skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Skeptical at first as well coming from the good ol curl/grep/sed backend scraping world, I changed my mind considering authentication issues and instructions saving: no more need to try and auth on complex websites via phantom without knowing what actually happens, I can just log in and see in my browser what I actually wanna scrape and still rerun it later as a script.

And I just loooove listening to artoo beep over and over ;)
People's
and
Taste of India

were my go to spots before I left Pgh for NYC.
Basically, it makes scraping accessible to almost anyone who can use a browser and write some CSS selectors.
What is the Offset column in the list of participating projects? It's not clear at all from the release page -- I thought it meant that they would be released later by _offset_ amount of time (weeks, months) relative to Eclipse release, but it doesn't seem to be the case as checking a couple of them I saw that they will be released on the same day as Luna.
Absolutely blown away with the demo video (centripetal issues aside) though annoyingly I'm one of those 'other' users, so I have to ask: Anything android related in the pipeline?
Its definitely more expensive now, when I rented in 2009-2010 rooms in similar places were more like $300-400/month. Still a pretty affordable place regardless.
Because I wanted a life partner, not just a sex partner. And I wanted children, and someone to raise them with.

Didn't mind the ladykilling. :)
And even more people buy toilet paper. And yet toilet paper is also not real competition for cable broadband. Counting customers doesn't establish real competition. I have both cable broadband and wireless. Neither is a meaningful substitute for the other. I can't watch movies over the wireless and I can't take my cable modem out with me, so I'm not sure what you're getting at by pointing out that wireless is growing faster.
What's the point of a fallible solution? The only people who actually need cryptography need infallible solutions. Everyone else can rely on security by obscurity--rot13ing their text will be good enough for them.
It's not really confusing unless you ask the ISPs. NN is all about treating all traffic equally. No QoS on the ISP level.
Hey hey,

Creator of Streamus here. :) Nice app! Feel free to look through Streamus' codebase for ideas if you'd like, https://github.com/MeoMix/StreamusChromeExtension Just give attribution where appropriate.

I like your idea of using Billboard and iTunes charts. While not integrated into the actual UI, Streamus does integrate with Beatport's charts and I have BBC1's charts on my radar. I suppose others could be added as well, but not something I'm looking to do in the short term.

There's actually some semblance of user accounts with Streamus -- they're just not required. I do generate unique IDs for every installation and that can sync across PCs using chrome.storage.sync, but there isn't a lot of protection against malicious activity on that at this point. That is pretty much my #1 priority after I finish ironing out the last of some client-side bugs. I will be adding support for various openID logins and making users who aren't signed-in "second class citizens" while disabling the ability to delete records -- just providing them with the ability to mark them deleted so they don't show up client-side. That way someone can't go on a rampage nuking unauthenticated user data.

Anyway, keep up the good work. Happy to help you with any snares you encounter in building your extension. There's more than a couple 'gotchas' :)

Cheers
"During my time we disrupted a number of exceptionally
serious terrorist operations."

Why is this kind of work not law enforcement work instead of intelligence agency work?

It seems like the current policy is to reclassify many types of illegal activities as being in the same category as aggression by nation states even when only a handful of individuals domestically are involved, and that this reclassification is done for the purpose of sidestepping civil liberties protections.
Then make sure you watch "Human Resources" to see how manipulated and unknowingly controlled most of Human society is.
Maybe it varies by state then.

In Upstate NY, you can buy cable services from Time Warner, Earthlink or a couple of smaller carriers. In the past, this was a good deal, now the 3rd parties don't seem to have access to higher speed services.
I'm not sure I understand you.

Firstly, Pay-to-play (which I think you are talking about?) isn't the same as an app store for mods. I'm not sure if you play Minecraft, but there is a very diverse range of mods available, of differing qualities and all hosted on malware infested download sites. That's a real problem that deserves to be looked at.

I'd never advocate that core features of Minecraft be made pay-to-play. Instead, I'm advocating exactly the same model as we see in Android or iOS: the core system is free, and there is a simple way to get extra features onto it. Some of those maybe free, and some may not.

Secondly, the number of bytes doesn't determine the value of anything.

