skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but U.S. anti-discrimination law rarely speaks directly about race, and instead uses the broader phrasing "race, color, or national origin", which covers pretty much anything race- or ethnicity-based.
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A good friend told me once: " the moment you enter info in an electronic device, you can assume it's public ".

It was in response to me getting a pic of him wearing red thongs (dont' ask), but the point stands in regards to Google, any email account, your PC, your phone, and everything else.
I am curious what the upside of doing so would be.
A browser plugin to turn hyperbolic viral headlines into what they really mean
I looked for a tool like this but couldn't find any, so I created one! I wanted to know how Apple Mail's HTML looked like. Let me know if you find any use for it!
You appear to be extrapolationg your experience of an OS on a device with a bunch of accounts to her experience of a differently installed OS on a different device with different accounts. Then you appear to be saying that she is wrong and that it's her fault.

Part of the problem is the lousy quality of journalism. From reading TFA we can't know what actually happened. But if you know what happens on simillarly installed OSs and accounts it'd be great if you could present a clear wallthrough.

At the moment you seem to be making irrelevant points.
FSB is actually the domestic successor to the KGB. The KGB's foreign intelligence responsibilities were passed to an agency known as SVR [0].

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Service_(R...
I don't think HTC is doing very well so it would be just Samsung and they are competing for the premium segment so the cheap Chinese phone are not really a concern for them, but Nokia needed something else to differentiate, hence their choice for WP.
Requires audio ;-)
"This takes us to the Microsoft Developer Division or "DevDiv" (approximately 1993 - 2002) and later know as "DevTools" (2002 - 2013)."

I'm a bit confused by this, as it's certainly been called DevDiv between 2008 and the present.

"We had to rewrite VB to use the VS shell and this fundamentally changed the VB product and it user base forever. "

There's no reason the VB6 language couldn't have been changed to use the new shell or even the CLR. The real culprit was the decision not to attempt backwards compatibility between the new VB ("VB.NET") and the old one.

Whether commercial or open source, only time and market share can tell us which platforms are going to be winners.
Strike Commander was technically a very impressive achievement for its time and I'm very sad that flight and race sims don't get the recognition they deserve for pioneering technology as opposed to Doom/Quake etc.

Anyway, those kind of Commander-like flight games have limited replay value, because of the lack of a dynamic campaign and a hollywood hero story doesn't sit well with most flight sim fans, so we ended up with dumbed down arcade shooters like Ace Combat.

There was a Strike Commander like flightsim back in 1999 called "F-16 aggressor", which had a very impressive flight model and cockpit, but sadly wasted on an even more forgettable hollywood hero story thing.
Surely the deal could have been announced earlier in the week, if they wanted it to. Some other reason caused them to wait to announce it.
Didn't really expect this to trend... glad you enjoyed it :)
You know, it could be both, right?

He could be acting in the best interests of the FSB, with friends slightly pushed by the FSB, and still think he's working alone.

Not all spies know they are spies. Not all assets are 100% willing assets who signed on a piece of paper "I am aiding and abetting the Russians." Some of the best assets that have ever existed in intelligence thought they were working on their own and were working in their own interests.. those interests just happened to line up with the controller's interests too.
kulkarnic just arrived from 1975 when a billion was a lot of money :)
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I'm gradually stopping using all of google's services. One by one they either turn out to have "features" like this, or they "improve" them into being horrible. There isn't much left I use any more. And I used to like google a lot... Times change
Is it a likely scenario that Russia intelligence could recruit, contact and provide help to an NSA employee without NSA knowing about it? Without NSA having any trace what so ever (in contrast to Manning‎ and his chat conversations)?

This seems like an ahistorical assumption. Are you aware that a senior FBI agent in the Soviet/Russian counterintelligence group was a spy for the USSR/Russia for nearly 16 years before being caught? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hanssen
Of course I know all these projects.
But it would be nice to play with the old wireframe graphics and try if docking becomes easier :)

Just for fun of course. But to implement it in oolite would be indeed easier.
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does it really count as unexpected at this point?
With the exception of T-Mobile, I do not believe any other major US carrier offers cheaper non-subsidized plans. Given this, it does make sense to use the subsidy, as one is paying for it one way or the other. I really hope this situation changes.
Yes! I'm pretty surprised Criterion hasn't released one.

By the way, just a few days ago Kino released a Blu-Ray edition of Nostalghia.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00GA9F2PI
I'm not sure IBM wants to be a pure services company, in fact, software sales is a high margin business that makes IBM a huge chunk of change.
In which business do they have no or limited real competition? In every product line there are 3+ other companies providing similar products.
Upvoted because I am a hopeless Portal fanatic.
(shameless plug)

Don't you want a nice Nyan Cat in that modeline in the sky? ;).

http://nyan-mode.buildsomethingamazing.com/
Yes, but the biggest cloud providers build their own hardware. Google, Facebook, Backblaze, and more to come I'm sure. Intel and Micron and Foxconn will remain happy, but vendors of turnkey servers perhaps less so.
/Leaving aside XML techno babble/:

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We knew we wanted to pay out a lot because of the severity of the issue, so we decided to average the payout recommendations across a group of our program administrators. As always, we design our payouts to reward the hard work of researchers who are already inclined to do the right thing and report bugs to the affected vendors.
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So, instead of awarding bounty to the researcher who found and intelligently handled the disclosure of the issue, Facebook "decided to average the payout" in order to keep part of the bounty to themselves, rewarding themselves for "hard work" and glorifying themselves for "awarding our biggest bug bounty payout ever" ?
Your basic statement is false: "GCC's parts cannot be included in other projects". That's simply a lie.

> You didn't answer the question

Because it's completely irrelevant.
I am not saying that things are peachy. I agree with all of your examples. What I am saying is that less than a hundred years ago women could not vote and the official stance on that was that it's constitutional. Less than fifty years ago it was perfectly legal to pay women less than men just because they are women. It is now illegal.

The point is that things like what the NSA is doing are clearly illegal in my mind and I think 20 years from now our kids will look back and say "how did you let this happen?" but it will be made illegal. Will the spy agencies and over-reaching corporate entities continue trying to find a way to circumvent the new laws and the interpretations of the old laws? Absolutely. However, we will have made progress.

I guess this brings up the grand question: will we ever reach enlightenment enough to stop spying and oppressing our own citizens, denizens, visitors, and allies? I think it'll take a few centuries but yes. Eventually I think we will get there through lots of lessons learned the hard way.
As many others have mentioned, the "right" thing to do is warn them. Also, if you don't warn them, you are starting to get into "negative option" territory, and you need to be careful about how you disclose this to your customers: http://www.responsemagazine.com/direct-response-marketing/le...
But.. but.. but.... It's in the JavaScript. :(
Revealing the magic: How to properly convert HTML string to a DOM element
I don't know a person alive that doesn't like having options. I would appreciate just being asked.
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If you reflect for a moment, obviously a minority of HN will be made alienated and uncomfortable by this sexualized humor. Do you really want this?
Substitute with FSF and GCC and same paranoid arguments apply. I don't have any reason to trust the FSF any more that those other organisations. At least when it comes to corporations they are just working to make money and I can reason about and predict their actions based on that. With political organisations like the FSF they are often quite prepared to shoot themselves in the foot or destroy the entire project just for ideological reasons. An "if it can't be just how we want it then nobody can have it" attitude.

Back in reality none of these projects are going anywhere. GNU zealots have spend the last 2 decades warning that BSD style licences would result in people making closed forks of things leading to the original open version dying. But it has hardly ever happened.

Instead of propagating paranoid conspiracies you should just accept the truth which is that BSD style licences have proven to be the most effective at getting people to contribute to open software.
There is also a great community FAQ http://elite-dangerous.wikia.com/wiki/Elite:_Dangerous_FAQ
Exactly. Pivoting from the server immediately to the clients by serving malware against the visiting browsers/plugins. Even if large site detects what you are doing quickly and shuts you down, you've leveraged that into controlling thousands of desktop machines
I am a bit confused by this, the author actually edited the numbers ( "Nokia has confirmed it sold 8.2 million Lumias in Q4" ) which is the double of 2012.

How is that "disappointing"?
https://github.com/Fuco1/litable
My initial understanding is that the XXE flaw allows the attacker to read local files, or make network requests via the remote host (essentially, proxying them), but still only delivered to his client, rather than actually modifying or creating files on the remote host itself.

remote read access is much more limited than remote write access, but even write access will be limited by file permissions, and doesn't necessarily translate to code execution.

injecting some code into some of the web-app source that gets triggered by an additional request would probably be hte easiest way, but you might also look for system binaries that get called by cron or similar.

Sounds like he didn't use any of these, and it was actually some sort of local web-accessible (but externally firewalled) admin interface that a suitable request could exploit, and I'm very curious how that part of it would work (especially how you'd know/find out about it as an outsider)
Its nice to see, that once you talk from the point of a Software security person, you see the fiction from what it is. Fiction.

I do not think you would answer different, but your recent comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7094408 showed an identical speculative narration as in this article. Speculations that portraits a good-versus-evil narrative.

Reality is indeed messy and incomprehensible, which is why it do not need all that additional speculations. Talking about Russian intelligence, China agents stealing documents, and Snowden providing wholesale access to intelligence services is simply fiction until more details is reveled. Nothing more.
You're being hyperbolic. Neither is mandatory. Your linked article seems to be implying that the information one willingly makes public on social media is the problem for some credit decisions, and the latter part of that article seems to be concerned with businesses with specific online components. Interesting ideas, but a distraction from the topic at hand.
I worry about an overly defeatist point of view here. Just because the security situation is so bad right now does not mean that it is unavoidably so.
"I never check my email for these."

I've never been a big fan of email for things like this because they can get pretty noisy. To solve the having to track a lot of pull requests problem with minimal noise, I decided to go with a more self serve approach. The idea is to let users create logical groups for tracking pull requests. Below is an example of a logical group that lets you track individual pull requests from 6 different repos.

http://ny.testdrive.gitsense.com/index?#pid=24&cid=29&trail=

If you click on the links in the black bar, you can see how you can control the amount of noise. Everything is programmable so you can have it display whatever you want.
The 5th has now also been created:

https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=ritikk5
I though the Grantland writer outed her to an investor. Sure, Google aided in that, but that was the whole issue.
It plays spaaaccccce.com/mp3/space.mp3 . Didn't work in my browser either, I had to go digging source.
Many American conservatives, arguably the bulk of the mainstream conservative party, have elevated globalism above national independence by embracing libertarian ideas about the role of national governments with respect to international commerce. At one time, conservatives favored reducing unnecessary burdens on international trade, such as tariffs, as a means to the end of greater national prosperity. Today, they quite often deny the very legitimacy of the national government exercising its sovereign powers to manage or limit trade to maximize national prosperity. This represents a fundamental change in thinking with tremendous implications in light of the continued growth of international corporations.
God, yes. I even asked for a signals.py so they could be declared there, but this is even better. I'm very excited about this.
A bit like Netflix?

Also he didn't actually say he would be storing the details, in fact he said he was using Stripe to manage the payment side of things.
Indeed. Perhaps a reasonable compromise would be to have the permission apply to only the tab for which the user allowed it, and only as long as the tab remains pointed to that same domain. No inheriting permissions across child windows and no retaining the permission for that domain when future tabs are opened. Seems like it would reasonably fit the expectations of the user and I can't think it would put up unreasonable road blocks for developers.
Android's 'weak gravity' means users drift away to iPhone, study finds
13-year-old filmmaker's documentary on NSA spying
I certainly agree that Snapchat is over-valued.

The problem with being in a mature market is you can't convince investors that huge growth is just around the corner, so they start looking at things like 'profit' and 'dividends'.

And when you have HP and Compaq and Dell producing basically the same thing, you can't charge much of a premium as your customers can easily switch suppliers.
If you try my repo, have a look at the custom keys that I defined, that helps things a lot.

Also, the one great feature about Emacs is MX (which I bound to CMD-.
This opens the minibuffer where you can execute arbitrary EmacsLisp functions. Everything you do in Emacs (even arrow up, left or right) is bound to an Emacs function. So if you start out, and you want to do something, but you don't know the shortcut, just do CMD-. and start typing. The naming is really good. Say you want to deactivate line truncation. You go into MX and type "truncate" and among the results will be "toggle-truncate-lines" you go there, hit enter, and you're done. This is a bit more difficult in stock Emacs, as it has no wildcard search for MX but I'm using the Helm plugin, which offers this feature and makes it really really easy to find functions. I hardly ever use all these Emacs shortcuts like C-c C-e ... I just hit MX and type what I need to do.

Sadly, startup is still really slow for my configuration, which is why I have a Vim config with similar keys for quick Terminal usage. I start Emacs in the morning and keep it open all day. When I need to quickly fix something in the Terminal, I use Vim.
Is not a surprise, the Osnews editor is well know for being anti-Nokia since their aliance with MS, so spect more from him.
Why do you want line numbers next to your code at all? Aren't they just visual clutter? The current line number is shown in the mode-line anyway.
Samsung takes 95% of Android profits. HTC, Motorla, LG, Sony etc get to fight for the rest. I wonder how long Google is willing to be Samsung's R&D department for free.
> All phones cost that much.

Let me start by saying I agree with your point about pointing out the cost of taking the "subsidy". Personally that's part of my reason for the phones I've had the last couple of years. I figured that the subsidy in fact is costing me enough that if I opt for slightly cheaper models (see below), I can, if I want to, easily justify upgrading once a year instead of once every 18-24 months as is typical for the contracts here, and given my propensity for having phones slip out of my hands and end up shattering on the floor on the other side of the room, I figured that'd be a good idea...

But going to $600 for a smartphone is not at all necessary these days unless you "must" have the very latest and greatest. For those of us willing to put up with last years performance, you can get great quad core phones with full hd (1920x1080) screens based on MTK or Rockchip CPU's for well under half that.

I swore off the flagship phones a year ago - the tier down and cheap Chinese knockoffs that do lag behind performance wise but are otherwise fantastic, are "fast enough" now that I just don't have any need for anything faster.

My latest unsubsidised phone is an iOcean X7. With an extra 3000mAh battery it cost me ca $250 for the 32GB version (internal, also supports 32GB micro SD) including paying extra to get it shipped from China in 5 days (many of these models you can also find on Amazon Marketplace from a variety of importers if uncomfortable with ordering direct). It's a fantastic phone, with just a couple of minor caveats (the GPS is shit on a number of the Chinese phones - it's a known chipset problem coupled with bad antenna design; for this model there's a known easy non-invasive fix).

I'm unlikely to consider a phone above $300 again anytime soon...
Have you not heard of the Lumia 800?

http://wmpoweruser.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/lumia-800-...

The only difference (beside the OS) is the presence of tactile buttons (back, home, search).
What does "FUD" mean and how is it relevant here?
This has the added advantage of removing old, crufty migrations. We do this every few months, as there will usually be some problem that will prevent migrations from applying cleanly on new installations (someone made a mistake and reverted imperfectly, something collided and the resolution didn't delete some data, etc).
I don't have hard information here, but I suspect the number is far lower. Each one of these requests is likely for a very small time period; keeping a single individual under surveillance likely takes a large number of requests.

Furthermore, the vast majority of these requests are subpoenas (161K) which can be issued in divorce proceedings or legal tussles over car accidents (was the driver texting?) among other uses.
I really like the look and feel of my Lumia 920, but I only use it for phone calls, text messages and on rare occasions email. Because I don't use the smartphone features, iPhone and Android phones don't hold much appeal.

When the Lumia needs replacement, I don't know what else to get, iPhones seems to break easily, and the build quality of most of the non-Nokia phones seems a bit lower than I would like. Maybe I'll try the Jolla.

People like me seems to be an edge cases, and I doubt that any phone companies would be able to build a business on it.
This sentiment that Nokia should make or should have made Android phones is common. I won't disagree with the article that Lumia sales are disappointing and that Nokia would have faced much harder decisions today were they not part of Microsoft.

But I find it surprising how often I hear fans of Android bemoan the dearth of Nokia Android phones. It implies that there is some hole in the Android market that would be filled by Nokia. That is remarkable—I'd go so far to say implausible—considering the wide spectrum of manufacturers already providing Android hardware.

A quick glance at Verizon's current offerings shows seven manufacturers offering Android phones via Verizon, many with multiple options. Meanwhile, for fans of Windows Phone—few of those as there may be—we have Nokia, Samsung, and HTC, offering one option each. And if rumors are to believed, Samsung may only be offering Windows Phone thanks to Microsoft paying them to do so.

To suggest that Nokia should offer Android phones implies there is some subtle quirk or distinguishing design element that would make a Nokia android preferable to the seven existing Android manufacturers' offerings. Certainly there isn't anything as substantial as a wholly new look and feel or new way of working with applications to distinguish the potential Nokia Android phone from those seven other manufacturers. So it would be something like the color of the case, maybe a few proprietary apps, the material, a few minor specs such as a good camera or wireless charging. Though many existing Android phones offer all of those things and more.

Meanwhile, being the principal Windows Phone manufacturer brings actual variation to the consumer. In fact, taking away the operating system, the Lumia hardware is not very unique. Spec-by-spec, it's about on par with an average Android phone. But it piqued my interest because it's not-Android and I wanted something new to try having become tired of the same old thing. My wife is now waiting for the Icon to be released to replace her Galaxy Nexus because she too wants to move on.

So yes, Nokia's sales are disappointing. Maybe they will look up in the future. Maybe not. But as a consumer, I treasure that they offer something more interesting than just another Android phone.
I have worked in the corporate world for a decade, and the only things I have seen IBM used for were servers (x86 and Z Series). Not once has someone said, hey let's get some software from IBM. Now we'll get our servers from Lenovo. I hope their excellent industrial design doesn't suffer (as it did a bit in the ThinkPad line).
I wouldn't be surprised if there are hardcoded rules that guard senior Google execs against such inadvertent (or by design, take your pick) communications from hoi polloi that uses their products.
I read it as "ask a bunch of our guys for what they think it's worth, and pay out the average of those recommendations", but I'd have expected that to be pretty standard practice for any serious & non-obvious case.
Clearly it did not include a fake ID or that would have been reported.