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Getty Makes Millions of Stock Photos Free to Use
So the CIA Illegally Spied on the Congress Staffers investigating illegal CIA Torture Methods?

------illegality recursion too deep-----------

But seriously this is a critical test for Pres. Obama.
These agencies shouldn't be allowed to pull this kind of Shit without suffering serious consequences.

Time for the Executive to step-up, fire a bunch of high-rankers and NOT sweep this under the carpet as some sort of "Bad Apples" or "Mistakes were Made" whitewash.

Otherwise all that Hope & Change sloganeering will be empty rhetoric.
Challenging can be good. Look at flappy birds. Such as simple looking game, but so challenging it drew players in just to see if they could beat each other. Now if it is completely impossible that is a different story, but just enough challenge that makes players want to keep trying to beat their previous score or their friend's scores is a good combination. Look at the feedback flappy bird got, same situation where people complained it was too hard.

Kind of wish I had an iphone just so I could play it now :)
Mozilla/mozjpeg
Fraud within companies is a risk that can never be eliminated, just managed
Tesla gains new admirers as it heads towards the mass market
I've been to Korean parties/events where on several occasions people left without saying anything and then ended up being called back to the party just to say goodbye.
This mentions that there are ways to secure CSRF tokens so that they can't be stolen via self-XSS (or any kind of XSS) attacks.

How exactly could this be implemented, not including adding a captcha or requiring the user to retype their password for every action?
"Santa Clara County, in the heart of Silicon Valley, has the highest average wage in the country, ... It would be a mistake to think of these plaintiffs as an oppressed set of victims."

I think this is a pretty narrow minded view. If the economy needs a particular skill set to grow then the wages for that skill set need to rise with demand so that market actors (Students) can choose the correct profession and supply the economy with the skill set it needs so it can properly grow and create the products everyone wants.

If the largest employers in the tech industry manipulated the market to keep salaries artificially low, it hurts not only the employees directly involved but also other people employed in the same industry who use average salaries to make employment decisions, students who are trying to decide what career to pursue in school and the economy as a whole which is unable to get the required labor it needs.
You're right. When I said "it's cheaper" I was looking at the online chat one that's $40, and revised my comment to choose the cheaper option without editing the direct price comparison.

Realistically, though, the cost of the service wasn't my point. Rather, it's that paying someone to install software for you is not unprecedented and completely legal. It may be a loophole that toes the line, sure, but toeing the line is not equivalent to crossing it.
Show HN: UpWord Notes SXSW – Find and share notes from SXSW talks
It is controlling still. You're not permitted to use the image itself, you have to use a javascript/iframe insecure embed with no idea what's on the other side.
This is going to be my first time at SXSW, and my brother and I wanted to get as much knowledge and ideas from the conference as possible. The site is a bit sparse in notes right now, of course, since the conference doesn't start for another day or two. But, we would love it if other SXSW attendees want to help spread the wealth by sharing their notes. Just go here if you want to learn more: http://upword-notes.tumblr.com/post/78600992601/shareyoursxs...
Thanks for the answer. That's good reasoning; I figured as well as this all seemed put together it wasn't "oh, geez, didn't think of that!" so I'm glad to see there was a reason. :)
I see a huge opportunity right now for the first major insurer that can figure out the actuarials on this and offer a product to bitcoin exchanges.
What doesn't seem to be coming through here is the power of the subconscious to pattern match and work on problems independently of our main heads. The way this guy figured out the solution to his problem was by observing another person's behaviour in an elevator, which matched a pattern in his mind.

aStimulus is often a good thing. I've actually found watching a lot of unrelated everyday interactions helps with designing systems.
Bookmarklets still work fine (at least in Firefox and Chrome). It's just copy/pasting something with "javascript:" into the URL box that won't work.
Stalked by an online supermarket that wants a 'relationship'
> Paypal is happy to perform totally free payments for transactions that are funded by low-cost sources (bank accounts/ETFs and Paypal balances) and which need no fraud protection.

Doesn't Paypal still take a fee if you pay for a commercial good or service and use your bank account? And its still the same as the CC processor fee?

> Are any of the Paypal competitors offering services that don't include credit card fees, either on the merchants or the customers? Paypal is making those fees visible, but they're not imposing them.

Dwolla, but they're in a grey area of sorts.
Good luck! It looks like ahmetalpbalkan's personal-dashboard which is available at https://github.com/ahmetalpbalkan/personal-dashboard (Apache-2.0)
Thanks for the kind words. We might not choose to highlight titles that could invite controversy (especially not early on), but our intent is to produce a flexible publishing tool that is limited only by the imagination of the author. If that imagination includes, e.g., erotica, I wouldn't in principle have any objections, especially if (as I would generally recommend to most authors) they opted to use a custom domain name.
This post ignores the central driving force behind why mathematicians do mathematics: mathematics was created by humans for their own pleasure. It's a coincidence that they find such useful applications in the real world, and mathematicians mostly don't care (it's like a bonus if someone finds a nice application of your work, and maybe it provides you more grant money).

In this light, why would any mathematician want to replace peer review with machine checking? It would result in two undesirable things: 1) you'd have to submit papers in a machine-checkable format, which very few people enjoy writing because it's not a natural language to do high-level reasoning in. 2) you'd lose the chance for others to tell you whether they think your research is interesting or not, relate it to other work, give their own conjectures or ask about clarification, which is the real reason for the peer review system. Overly complex proofs with subtle mistakes are few and far in between.

Similarly, why would we want to offload the joy of finding proofs and discovering new techniques to computers? That's like proposing we have computers produce all art and music. The process of creation and discovery is largely what makes mathematics worth doing!
Does anyone know an elegant way to sniff browser support for SNI?

Using JS to load an element from the SNI domain and then rewriting URLs if the response is too slow would probably work but surely there are better methods.
HIV gene therapy using GM cells hailed a success after trial
I'm pretty sure that SSIDs have a maximum length of 32 characters. If your SSID is already 32 characters long, then you can't append "_nomap" to the end of your SSID, since that would be too long.
Facebook Will Be First Private Company in U.S. to Pay for Full-Time Beat Cop
For me, it's down to having a chronic health condition. Over the long term (say, 2 years +), it's really easy to lost context -- suddenly, the fact you've been to the toilet 10 times a day rather than 11 seems like an improvement, rather than indicating you probably should see your doctor.

I use QS tools to define where some degree of normality is, so my simple monkey brain doesn't lie to me and I can see when I cross that line :).
There's no way to prove whether a hack is internal. So the only opportunity is to get screwed, just like a customer, but worse.
Late in life and after his death Hoover became a controversial figure, as evidence of his secretive actions became known. His critics have accused him of exceeding the jurisdiction of the FBI.[1] He used the FBI to harass political dissenters and activists, to amass secret files on political leaders,[2] and to collect evidence using illegal methods.[3] Hoover consequently amassed a great deal of power and was in a position to intimidate and threaten sitting Presidents.[4] However, according to biographer Kenneth Ackerman, the notion that Hoover’s secret files kept presidents from firing him is a myth.[5]

Seems some on Wikipedia disagree...
>Otherwise all that Hope & Change sloganeering will be empty rhetoric.

Where have you been?
I don't think firing is going to do much though it is a good start. It's the law that needs change. In fact, in Edgar Hoover's FBI era, spying on the entire government was a norm. Presidents were afraid of Hoover. Before we end up with a second Edgar, or a second McCarthy Red Scare, yeah, I think we should step up and make a firm change. But I am hopeless. Election is coming up and everyone is too busy on every other issue. Intelligence and privacy have always been neglected in election despite most Americans continues shows against NSA spying (https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/10/polls-continue-show-ma...). After watching House of Cards, I don't know politics work anymore. I understand the show was a drama, but if you tell me that half of the congressmen wasn't expecting CIA or NSA secretly watching them I think that's probably a naive mistake.

Somehow, we will find a way to compromise. Some people are 100% against any surveillance, some are okay with 70%, some are okay with 40% and some are okay with 100% of surveillance. The end result of compromise may end up ugly like a bandaid.
You’re right you can’t tell if they’re stolen, but if >10% in circulation are stolen (and growing daily) why would a legit company like overstock.com (just to name one) take them knowing this?

And if they did, why would I trust them knowing that?
OOP Basics in Python 2.x - Part 1
The punishment part is the key. Hacking a bank is not difficult. However, taking the leap to actually funneling money out, and keeping the trail painted black, is well..life-altering and difficult.
I like this because it is suitably in-depth and yet written in a very accessible manner
"Blood levels of serotonin are measurable -- and have been shown to be lower in people who suffer from depression – but researchers don't know if blood levels reflect the brain's level of serotonin.

"Also, researchers don't know whether the dip in serotonin causes the depression, or the depression causes serotonin levels to drop.

"Although it is widely believed that a serotonin deficiency plays a role in depression, there is no way to measure its levels in the living brain." -- (http://www.webmd.com/depression/features/serotonin)
I think asking for that is not likely to go well.

I've talked to plenty of women who have experienced discrimination. But I doubt any of them would post here.

Why? Well, look at your criteria. They have to "prove" themselves competent. And then they have to "demonstrate" discrimination. You've set yourself up as some anonymous internet judge of their qualifications. And of whether their discrimination is real enough. And who's the audience? A bunch of mostly-anonymous mostly-privileged mostly-dudes on a site where there is plenty of previous sexism. Gosh, sounds fun.

It is exactly nobody's job to prove this stuff to you. Sexual discrimination is pervasive in our society. No need to take my word for it; go read Everyday Sexism or Project Unbreakable. Or the many, many women publishing on this, both in tech and elsewhere. And if you'd like to question your own biases, go take the tests at Project Implicit and see how you do.

If you'd like to believe with no hard evidence that tech is the one special, magical place that is different, I'm not doing to try to talk you out of it. But if you're serious about preparing your daughter to work in tech, and preparing tech for your daughter, then I think you should question the assumption that, as we undo the effects of millennia of societal gender discrimination, the space around you just happens to be the one that has totally cleared that.
> Getty's competition is Facebook and Google.

Ow! Burn on http://shutterstock.com eh? And here I thought it was a $3.5 billion company. :P
Microsoft teases unveiling of DirectX 12 later this month
not worse than gif tho :p
1 mile = 1760 yards
The fact that there's a natural correlation doesn't mean the SAT's correlation is identical to the natural one. And if it's worse than it should certainly try and change that.
Somebody disagrees that his files prevented him getting fired. Does anybody dispute that he kept files on political leaders that had information that they didn't want revealed?
Sad to say, but this is probably correct. Bitcoin's anonymity for private keys is also its greatest weakness right now. In the case of disaster, there's no way to prove whether a private key was lost, stolen by an external party, or stolen by the founders. Bank accounts are much easier to audit.
Bookmarked this for when I complete my novel :)
> So what does CoffeeScript give me, that JavaScript does not already have? It actually doesn't give you anything.

This seems like the core of your argument against CoffeeScript, but it's fundamentally flawed. CoffeeScript fixes javascript's warts, eg. it gives consistent scoping rules, simplied/sane classes, list comprehensions, enforces per file encapsulation etc.

You seem to think that CoffeeScript is about aesthetics, but that's probably the least important feature of it.
FYI the boss isn't actually trying to motivate him.
never trust the client. no matter what kind of hacks you come up with to protect yourself. you have to assume the client side is always compromised. always protect yourself in the parts you have full control.
You have a point: it may be that there is no news network that values journalistic integrity.
If Facebook made use of smart OCAP practices, none of that would be possible. Use of object identity as a "security key" would prevent code that doesn't have access to the "key" object from being successful.
The reduced fees could be split by consumer and merchant, so that the consumer gets lower prices. Practically though, I agree with you; right now the ability to reverse transactions is probably worth more than any price savings.
Meet K-Glass: Korea’s Answer To Google Glass
It's also not inconsistent that being forced to work through a "bullshit" question in a foreign language makes it more likely that the "bullshit" with be self evident. If you think of how a "con" artist works, it's by manipulating your confidence. In a "foreign" language you are lacking this confidence and thus less subject to manipulation. That being said, this is not evidence that the field of Psychology itself is not primarily bullshit. Because the latter is typically propogated in our native language ;D.
Stripe is pretty sweet, and we're in their beta to receive funds in two days. Any idea how they actually do this? Two is certainly faster that the normal seven days, and I'd love any insight or theories from the HN community.
Getty and all the premium stock sites do (for certain collections).

When I worked in the agency world, most of our clients' budgets were a bit too tight for rights-managed photography (RM is generally more expensive on top of being more restrictively licensed), but when we did, there was usually a fairly simple set of web form selects for publication type, duration of publication, audience size, etc.
What You Learn in Your 40s
If it was actually about helping the user, there wouldn't be an opt-out link, because the first instruction in the new "self-XSS" instructions is going to be "go to this page and opt-out - yeah, it says a bunch of scary bullshit but that's just because they don't want you to know about $feature!"

The opt-out is there to boil the frog until they can remove it in the guise of "security". I also agree with bsamuels that it provides a convenient CFAA lever to hit in the event you do run a script they don't like. ("They had to deliberately bypass our 'protection' to paste the javascript into the console!")
Is this one of those things to see how many people are going to take interest in your project, when in reality you don't have anything at the moment ? I'm not sure why it looks that way.
Ask HN: I run a tiny home business making widgets. My web page, including order form, is pure HTML.

From what I can tell (looking at page source for the Watsi example), at the very least in order to use Stripe, I have to add some JavaScript to my web page, and of course test it.

Granted, that shouldn't be a big problem for a skilled web developer, but I'm not one.

Am I understanding it right?
Reminds me of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mumm-Ra

His action figure came in standard and special editions.

With Lammily they could bring out a special edition "Lammily after a night on the tiles":

Stilleto heels, one of them broken, a black eye from picking a fight with a cabbie, ciggie hanging out of her mouth, bottle jack-d in her hand, vomit dripping from her chin and an inappropriate tattoo on her arse ... she has a button on the back which when pressed repeats the phrase "hey fuck you, asshole".

Far more realistic.
Less sexy, more accurate title: "Getty to allow free embedding of low-res versions for some of its images. Embeds will contain advertising and other monetization options soon."
How many tweets you make? How many tracks you listen to? How is this data going to help you improve your life? Tracking your sleep is one thing. But most of this is just noise.

The name Exist is creepy. As if, you don't truly exist until you can pigeonhole yourself into a couple of statistics. I swear, everyone here is mind blind.
Perhaps engineers' actual value is far in excess of their salaries? It seems like if it wasn't, there'd be no reason to collude. Does anyone collude to prevent bakers from switching bakeries?
I've been doing the same. A combination of FontAwesome and IonIcons has worked pretty well for me.
Has somebody translated the jpeg library to JavaScript? Besides encoding and decoding jpeg, it has some useful modules that would be nice to have in the web browser.
It's not just background images that are ruled out. It's everything that isn't editorial / news related coverage:

> You may only use embedded Getty Images Content for editorial purposes (meaning relating to events that are newsworthy or of public interest).

So you can use a picture of a thing that Getty has, if you're writing about that thing, and if Getty actually lets you use that particular image, and you can use it in an iframe that might show ads and might show the picture too... don't hold your breath.
Nearly all thought processes deal in abstract concepts directly without being wrapped in language. Language is a transport mechanism for sharing these abstract concepts from one one brain to another, not for processing in the mind.

The idea that there is a "mother tongue" of your thoughts is a common misconception. You can consciously think about speech and language, but it's an exception to how your brain usually operates.
Start now, work hard
We don't get to choose when inspiration visits us. Many times, the solution to an agonizing problem comes when we are far away from it, displacing forceful thought for casual reflection. I know my best ideas sneaked in just like that.
I also know that if I'm facing an acute problem that jeopardizes my product (thus my business, thus my wellbeing) I drift to think of it even when I shouldn't. Such is life.

And no, spending more time solving the bug instead of attending social events isn't the cure either. You need to physically remove yourself from a problem if you want a fresh perspective. Go sleep, hang out, eat something, get back. There are very few problems that I haven't solved in a career full of challenges and this one will not be any different, I just need to respect the mechanics of coming up with a solution.
Regardless your age, there's some good points. Some I wished I had discovered 10 years earlier.
I'm not sure if the "moral" here is that he should have really been working instead ... I think it's nerd chic to be above social interaction, to discuss interacting with other people as if it is the pedestrian and useless frivolity of human culture.
First Meta virtual currency exchange CEO found dead in singapore
MtGox may also have wanted to avoid auditors and security people poking their nose around and discovering that they weren't actually solvent. The jury is still out on what actually happened there.
Particularly sad because in the 1980s/1990s, IT was supposed to have been one of Walmart's competitive strengths (EDI focused interactions with suppliers, realtime inventory tracking, etc.). Maybe they're suffering because they were early and now have a bunch of legacy stuff to support.
They figured out how to immunize themselves during the Bush administration. Get a compliant lawyer to write a memo saying whatever you want to do is legal. Then you are relying on advice of counsel which tends to defeat the mens rea necessary to convict of a crime. The lawyer is also not liable because it's not a crime to give bad legal advice.

This technique is how everyone at the CIA got the hook for destroying video evidence of torture which had already been requested by a congressional committee and a federal court in 2005. It's also explains Yoo's farcical torture memos -- they may not pass the straight face test but they still were a major barrier to criminal liability for those who procured them.
Following your link :
"This list indicates the number of, and per capita cases of recorded rape. It does not include cases of rape which go unreported, or which are not recorded"

Hey don't you see any reason for a victim of rape to not report her/his aggression?
Once you find one or two, think about how they may influence the results in the US and in India. Does the comparison hold?

You can play blind if you want, don't try to convince others. Your statistics cannot be used for international comparisons.
BS. That's all I have to say. It's like Groupwise, worked well within Groupwise but once it leaves the system it's out to the wild-wild-west.
That's incidental isomorphism between the two, and its different from your domain being your data store. You're right, there's a great many apps that can get away with it for awhile. And for those apps that fit in that mold and just kind of stall out or never grow, more power to them. Any app that continues to grow in terms of features or scale WILL break out of that mold—unless they're tethered so tightly to it that it becomes an anchor (which, let's face it, is most rails apps in the wild.)
No, I'd go with Montesquieu; it's beneficial to have multiple power groups provided that they generally prefer to compete peacefully adnd procedurally. If one group or actor decides to do something unacceptable, they get defeated by the others.
Their patent isn't physics; it's an algorithm ... which is equally unpatentable.
No, that's not more accurate - it just reflects your personal assumptions. There is nothing in the article to suggest advertising. Rather, it says users drop in any image they want, as long as the service gets to append a footer at the bottom of the picture with a credit and link to the licensing page. Attribution is not the same thing as advertising.
Hi :) I'd love to have some high quality biofeedback tracked, in particular for measuring stress and concentration levels (in so far as either can be neatly defined).
This is EPIC news! We were just beginning to plan our rolling our own SNI infrastructure to replace Cloudfront due to the previous limitation and cost prohibitiveness of the dedicated IP model. Excited to test this out and see what happens!