Thirdly, "It's dishonest, and we're the ones allowing it to happen" - who, specifically is the "we" you speak of here? I'm not doing anything to allow it to happen. (I'm not specifically doing anything to stop it, either: I'm simply not involved. I'm genuinely curious who you are talking about).
I think if I were born in 1850, the right thing to do would be to try and convince other people of why I'm right about race and slavery.

Yes, part of democracy is accepting that some people will disagree with you. The right way to go is to either compromise or to convince them you're right. Incidentally, that's what actually happens most of the time.
I can't recall the exact process, but you can bookmark a certain Project Gutenberg page on the Kindle that puts basically all of their works at your fingertips.

May I also plug Distributed Proofreaders (http://www.pgdp.net/), which is a major source of primary source documents to Project Gutenberg. It is the power of the global community of internet citizens who digitize scanned documents that are difficult or impossible to OCR.

To anyone looking for inspiration and creativity and innovation; that is where you will find those stories that are obscure and hidden and have not been rehashed ad nauseam.
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Yeah, that is a very resounding quote but it does not take into account that there have been few incentives to remain a Cristian and people have, despite not being "pressed".

Unless you think millions of people can be brainwashed by priests and pastors.

And it is remarkable how "Science" was born in those countries where they do not work on that date.
I think my idea is consistent with both the Great Man theory and its critics. I'm concerned that, due to the negative impacts of poverty and other social failure modes, we're preventing the formation of Great Men (and Great Women - one of the grand social ills that we've only halfway addressed is sexism).
Although I may not say it specifically in many/all the posts, I write a lot about this from a holistic perspective on http://cjremus.ghost.com, would love to hear your thoughts on some of the posts and whether they might relate to some of the things you're working through too...
I poked around the website and their projects look awesome, exactly the kind of stuff I'd make if I were more talented. I wish I lived in Greece because I would find these guys and beg them to hire me.
Virtru, A Secure Email App Built By An Ex-NSA Engineer, Raises $6M
The best Indian food is at the truck on Bigelow in Oakland. Delicious, cheap, and authentic (according to a (north) Indian girl I used to date. )
> It would be extremely challenging, legally. If we're talking about cable rather than copper, the last mile was built by private companies with private money.

What about the government claiming the cable under eminent domain? You can pay the companies "market rate", and when you're done you can lease the lines to anyone, including the original company?
Applying Pomodoro Technique
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Lived in PGH for 10 years and now I'm on year 9 of NYC.

I definitely miss the cost of living but I'm making much more money that I ever did in Pittsburgh. I love it there though I day dream of moving to back and living in a nice big house in the east end.
Oh, the irony: http://oi60.tinypic.com/21o111t.jpg

That's pretty much my point.
this jquery injection looks kind of dangerous. Looks like code from code.jquery.com is loaded into any page. Say I go to https://secretsquirrel.com and they have been very careful to only load javascript from their own domain but now it can also load malicious javascript from https://code.jquery.com.

it also disable CSP. i'm not exactly sure how the extension works. maybe it is turned on/off on per tab basis and defaults to off which would be quite safe. but if it defaults to on then it can be kind of risky.
Somewhat interesting that this occurs weeks after the tariff increase on subsidized Chinese solar panels. I wonder how closely those two events are aligned beyond mere coincidence.
Thanks for the reply. Are you sure the URL is correct? Im getting a "page cannot be displayed"
el-get (apt-get for Emacs packages) is really an order of magnitude better than dealing with raw ELPA et al: https://github.com/dimitri/el-get
As grkvlt has said, this isn't a black or white issue. We're not either a) a democracy or b) not a democracy, we're obviously more democratic in some areas and less so in others.

I agree that having secret proceedings, etc., is a big problem. But there are cases where they're necessary, or at least many people think so. Like it or not, changing the way things work now means gaining some things (e.g. more freedom, more transparency) but potentially giving some things up (some measure of security).

Some people might be willing to give up different measures of freedom for different measures of security - others will have different numbers. That's why, in a democracy, we either convince people or compromise with them.
You can't teach people to do something less convenient than what they're already doing. Car keys are more convenient than never letting your car out of your sight outside of your own garage (which is what people were doing before car keys.)

PKI, as currently imagined, is less convenient than just speaking freely and feeling a nagging sensation that someone might be listening (which is what people are doing now.)
Targeted advertising for Amazon AWS users?
We're developing a new product for companies that use cloud service providers (www.cloudcorset.com).
We're just wondering about good platforms/companies that will help out on a targeted advertising campaign. Google adwords is not very suitable and LinkedIn does not seem to provide the right focus. Any thoughts?
This rings really true, and it's not just for artists or authors. I moved to Pittsburgh so I could take a year off and just work on free software. I had about $10k in savings and it lasted the whole year. You can get even cheaper rent if you're willing to live a bit outside the city.
No one buys mods, which is why they are hosted on terrible sharing services - it's the only way the developer can get any money.
4 font tools to spice up your website or app
Very interesting! One of my ideas for a venture is making coffee available for space travel. I can't imagine myself in a space ship with out my morning espresso.

TODOs: growing the plant in space ( radiation zero-g, etc), roasting, grinding and sadly, a zero-g cup ( unless this happens in a rotating habitacle with some g ).
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I found this to be really incredible. That is some amazing video stabilization technology. If this app was available for android I think I would use it for every video capture I ever do.
How are the K-12 public schools in Pittsburgh? Everyone seems interested to move somewhere and rent a one bedroom.
I suppose that the chilli pepper is there for restaurant menus which often use it as an indicator of spiciness.
If that were actually true they would be making them.

(And they do make them, they're commercial quality equipment and they're easy to find. Consumer's don't want to pay the big bucks for this stuff. Not even you, or you'd go find it.)
50 km/h is fast enough for this experiment if you ask me.
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Although not precisely related, I always say 'follow the money' to find out why you see certain political ads, or certain magazine articles, or anything like to figure out who is really in power. Find out who benefits from people believing certain things and it will be like magically being able to understand a language you don't currently speak.
The huge problem I see with this is going to be when people try to do this on shared hosting, which is the largest portion of WP sites, especially the sites not updating regularly.

Good luck explaining git setup, ssh keys, etc. to end users who aren't devs or sysadmins.
I hate to state the obvious but...is anyone going to want to use a product generated by NSA employees? Their crypto skills aside?
Thank you for the demonstration of "what NN really is".
That is certainly simpler.

I will say that our notifications come from a different service that is separate from the service the responds to HTTP requests, which leads to the process that is described in my post.
There's also fiber optic internet (verizon FIOS).
Pittsburgh has always been a great city to be "from" and only recently has become a good city to be "in".

My hometown (grew up in Hazelwood/Greenfield) is still a city very much in transition. If you stay in your designated neighborhoods like Oakland, Shadyside, Squirrel Hill, etc. you'll be blissful in your little bubble of it being a great town on the upswing. Get ten minutes out of town in almost any direction (sans the southern 376 corridor to the airport) and you'll feel like you are on a different planet.

Sometimes even taking the wrong street will have you wind up in areas that are dilapidated, poverty stricken, and villainous. The Consol Energy Center is a stone's throw from one of the historically worst neighborhoods in the country.

Knowing that, Pittsburgh has radically changed in a very short amount of time. Medical was always big there; but the dotcom boom incubated a wonderful technology center that surrounds Carnegie Mellon and the other fine schools in the area.

I wouldn't hesitate for a second moving back to Pittsburgh...just so long as I get to live in a place of my own choosing and not my old neighborhood :)
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Because the focus of the experiment is an app that records videos while compensating for tilt/rotation (it's not just "hold muh beer while I tape my iPhone to a car wheel!"). I have the app, and find it interesting for its ability to eliminate the inevitable angling of the video, despite being on such an unstable mount (my free-waving hand). By subjecting the app to extreme conditions of rapid rotation, subtle flaws in the compensation process are made apparent - specifically, that the iPhone's gravity sensor gets confused & skewed, that the progressive scanning of each frame means distorting the image (the top of the image shows a view 1/60th or so of a second different from the bottom), and the two together result in a bizarre/unexpected periodic warping of the image. Having this video, the experimenters can go back to the software lab and tweak their image processing algorithms to compensate for these errors and create an even more stable image.

"So what?" you mumble. "It's so subtle nobody cares."

Well, that's actually a big part of why VR failed when it was first introduced a couple decades ago, and why Carmack & Occulus are so successful with it now: they've analyzed the subtle nuances that you don't acknowledge but your brain processes & reacts to nonetheless. Horizon is applying the same attention to detail, and will produce a better product as a result (yes, I do notice those sub-frame distortions in various products almost daily, and would appreciate developers correcting them).
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I think they hope the API will be used to drive subscriptions to their service. If that ends up being the case, they'll probably keep it around. Of course, nobody can look into the future and see what will happen. Building a business around a public API like this would probably not be a smart move... yet.
I've been in Austin almost 4-1/2 years, and it's changed significantly in that time. Fewer hippies, more yuppies. It's common now to hear of cash offers on houses that are $10k above the asking price.
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Stay plugged in-- plan frequent live conversations with customers, investors, stakeholders. Even better if done face-to-face. Isolation is good for short-term bursts of productivity. In the long-term it will kill you.
I'd love to see them film something while doing this. Maybe a dog or person running next to the car in frame or something. Definitely cool stuff.
Sorry, http://cjremus.ghost.io ... thanks for taking a look!
And then we'll find out we are just trading central modes of failure for failure which can occur across networks due to specific channel attacks
closed beta?
We still have class mobility, to a degree. Not enough of a degree, which is my concern. My daughter, who is 20, is concerned that society is actually going backwards, and there's less opportunity for her generation than for previous generations.
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The NSA Now Owns Bitcoin
Pittsburgh is also an outstanding place to raise children.

Our first child was born in Brooklyn, second in New Jersey, but my wife and I are originally from the Pittsburgh area. Returned to Pittsburgh while our kids were still in pre-school.

The Carnegie Library system is outstanding. The Squirrel Hill and Oakland branches (most convenient locations to us) have large, comfortable children's sections. With their loan system, can request pretty much any book you can think of and pick up in a few days in the branch closest to you. My kids understand the system and use it to get books by authors they like.

Children's Museum, Phipp's Conservatory, and Carnegie museum are all great for kids. Generally, if you go more than once a yearly membership pays off, and a lot of these are connected (membership in one gives you admission to others).

A few years older now, we got season passes to Kennywood and Sandcastle. Kennywood has fantastic roller coasters, especially the older ones.

Schenley and Frick parks are immense. With the Pittsburgh topography, you can walk through trails and feel totally removed from the city.

In many neighborhoods, you can own suburb sized homes for cheaper than the suburbs, with access to all the city amenities.

My kids walk 3 blocks to school.

I could go on. Pittsburgh is a great place to raise a family.
It's funny because the previous name of qhavedate was qhavesex.

It's sad that the only thing that people can see from this project is the name.
While I agree with most of the article, in light of recent events (blanket surveillance, Heartbleed), an argument could very well be made in favour of using JS crypto -- not by itself, but in addition to TLS.

> The problem is, having established a secure channel with SSL, you no longer need Javascript cryptography; you have "real" cryptography.

Scenario 1: You run a note-storing service as described in the article. Your site is delivered through TLS, using one of the non-DHE ciphersuites. You used your CA's web interface to generate the certificate and private key, because it's simpler than generating your own CSR. An NSL with an attached gag order requires your CA to submit all generated RSA private keys to the NSA and shut up about it.

Without JavaScript crypto, the NSA is able to passively decrypt each connection and collect all of the notes' contents.

If you add JavaScript crypto (again, as described in the article), they need to either mount an active attack (which might get discovered) or find a flaw in the JS crypto (which is very much possible -- but adds work).

Scenario 2: You run any site with a login prompt. You are using OpenSSL.

Without JavaScript crypto: during a brief window of two years or so, attackers may be able to exploit Heartbleed and read unencrypted passwords that were submitted by users.

If you add JavaScript crypto, attackers may be able to exploit Heartbleed and read HMAC-digests of recently submitted user passwords. Other sensitive data might, of course, still be disclosed.
jquery is injected carefully by artoo so it does not break anything on the host page. However, CSP override is not default on artoo and you have to install the chrome extension to perform this. But this extension has solely to be activated when scraping and only developers should use them while knowing its effects.
I don't see that - