t really care about) in theory and reading out aPua6EG8H0nB6UIxOwsQQeVYUF71NRQ9AkBqg4rujU8vAcLMnG is not all that hard.
Blocking educational content from countries which we would like to improve relations with seems like a terribly dumb idea. There are not even sales involved here - WTF.
In the documentation it says it supports Android 4.x+, but will it still run on the default WebView instead of Chrome on versions below KitKat 4.4? Cos then you would have to adapt your CHROME APPS for android 4.1 or 4.0, and if you look at caniuse.com HTML5 and CSS3 support for default android browsers its a huge step back. Or am I wrong?
this is creepy in every way - like the time a friend of mine suggested he could get rich doing funeral videos the way people pay for wedding videos.

I bet BING buys this to challenge google in AI!
People get duped by strangers all the time. It's much easier to find out someone's childhood pet name than to, say, break TLS. A lot faster and usually less conspicuous too.

Hell, getting the last four digits of someone's credit card number might be as simple as pulling a receipt they threw away out of the trash.
So a more focused version of ListServe. Main problem with ListServe is there is a very high signal to noise ratio, on the wrong side (noisey)!. Hope your list gets better content and good luck.
Please impart more wisdom in your lovely obnoxious raging nerd idealist way. It's very unusual to find in tech circles!
I think being good at something does not mean that's your passion. I think it's more about finding a passion, and working towards to be good at it would make more sense. That's the case for me.

I was exposed to web programming early age, built my first Geocities website that served pirated movies, at the age of 11. After finishing the website, I noticed a lot of people actually came to my site, wrote thank you notes in my shitty, Geocities guestbook.

Being 11 years old, seeing those thank you notes really encouraged me to move forward, and bought my first PHP book.

Ever since, I started building websites and products to reach out to the users. There were lots of failures, actually, most were failures, but that didn't stop me from moving forward.

Passion is something that you find value in doing. For me, it's not about the money, but it's about seeing those thank you notes for providing value to my customers.
Gmail Bug Mislabeled Some Messages as Spam or Trash
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Each product takes up one line and is maybe a dozen words of description. It's a non-problem.
Is the same distinction Gibson draws with the Dixie Flatline construct in Neuromancer. Constructs aren't AI and they aren't the person neither.
Is shooting people your first go-to for defense? I prefer arguments and evidence presented to institutions who have both been given permission to shoot people and are willing to do it on my behalf pending their judgements of my arguments and evidence.

Of course, if the institution's judgement is that people can take things that I'm not using at that exact moment, and it is not interested in intervening, then it's not my 'right' to leave my house alone for the day.

Turns out my rights are entirely dependent on the amount of guns I can bring to bear vs. the amount of guns somebody challenging my claim can bring to bear.
Iceland wants to join the EU. They will have to pay their debt first. You cannot fool 'foreign' countries and join them at the same time.
Paywall? Pass.
And make sure your phone is muted. The first conference call is easy. When you have one every day for a year and it becomes so common place... sometimes you forget. I've heard some people on my team coughing obnoxiously, yell at people driving, doing the dishes, etc. Mute your shit, and tell your team mates immediately when they aren't muted.
Taking a peek behind the curtain.

Also, shameless plug for our new portuguese site: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2014/01/ola-mundo-announcing-s...
> Google should fire whoever inside their organization enabled you to run this scam for longer than a month.

From the post, it sounds like Google is itself running this "scam":

> FTA: I don’t know whether we got kicked out because 24 hours before banning our apps Google launched an almost identical feature in Android 4.4 or if it’s something else.

[Can anyone confirm?]
It's against Twitter's terms to sell an account or username. Does Twitter commonly look the other way on this? Are there public examples of Twitter accounts being sold for a lot of money?
Yes, but it doesn't pay well enough until I can get rid of my student loans. I worked as a whitewater rafting guide for summers while in college and have never felt so alive and happy in my life. Unfortunately, I had 60k in student loans (and my wife had more). My current plan is to work a job which pays way more than I deserve in tech while keeping my living expenses as low as possible.

About 4 years from now my wife an I are leaving the corporate world forever with all of the loans paid off and enough in the 401k's to never worry about retirement again. We will work at what we love (outdoor guiding and photography) and will be significantly happier for it.

Engineering and tech are great for some people. I'm glad I looked elsewhere to find a passion though.
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About 4 years ago when I was leaving Iran, you could see physical establishments (i.e. shops) publicly advertising VPN access. While I'm not sure if you can sell VPN access as obviously as before, I'm quite sure that most internet user do use some sort of circumvention/proxying technology.

I, personally, was always very skeptical about the VPN services sold in the wild. Who knew what machine you were routing your data through was not controlled by the government themselves?
How would you rank the danger of all our energy sources?

edit:// The parent comment was saying that as someone who doesn't know much about it, geothermal sounded potentially more dangerous than nuclear. I was hoping to make the point that nuclear is pretty safe, even when you include recent disasters.
Exactly.

گر حکم شود که مست گیرند

در شهر هر آنکه هست گیرند

Sorry, I couldn't help citing this particular piece of Persian poetry. Trust me, it's relevant.
If you're running an application that runs on more than one server it's definitely worth checking out AWS OpsWorks. It's a huge time saver and extremely useful in integrating and managing setup, configuration, and deployment across a server/db/cache etc without any loss of control or customization.
I quite like badger.com
Objective-C had the advantage that it worked while Dylan struggled to get an implementation that was acceptable. It would have been interesting if it had made it onto the Newton or got a compiler that could do PowerPC acceptably.
Not that I disagree with your sentiment, but how is that "inherently encrypted and secure"?
Someone did that to a big subreddit I created. There are tons of copy-cats who are even using my trademarked name and Twitter won't do jack about it.
I'm guessing OBT is Ohio Bell Telecom, don't know about 125.
What kind of message would it send to the world if the US gouvernement was still trying to put in jail a Nobel peace prize ?
I used to work at Wolfram Research on Wolfram Alpha's backend, and one of the most challenging technical problems we faced was free-form input. Although W|A has by no means perfected this, this is hardly an alternative - queries like "factor the number 100" fail because there is only the beginnings of a free-form transformer. Obviously, the usefulness of being able to answer "factor one hundred" is questionable, but W|A solved it out of Stephen Wolfram's aspiration to be able to "compute everything". Right now, this is just a programming language you can run on the web.

The other thing is that W|A has trillions of data points and what I am only allowed to describe as the beginnings of a semantic network for inferring relations between them. It was a vastly overcomplicated system that was difficult to work with, so I am quite confident that some day there will be an open-source alternative that anyone can contribute to.

The other thing to take into account is how this affects the future. Wolfram Research thought they were going to "disrupt the calculator" (I heard this ridiculous statement once at a meeting). In reality, Wolfram Alpha queries are more often for the sake of fun than for the sake of discovery (I know this because there was a big TV in the break room that would keep displaying things that people searched on Wolfram Alpha). Is it really that useful to be able to have a computer give you an answer to "I have two apples, Jill has three apples. How many apples do we both have?"

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+two+apples%2C+Ji...

Or is it more useful to make something that can take in symptoms of your current ailment and tell you which disease you are most likely to have? Wolfram Alpha does this as well.

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=I+have+a+fever+and+a+ru...

Although the results are difficult to interpret. In my time at Wolfram Research, I was certainly convinced by the idea of knowledge engines and their ultimate emergence, but I think the way this will be accomplished is in more in a Google-esque fashion where their knowledge engine results are displayed alongside a real search algorithm. Best of luck to the people on this project, I hope you make the first step into creating an open source knowledge engine.
If the value of their paychecks was cut in half, then didn't that have a impact on their "real wealth and human well being"?
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They don't have to be "relying" on it to use it.

If you treat security like a mathematical problem [1] with no grey areas, you are going to reject almost every security measure and say "that would only give users a false sense of security."

Just about all security measures can be worked around by a determined attacker. That doesn't mean you stop using them.

The linked page says to hide your whois information. This is surely security through obscurity. Yet it can vastly reduce the number of reset emails you get.

[1] You should treat crypto like a mathematical problem.
A recent tweet from Kyle Cameron's twitter feed:

"If The Wolf Of Wall Street doesn't inspire you to become successful, nothing will." [1]

Makes me a little sad.

[1] https://twitter.com/GirlsGoneKyle/status/427666832636403712
I've been looking for this link for weeks: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/bibuxton/buxto...! Thank you!
No doubt it will be used for marketing spam. I can just imagine my digital ghost telling anecdotes about how in my day and age Intel was a respectable company and that most of my computers used their CPUs, so my ancestor should consider them for their computing needs... <sigh> reminds me of a Futurama episode.

I'd still like to see why they think they can do better than what's already out there. Especially if they're making a play for academic funding, they need to publish something.

Note: this comment is without the benefit of searching for each of the team members prior works; if the company is not pointing to any particular technique or publication I'm not enthused enough to dig deeper.
When Obama got it before he had a chance to do something to deserve it.
Images were preferred, but the names themselves would suffice for much the same reasons.
I agree to a large extent. I've been asked for 'a non-intrusive penetration test'... Uh, what? Then you hammer it out and they're looking for what we call a 'vulnerability assessment'. The pen-test without the pen- phase.

There's a large number of people running those tools and doing exactly as you describe. I call them, 'the competition'. They bid low and ship a canned report with little to no analysis or follow-up. I highly recommend everyone scan themselves regularly. None of the tools you mentioned are too scary. I do tend to find the severity ratings to be out of whack with the real world impacts a lot of times, so if you see a bunch of red in the report don't panic. Read the text and figure out what it means to your network. The Metasploit Framework has a bit of a learning curve, but nothing too daunting and really it's not necessary for a maintenance scan. You can always invest in a licensed version if the Framework scares you.

Those tools don't provide meaningful coverage of web applications but they would give you a decent idea of the security posture of your network perimeter.

Many situations require the disinterested third party to perform the assessment or audit though. Sometimes customers/partners want to see your last report if you're dealing B2B and then there are the compliance requirements (PCI, health or personal information).

The one thing about that report that really bothered me was the remediation price tags. I know a lot of companies do similar things but we never offer remediation services since it would put us in a conflict of interest. I turn down security product installs regularly on our assessment and penetration testing customers because I don't want us in a position where we're auditing our own work. It's a point of contention sometimes but its an audit independence requirement and I won't budge on the issue.
at about 10^200 decimal places in we found instructions for building an ansible.
Most definately, although the currency has been very unstable from the beginning.

In fact, the ISK/USD has gone from 7.25kr/USD (1981) up to 97.5kr/USD (2001), down to 62.7kr/USD (2005) and is now at 115kr/USD. So yes, half it's value relative to 2005.

However, this probably paint an overly pretty picture, because the currency is essentially fixed by the central bank and protected with restrictive regulations.
For example, if I want to buy USD, I have to show the bank an airline ticket and there's a limit to how much I can buy (< 6.000$ )
I've run into security questions where there were character limits on the answer. "Between 3 and 20 characters, no numbers." The worst of all possible worlds!
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I don't see why independent invention wouldn't lead to a legal assumption of obviousness. Independent invention seems like incredibly clear cut proof of obviousness to me, anyway.
While support varies, it's pretty common for Linux programs to be written with an eye to portability. It's really up to the distro to package things up nicely. Most distros that decide to support ARM have many packages in the repos, just as easy to install as x86. You can search here for packages in the ARM port of Archlinux http://archlinuxarm.org/packages Here's a list of ARM packages from Debian http://packages.debian.org/squeeze/armel/
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