skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's a very good idea, coupled with what other people have suggested (Increase the time on the fly for devices/IPs making repeated or spammy looking requests) I could see this working.
I'm liking this new trend of completely open source companies (e.g. Code Combat). I feel as though this it will either work immensely well or be a complete failure. It'll be interesting to see where it goes.

On a side note, are the legalities of sharing ownership in the revenues of Coderwall through App Coins clean? Does it exempt Coderwall from SEC regulations?
Waste it on more slower code.
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I'm having trouble understanding what you're saying here. What's left after saving and spending?
I use https://www.feedsapi.org/ for this
I practice law elsewhere, but if I were a lawyer for the NSA, I would be scared after reading this opinion. Some of its reasoning about cell phones is directly applicable to the NSA's reported invasions of Americans' cell phones, indefinite collection of all Americans' call logs, and other matters. Admittedly, the Court tends to defer more to the executive branch in national security contexts than in criminal ones like this, but this opinion is ominous for some of the NSA's surveillance programs. In some places, the opinion's discussion of the inherent intrusiveness of cell phone searches reads very much like Judge Leon's rejection of the NSA's phone metadata collection program from December 2013 (http://online.wsj.com/public/resources/documents/JudgeLeonNS...).

And it's ominous for the NSA not just because the reasoning is directly applicable to some NSA programs, it's also that all 9 Justices signed on to an opinion that is more than assertive; it is scathing and sarcastic. E.g., Justice Roberts mocks the government for calling a cell phone search 'materially indistinguishable' from a search of a wallet, purse, or address book. That is "like saying a ride on horseback is materially indistinguishable from a flight to the moon" (p. 17).

This line alone would make an NSA lawyer blanch: "We cannot deny that our decision today will have an impact on the ability of law enforcement to combat crime... Privacy comes at a cost" (p. 25). NSA lawyers should be seriously concerned that in the criminal context, the Court unanimously announced a broad rule that the government almost always needs a warrant to search even an arrestee's cell phone - and then blithely dismissed the government's arguments about the after-effects of such a rule, saying, "Oh well, privacy comes at a cost."
This is what the Google IO attendees received on their way out of the keynote.
Thanks for explaining that you get $6 either way (Hardcopy or Kindle) I would have assumed you get more with the hard copy.
Sorry, was a misnomer on my part. I was using "precedent" in the broad sense, i.e., to mean a preexisting reference point. But you're quite right in that the term has a very specific legal meaning, and I should have been more mindful of that. (IANAL, and I should probably preface a lot more of my legal discussions with that.)

Nevertheless, I think my point still stands. Court needs to find, sort, and prioritize reference points essentially.
The API stuff that solves these captchas is really akin to Amazon's Mechanical Turk and outsourced to places like India.

http://antigate.com/

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Being an attendee from last year, I can guarantee you that it's people still filing in to find seats well into the presentation. The exit is towards the back left of where the camera is. People going to the right are looking for seats. It's still not an attractive angle.
Anybody knows what John is supposed to maintain on his site? Is the upgrade of the software the responsibility of his provider?

cryptome.org seems to currently run Apache 2.2.22, whereas 2.2.27 is the most recent in the 2.2 branch.
One UX issue with the watch is that it seems it will need many swipes to find the one app you're looking if you have more than a couple apps installed (see the number of apps people have on their smartphones now), let alone find the one screen you're looking for in that app; but I suppose they expect people to use voice commands for that.
> You obviously don't have an accurate understanding of ReCaptcha implementation

I do (I've implemented them many times), but no point in arguing.

I must be the only person who finds the level of security a captcha provides worth the 1 to 2 seconds it takes to type in a Captcha. And if done properly, you should only have to type a captcha once per site.

Which is easier? Allow form spam on your site, or have a user type a captcha once the first time they visit and decide to post a comment or something? Captcha's have provided a tradeoff between inconvenience and protecting your site.
So by default when the SDK returns 'true' for a write, yes it's just been written to RAM on the first (master) node. However you can if you desire 'observe' the write, which will return true when the write has hit disk and/or the RAM of the replica nodes (depending on what options you specify).

Ultimately it's a performance tradeoff - if you want sub microsecond writes for your workload then something has to give - certainly for many workloads (session stores, ad tracking, messaging queues) the tradeoff that you may loose the last few writes if you loose a node and it's replicas simultaneously is an acceptable one.

(Full disclosure: I work for Couchbase).
True, email shouldn't be used for password recovery nor user authentication anyway. But guess what, many sites still do it. Even if site security is otherwise flawless, password recovery using email ruins everything.
No iBook?
I thought about this as well. I went and registered instacaptcha.com but I never managed to do it and the domain expired.

Seems to be doable. The user pays 1 usd/month and gets 100 credits. The extension author can outsource the solving to http://antigate.com/ and get the answer in 15 seconds.
Your original comment said that the biggest problem was home-grown captchas, and that people should use something established like recaptcha - the article was specifically complaining about recaptcha.

After your 'edit' my comment makes no sense.

I don't want to spend more than a second or two working out what a captcha says - if it wasn't something I absolutely needed I'd probably have gone away long before the author's patience ran out.
I don't see the ultimate difference between the skeuomorphism of Apple (which was extreme) and this. It's applying "physical" properties to the digital.

I'm gonna pass, and slag this "material design" every time it comes up. Clownshoes design philosophy, though I suppose I'm not surprised. Look how many steps it takes to "logout/login from a different account" now.
I regret engaging this point of the conversation since it was all going to come down to "but it wasn't unanimous!"
It's not that there's something left after saving and spending; it's that there are different types of spending. PSR is a useful starting point, but not a complete story, in assessing consumer health and markets.

For instance, it is not incongruous right now to say that a) people are saving proportionately less, and b) people are not buying as much stuff. Obviously they are spending in direct proportion to what they're not saving -- but the categories of their spending matter a great deal.

Tl;dr is I'm not disagreeing with you at all; I'm just expanding.
By weighing the intentions of the company against the intentions of the law.

The intentions of the law were to prevent this rebroadcast of content. The intentions of Aereo were clearly to do this. Aereo tested the waters by trying to make a distinction between public and private, and between transmission and performance. Ultimately, the court did not agree such distinctions were valid.
Except you lose the benefit of anonymity, which is a big draw for many of the places using Captchas. Unless I don't understand your idea, which is possible.
Here is the actual Google blog post: http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com.ar/2014/06/introduci...
Well V8 is the one that matters most. More users use Chrome then Firefox, so it's more important on the client-side. And server-side javascript is probably going to be running on V8. Node.js, Google's scripting platforms, all run V8.

It's like complaining if a C++ performance article only tested with GCC. Sure, there's other compilers out there, but that's the big one.
You must have missed the part where he tried to guess with the easier of two words and still failed. The control words are rarely any easier to read than the unknown word.
Thank you. about 3-4 hours :)
I used to work in the printing industry. I thought that if I got a small order, like a set of business cards, it would be a great way to break the ice. It almost never worked.

Businesses are in business to make money. If you can provide value (I'm not saying you can't) and they see an ROI on their money, they'll pay. They want a solution to their problem AND they want to work with someone they like and trust.
Well if you trust the ruling quoted in http://www.mercurynews.com/rss/ci_17625637 then the distinction is that a transmission from equipment you own to equipment you own is private, but transmission from equipment you rent to equipment you own is public. Don't ask me to explain why.
Good question, I installed the program "NegativeScreen" on a Windows 7 VM awhile back, can't remember if the inversion spans the entire desktop or if it's per connected monitor (strongly prefer the latter).

Give it a shot, on Linux here so not sure what other options are available. If you can get per screen inversion then you're golden.
The IBM Blue Gene/Q cannot in any reasonable way be described as "racks of PCs running Linux with souped up network cards".
Any sort of system I've tried to come up with for reading and writing only ensured that I didn't do either.

I rarely read my stuff. And much of it I don't really want to read. — Once I have the power of hindsight, reminding myself of squandered opportunities and silly apprehensions I once had (in great cathartic unending detail, no less) can be a hard pill to swallow.

But those couple days each year I spend a moment flipping back to a random page in my life — however so infrequently — are rich with perspective. There seems to be a lot of wisdom in that delta between then and now. Like reliving how terrified I was of some impending event in my past and now, years later, really being able to internalize the reality of "That wasn't so bad, was it? You could've just relaxed that whole time. Next time, just relax."

I don't think it's essential to revisit your writings regularly. I reckon most of the value in writing is the self-reflection necessary to serialize your mind to paper in the first place. It forces you to confront yourself when it's far easier to perpetually avoid yourself up until the very end. I think when you're analyzing yourself from the outside, you have no choice but to grow in some way.

As long as you're writing at all, I think you're doing fine.
I think one of the main distinctions that people fail to make in this discussion is that in these cases, the evidence of the warrantless search was entered against them in a court of law. They needed a warrant to view the phone data and then to use that as evidence against you, in this case they said the search was illegal so all fruit of the poisonous tree could not be introduced at trial. While I disagree with what the nsa is doing, they are not using the evidence obtained illegally against you, granted you do have the right to be free of unreasonable searches and seizures, which was one of the main complaints back in colonial days wrt general writs, which is why that language is there. They are two different things, one is the right be to free of unreasonable searches (nsa), and another related to the use of evidence you had on you at time of arrest being searched as part of you being taken in to custody.
It made me chuckle that trying to share the book on Amazon using the email share option on the page is blocked. I suspect due to the word Bullshit in the title
> One possible difference is that Apple has signaled that Swift will be the language at some point

Have they? Then I really hope they add some easy form of C++ interop to swift in a future release.

There's so much C++ code out there in the Mac/iOS world that rewriting it to swift (or even just wrapping it in C) would make no economic sense.
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Its done by the Census, the SSA doesn't track it that I noticed:

http://money.usnews.com/money/retirement/articles/2013/02/11...

Turning 65 is no guarantee that you will be ready or willing to retire. A rapidly growing number of Americans are continuing to work beyond their 65th birthday. The proportion of people age 65 and older in the workforce grew to 16.1 percent by 2010, up from 12.1 percent in 1990, according to a recent Census Bureau report. And the percentage of people between ages 65 and 69 who are working grew 9 percentage points to 30.8 percent in 2010.

Its still age 65 for the people who have hit age 65 so that is close enough I think?
You may be surprised to hear that there are books that mention Hitler in the first paragraph — in fact, some concern themselves with him exclusively!
Direct link to the original presentation by Scott Meyers: http://vimeo.com/97337258 (the article is just a summary)
Referring to someone's past actions using their preferred pronouns at the time of those actions is bigotry? Gosh, better inform all those contemporary news articles that they're retroactively disrespectful.
So they freely admit that they lied to customers and charged them for fees to law firms in fact did not exist, but were invented by themselves...

I fail to see how this doesn't immediately lead to prosecution for fraud.

Maybe I don't understand the finer points of the law, but it seems like they're saying: "Yeah, we attempted to get money from people by lying to them," which in my naive world sounds exactly like a confession of fraudulently obtaining money.

Where are the DPP for goodness' sake?
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This might be big, I was just done complaining about the user interface of the GMail web app. If this means that developers can now effectively create another interface on top of a real GMail API this has the potential to really change things. I can already envision several ways in how I could improve my inbox management and reduce the time spent sifting through emails.
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It's not intuitive, but since building sites must halt work during strong winter days, a large increase in the number of 'snow days' has an outsize effect on the total output of the construction sector --one of the largest sectors of the US economy-- during Q1.

This past winter was peculiar in that regard because not only there were more snowstorms overall than the previous year, but also there were major snowstorms in regions that seldom see that kind of weather like the South. And it shows in the figures for residential and commercial building during the quarter.

These seasonalities however are well understood and don't matter nearly as much, in part because construction companies often catch up on their delayed projects during the subsequent quarter. This is one the reasons why reading too much into annualized quarterly fluctuations can be misleading at times [1].

[1] http://jaredbernsteinblog.com/whoa-whassup-with-that-big-neg...
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Cue mass papercut epidemic.
> Most people are quite dumb.

I know what you're trying to say here, but consider today's xkcd[0] as a counter-point. I think "most people" are quite capable of solving a lot of puzzles. This issue is that any puzzle that we can solve in a reasonable timeframe is often a good target for a computer-generated solution as well.

[0] http://xkcd.com/1386/
You can do WebM live streaming.
HTTP DELETE: HTTP 200, 202 or 204 All the Time?
It's illogical, but not in a way that's fatal to copyright. If the broadcasters have control of the content, they can license its usage downstream as they see fit.

So it's stupid, but not self-contradictory. The law can be enforced with no contradictions.
They are especially hard because the numbers overlap with each other-- so the numbers "three", "five", and "seven" become this weird mash of "threeven".
It is worth remembering that reset links should also be hashed. If the database is compromised the reset ID can be retrieved without needing access to the users email.
> if punishment doesn't work, we can stop wasting time on it and expend our energy on more constructive responses

You assume we can choose which direction to go towards. With no free will, we have as much choice in expending our energy as offenders had in committing offenses. It's absurd to state 'we can' or 'we should' while assuming a fully deterministic world.
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I like the idea of opening gmail up to developers via a public API, but I don't like that it comes at the cost of removing support for an open standard like IMAP. I'm worried that API access could be cut back or eliminated entirely in the future depending on developer uptake, leaving gmail entirely inaccessible to third-party applications.

Edit: I'm going off of this sentence:

>It will replace IMAP, a common but complex way for applications to communicate with most email services, limiting the number of apps that can work with Gmail

Maybe it's misleading, but it sounds like the plan is to drop support.
Ouch, my retinas!
I expect people would not understand this. They would start to get confused between their Google password and that of the service they are trying to access.

Also, after users learn the new process, it opens up a new phishing attack vector for Gmail.
They didn't but they re-named it. You have to click on "Typical Traffic" and then adjust the time and date from there.
Nice, but I'm very reluctant to give any third-party access to my mailbox. Most sites I use let me reset my password by email, so this is like handing over the keys to the castle.
I guess when you can't think of a creative title, just use a profanity.

I don't want my 9-year-old to be exposed to this kind of language either on the coffee table or on the tablet, so I won't be buying the book.

Could you put out a PG-rated version for those of us prudish and old-fashioned types?
Nothing makes you appreciate "don't miss" like deleting /etc
on a live system. For a good few weeks after that I nearly introduced a peer review process to my own shell.

That being said, there's certainly something to that one event doing more to reform my being fast and loose with destructive commands than years of being told/telling myself to do so. (Something likely being that I'm apparently a slow learner.)
It would be better if the website allowed the user to set the new password first and then send an email to confirm the password change.
To be frank, competitive programming is a niche field which requires years of practice.

Imagine it like solving problems in mathematics , the better your brain is used to solving similar problems in the past, the faster you will end up solving the relevant task at hand.
Which then means that you're not allowing the kernel to make such decisions as what I described. (Rarely used pages paged out to allow for more disk cache.)
> Why are you talking about 2008?

I'm talking only about consumer borrowing and spending prior to the crisis in 2008. My understanding is that, five years after the crisis, consumer spending still has not recovered[1], which seems rather unusual for an economic recovery.

PS. I modified the first paragraph in my comment above, so it more clearly conveys what I actually meant to say.

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[1] For example, see http://www.clevelandfed.org/research/trends/2014/0214/01houc...
If computers get so good at solving captchas, are we also getting better OCR?

Time to switch to next, harder, AI problems as captchas :)
This is one space where Google really excels.

We're in the AWS ecosystem, and the database offerings are really subpar. DynamoDB, which I originally expected to be somewhat comparable to MongoDB, is an incredibly frustrating (and expensive) product to use. AWS Data Pipeline is extremely confusing and very expensive as well.

AWS's offerings really lag behind Google's offerings (like BigQuery) in this space. Hopefully AWS can catch up because I'd rather not have requests bouncing between data centers.
>In addition, I don't understand the pivot towards elevation. The industry has been moving towards flat design. I like flat. It's simple. Less design is often better than more deisgn.

I was absolutely relieved to see the elevation parts of the new design. Flat looks good, but it's been headed to an extreme recently. I can't stand the near total flatness of parts iOS7/8; it makes it very difficult for me to visually distinguish content.
Someone go make the dream of Anil Dash come true:

https://twitter.com/anildash/status/312048420720345088
I like that they keep developing Polymer, but the IE10+ requirement makes it a hard sell for customer projects :/
Thanks cfield! I appreciate your perspective on this and we've spent a lot of time getting the legal structure right.

The App Coins are a way of determining royalty payouts for now. The only way to earn them is by participating in building the product, and effectively joining the product's partnership. This would be similar to how a law firm partnership is structured and is why these are not securities.

Assembly App Coins can't be purchased by outside investors and Assembly App Coins can't be transferred to other individuals not in the "partnership".
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I can't believe we have not figured out something better than captchas by 2014. I would imagine Google could figure at least how to bake something into Chrome which many would eventually follow. It's asinine that all legit customers have to go through such a silly, completely unrelated hoop.
Yes, and it seems Apple is slowly becoming the pre-2013 Microsoft. Funny times!
The article is light on the technical details.
Here's the API: https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/
Pardon my confusion, but wasn't your original comment arguing against homebrew Captchas?

Also, you say that you have an accurate understanding of ReCaptcha implementation based on the qualification that you have "implemented them many times". ReCaptcha was created by Google, so unless you work for Google on the team that implemented ReCaptcha, it doesn't seem possible for you to have "implemented them [ReCaptcha] many times".
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Two key bits from the first two paragraphs of the article:

"make it easier for other Internet applications to use information in your email"

"It will replace IMAP"

First one seems par for the course, the second one doesn't seem to be reflected in the Google blog post [1]. Certainly for the moment, thankfully, it looks like IMAP is staying:

"The Gmail API should not be used to replace IMAP for full-fledged email client access" [2]

[1] http://googleappsdeveloper.blogspot.com/2014/06/introducing-...
[2] https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/
Backwards compatible changes to the language is allowed in Go 1.x.