skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"First, our tests showed that EMET default configuration can block the exploits seen in the wild."

http://blogs.technet.com/b/srd/archive/2014/03/24/security-a...
Well, on what grounds would he say that it is illegitimate? The UN principles (ratified by the US as well) say that they recognize the Right of people to be governed by themselves. And this is the basis of the creation of many smaller countries after WW2.
Of course, but the point was, that a drift relative to actual time does not cause problems as long as all clocks in the system drift at the same rate while the failure was caused by different clocks in the system drifting relative to each other and therefore with different rates relative to actual time. Therefore I treated actual time as a special clock.
Exactly. In the Sandstorm model, the app would ask for a list of people to invite by telling the platform to present you with a picker UI. The platform knows all your contacts, but the app only ever receives the ones that you select. Yet, from your perspective, the UI is effectively the same as what you'd see on Android.
That's what the commenter said: "..except those supported by the US Government, of course.."
call records? Are you shitting me? The White House is acting like Grandpa trying to wrap his mind around the concept of the Internet. "overhaul", "new kind of court order". Yeah, okay.

Here's the broom, Obama. Need a little help sweeping it all under the rug?
TFA = "the fucking article"?

No source there either, if so. And seems quite a leap if only based off the Crimean situation.
Indeed. And maybe that straight lines on a map of Africa do not countries make.
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redo[1] is almost never mentioned in these discussions. Has anyone tried it in anything significant? It looks good and is a djb design.

[1] https://github.com/apenwarr/redo
> it would take blood being spilled before powers that be would let any kind of secession stand.

It's difficult to understand what blood would be spilled within the EU. The UN constitutionally stands for the right to self-determination and that needs to be respected.

For now, that's difficult within the EU is because several states are in danger of losing their integrity: UK, Spain, Belgium, Italy, perhaps even Germany. No country wants to let the others split up because of the potential consequences for themselves, so they make political statements supporting the others (but not more than statements).

In the end, one properly official referendum falling on this side will force some fair rules of secession to be drawn up: I don't see any option but to respect these movements.
It's interesting that a program which the NSA's director claimed to congress didn't even exist, which was created by the executive branch requires the legislative branch to terminate it.

I'm pretty sure this could be solved by executive order, and/or the DOJ filing with the petitioning the SCOTUS to rule it unconstitutional.
VS2012 and 2013 have caught up to Resharper's features. I still use Resharper's refactoring and Alt-enter shortcuts though.
this is pretty bad code.

For the C version, just changing
strcat(gstr, str);
to
strcat(&gstr[lngth - str_len], str); cuts the execution time by 1/4 for the longest cases.

original: 471sec 4096kb

changed: 356sec 4096kb
Unfortunately, the correct way is terrible.

Seriously, there are many times when I miss the days of nested tables.
Blitz rapes, and blitz rapes, and blitz rapes.
I don't care if the company's slogan is "HAIL SATAN, EVIL ROCKS AND CUTE ANIMALS SUCK" -- if they're doing something illegal, they deserve to be beaten over the head.
He was last active on Github in October: https://github.com/ryanb?tab=activity
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I guess having free trade and free movement of people within the EU makes this kind of thing practical. I'm not sure Venice will happen but Scotland may.
>The constitution did not give states the right to secede.

the right to secede is, unfortunately, given or taken by force only. As US Revolution and Civil War, or Kosovo or Crimea among others show.
For what it's worth, if battery life is important, my Note 3--about as far as you can get from a dumbphone--has amazing battery life. The battery meter barely goes down after an entire day. I occasionally don't charge it for two days and it's still green and going strong. It's literally never died on me. And I don't do anything particularly to keep the battery life up, like reducing screen brightness.
This was not a referendum, nor even a proper opinion poll - just a partisan petition. The figure of 89% is completely meaningless. Both the Daily Mail, and this article, prefer to make their own political point (we hate government and taxes) rather than engage in real news reporting or analysis.
Agree. I might have been placated by this last Summer. At this point it's too little too late. Unless he does something more substantial to open up the intelligence services to scrutiny, he's not the Executive, he's just another puppet of the police state.
Good luck starting a union if all the union organizers are fired as soon as management finds out they're unionizing. Good luck starting new companies without any access to capital. Good luck finding a new job in a labor market like today's.

(If you want to see how easy it is to "start a union," there are plenty of active campaigns by unions to unionize various companies: Starbucks and Jimmy Johns are the ones that come most quickly to mind. The people running those campaigns would appreciate your help, and you'd learn a valuable lesson about labor politics.)
WebSockets was used for the recent Unumbered Sparks installation at TED in Vancouver. People below the sculpture could connect to a local access point on their phones and control lighting and color from a phone web view in their browser (http requests were redirect to the webapp a la login page)

I had the chance to try the sculpture and the projection was extremely responsive, the delay was not very noticeable even moving from phone > access point > renderer on a chrome instance > projector. I'm not sure how indicative of the general development progress this is, but the API seemed very capable.

There's more implementation info on the webpage:

http://www.unnumberedsparks.com/
Good battery life, but online testing suggests that it will die before day's end if you use it for internet browsing.

For comparison, I occasionally don't charge my phone for two weeks.

Edit: apologies for editing :)
I'm actually afraid that the 'stealth mode' startup that's being referred to in this thread will do just that. They brand themselves as the underdog team that took on Google's car with some baseline results. Then eager to bring in users they put prototypes on the road... unfortunately that's scary enough.
Presumably the shortage of labor was still real, and if they needed to hire people, but couldn't poach, then they hired them from the rest of the talent pool. If that's the case, then removing the "cold calls" from the talent search might have had the effect of actually driving up salaries for those not working at these companies, since potentially reduced the supply.

If that's the case, then it would not have saved money, rather, it would have had the effect of simply shifting the money from going to existing Google/Apple/etc employees to applicants from smaller firms.

That is, it changed the distribution of spending, and probably in a more egalitarian way, distributing the spending over a larger pool, instead of simply fighting over, and raising the wages, of the small group of superstars at the big companies.

These companies are spending on R&D and increasing the percentage year over year, they are also spending huge sums of acqui-hires, and hiring faster than the local communities, or their own office space, can handle.

You could argue that excessive salaries are actually bad for allocation. Wall Street has infamously brained drained tons of the best and brightest to figure out how to gain small efficiencies in stock trading. What discoveries might have occurred had string theorists not left to go optimize portfolios?

One thing I wouldn't call engineers is cheap. You're talking about people making upwards of $150-200k in salary, and probably up to half-million when total compensation is considered. I paid more in taxes last year than my mother earned in several years of working as a cashier. And that's pretty sad. I grew up poor so I have a different perspective on this, but I see a lot of #zeroethWorldProblems whining going on in the valley while the world around them is falling apart. It's useful to have some perspective, and honestly, if these companies are to be fined and sanctioned, I'd rather the money go to poor people, instead of lawyers and techies who need to increase the bid on their studio apartment.
The Civil War established the precedent that if a state wants to leave the Union it's going to have to fight its way out.
Fixing a bug that appears once in 24 days
absolutely love it. thanks for the creative way of teaching css -- it's very well done!
You ever notice how President Obama acts like he's nt in charge of the government? The whole "outsider" schtick doesn't really work 6 years into your Presidency.
I think the claims of illegitimacy had something to do with the fact that the vote took place under a military occupation.
I thought it was really interesting that only ~15% of businesses are paying them money.

"34k+ paying institutions"/"225k+ great organisations"
Very nice idea. Of course one can think of more sophisticated modem signal protocols, but keeping it simple is potentially beneficial for those folks (including me) who might want to implement the slave using a low-end microcontroller. Something that could use the UART built into most MCU chips would be a nice thing.
You are happy to implicated in some bullshit libertarian experiment to see if it crashes and burns, harming many people, but are offended about being implicated in some bullshit Christian experiment to see if it crashes and burns, harming many people? To me, the collateral damage of Christian fuckery and libertarian fuckery are roughly comparable.

But in any case, Thiel gives money not only to candidates of the Libertarian Party, but also (in fact, mainly) to the regular, anti-gay GOP. It could be that he hates gays. It could be that he doesn't, but just considers funding anti-gay propaganda to be acceptable collateral damage in a quest to promote the Republican Party's other positions. Either way, he's a much bigger problem in my mind than some small fry giving 4-figure amounts to them, because he's giving 6-figure amounts to the bigots, which they can use to promote bigotry.
Are you fully aware of what they offer? They have all kinds of well-known and arcane certifications, integrations with a few dozen products that are only relevant to large enterprises, a pretty big third-party ecosystem and the API to support them, and the large team required to sell and support these tools.

It's not just file storage for five bucks a month.
Yes it is available and I guess I sort of boxed myself in when I said not available. It's not available as a default install ... at least not on the FreeBSD 10 install disk I used.
>That's what an IPO was originally supposed to be for, right? Raising capitol, rather than cashing out?

Perhaps, in a time prior to companies "routinely" raising massive sums (like $410MM) pre-IPO.
I'm not sure that the oligopoly really captured that much money. Oligopolies only work when nearly everyone is in on it. If you have too many 'cheaters' than the cartel can't control the price.

There were a lot of tech companies that weren't in on it. They were still poaching employees, and employees were leaving to do their own start-ups.
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From Wikipedia

"The available choices did not include keeping the status quo of Crimea and Sevastopol as they were at the moment the referendum was held. Many Western and Ukrainian commentators argued that both choices would result in de facto separation from Ukraine."
I was responding to a parent comment: "The point of the down payment is that you're able make good on the loan."

I don't agree with that statement, as I believe the primary purpose of the down payment is a source of risk reduction for the lender, whose only guaranteed recourse is the collateral on the loan. In the UK, home loan products each have max LTV (loan-to-value) thresholds, and prices are inversely related to those (though not linearly of course). Lenders don't care whether the LTV being less than 100% is the result of years of saving, a gift from parents, a windfall of some kind, or just because you happened to make money when you sold your previous property. They care mainly about the LTV (which affects their downside risk) and the ratio of your regular monthly income to the monthly payments (to make sure you can comfortably afford the repayments).

Do you disagree with my statement, or are you just pointing out that the down payment is only one of the factors which affects the risk of the loan, and that the risk of the loan is only factor which affects the lender's decision?
"Cuban owned a small position in it"

No, not if he invested $350k in the seed round (in 2005).

Take a look at the capital raises.#

_________________

# "DFJ got in early, contributing the whole $1.5 million Series A round in 2006"
Note that there are two proposals here, much like good cop (Obama Administration) and bad cop (House Intelligence Committee[1]), but both leave broader §215 authority intact i.e. business records not to mention §702 and Upstream collection.

Both also seem to be attempting to reinstate the full Telephony Activity Detection Process which they haven't been able to do legally since 2009[2][3] due to alert abuses[4].

[1] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230394970...

[2] http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2013/12/the-na...

[3] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/03/24/nsa-bids-to-expand-spyi...

[4] http://www.emptywheel.net/2014/01/23/how-nsa-spies-on-first-...
Good luck starting new companies? Why yes indeed in fact. I'm very well versed on the history of the free market in America for example, circa 19th and early 20th century. There was no problem in starting companies - in fact it was a boom time for entrepreneurialism - despite the extremely low level of regulation.

If there was a market opportunity to make money, capital was available. For every juggernaut there were numerous others that wanted to chop that juggernaut down to size. JP Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, they all had countless large enemies willing to finance competitors.

Why should it be easy in a free market to start a union inside of a company? Free markets don't guarantee you have a right to a job or a right to start a union at a company. In a case where the employees don't own the company, assuming they're strictly labor, they agree to work there and get paid for it, or they can quit. That's a free market for labor. You also don't have to work at a company to attempt to organize its labor in a free market.

(also I should note, my intentions aren't to have a debate on the pros and cons of free market economics, but rather to describe what a free market for labor actually is)
"The fine article", if you prefer. Don't be coy: the statement was obviously a political throwaway line, which needs no source, and is certainly to be expected from mises.org. (If it pissed you off, they win!) It is of course grossly unfair to the President, because there are numerous other areas that he has encouraged to secede.
I stick with .pdf files

However, that might be bad practice.
Those three words obtained them disproportionate goodwill, so now they deserve the opposite.
> Good, but other tests say it dies after 9 hours of browsing.

I wouldn't really know, because never have I been in a situation where I actually used my phone nonstop for 9 hours. =]

For my typical usage, the battery will last several days at least and probably a bit more if I put more effort into reducing battery consumption. I actually don't know how long it'll last since it's never died. Definitely not two weeks, but long enough for me to not really worry about the battery life.

All that said, I can definitely see the appeal of a phone that lasts two weeks. I think the Note 3 sits at a decent compromise between that and my old phone, a Galaxy S3, which could barely last 8 hours (of typical, very intermittent usage).
The bug is not related to ActiveX controls, but current exploits for this bug rely on one of them.
I find the best thing to do is just disable all notifications except text messages and calls on my phone.
Stripe's now available in many more than four countries: https://stripe.com/global
> There is nothing in the US constitution that actually allows secession

True, but there is nothing that forbids it either explicitly. And I could argue that from the History of the US, of how they were formed, and the Declaration of Independence, Secession is very much considered to be a cultural Right.

Even Lincoln said that:

> Any people, anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable, a most sacred right, a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world.

This is further observed by foreign observers such as Tocqueville after the US were established:

> The Union was formed by the voluntary agreement of the States; and in uniting together they have not forfeited their nationality, nor have they been reduced to the condition of one and the same people. If one of the States choose to withdraw from the compact, it would be difficult to disprove its right of doing so, and the Federal Government would have no means of maintaining its claims directly either by force or right.
a fun one that i ran into yesterday, that maybe is basic but i hadn't known before: z-index can only be applied to positioned elements. if you need to z-index something, it can't be position:static
That's nice to hear. His videos were very useful when I first started using Rails.

I hope he comes back refreshed as ever and continues to educate thousands worldwide. I'd love to see some of his content touch on integrating something like AngularJS/Backbone into a Rails application.
I think you mean Declaration of Independence

When in the course of human affairs, it becomes necessary...
You ought to be able to get at least $100 million for this idea. Look at how well it corresponds to your typical dot-com:

1. You have absolutely no understanding of the size of your market, the frequency with which they buy shirts, the price they're willing to pay-- or even whether anyone needs a custom-made shirt on 48 hours.

2. You're not a tailor, you apparently haven't worked in the fashion, textile or manufacturing industry and probably couldn't tell me anything about how shirts are made.

3. "Custom-tailored" means "built to fit a specific, usually unique configuration." If "cuffs, collars and buttons would all be standard", you're not custom-tailored.

Also you don't mention fabric, which is one of the most important issues.

Also, most tailors would tell you that if you're just entering measurements in whole integers, it isn't custom-tailored. Now If I can enter "18 3/16 x 37 5/8", that's closer to custom.

But a sine qua non of custom-tailoring is being measured for the garment by someone who knows how to measure.

4. I'm going to measure myself? And there is a no-questions-asked return policy? That should be fun.

5. You're planning to get product from wherever they're made to the buyer in 48 hours? You know that most of these shirts are assembled in Asia, right?

They're all minor issues, though. Hey, if Outbox-- or grocery delivery services-- can get funded, I'm sure you can too.
How did people come to the conclusion that these companies had the agreement to reduce wages?

It seems like they had this agreement - only because they hated their employees being poached on.

It's not price fixing.

It's self preservation.

Sure it had a side effect of keeping wages low - but that was not their goal. None of them are short on money.

I'm not saying what they did was right - but lets not frame it in a context that makes it look like they did this to not let employees have more money.

When in reality - they did it to stop others from stealing their employees.
<3 you Ryan, hope you're well.
Yeah, this cable can carry your data at the lightning speed of 800 GBPS
Is anyone familiar with SCons? I stumbled across it the other day when I was playing with gpsd.[^1]

[^1]: ESR lovefest: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=3089
Best part of my dumbphone is that I can use twitter via SMS.

That's actually the second best part. The best is that I can use it as a dial-up modem should the need ever arise. I'll probably never need it, but I still think it's awesome.
From the S-1:

Prior to the completion of this offering, we had two classes of common stock...identical except with respect to voting...

Upon the completion of this offering...All currently outstanding shares of our Existing Class A common stock, Existing Class B common stock and redeemable convertible preferred stock (including shares to be issued upon the exercise of the Net Exercise Warrant immediately prior to the completion of this offering) will convert into shares of our new Class B common stock.

After the offering there will only be one type of shares, not two as at Facebook.
> It's interesting that a program which the NSA's director claimed to congress didn't even exist, which was created by the executive branch requires the legislative branch to terminate it.

IIRC, the Guantanamo terrorist prison program was also created without congressional action, yet its closure was successfully prevented by Congress -- or at least, congressional opposition to closing it was sufficient for Obama to escape blame for failing to close it as he had promised during the election.

So, this could just be a plan to transfer blame for the NSA onto Congress. If he proposes a bill to reign in the NSA that he knows Congress will not pass, it maintains the status quo but he can say that he wanted to end it.
Don't worry, he's got his own strategy to keep programmers' salaries down:

http://gawker.com/mark-zuckerbergs-self-serving-immigration-...
Eeek, I was replying to someone in the thread, whoops.
It was direct lawsuits (not me, just a company I know).
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I bet it still doesn't beat my Nokia C139 :P
just a question - is this any worse than the "JSON-in-script" output method?
Under those principles, significant parts of Israel have the right to secede. Will the international community support the secession of East Jerusalem? So far as I can discern, the governing principles are more complex than just identifying a territory which will give majority support to a separation vote.
(I work at Stripe)

That's not currently possible with our marketplace products (Connect or Transfers).
I'll never understand how some will advocate equality and sensitivity and in the same breath and with no irony, drop a derogative like "neckbeard." The venomous way some spit the word "bro" just reeks of hypocrisy.
I'm no fan of Facebook, but in the absence of evidence that they acted tactically, it would seem fair to give them credit for understanding that participating in a cartel is both stupid and unethical.
Precisely -- they should be taken to task for their unethical and illegal actions, not some cutesy-poo slogan.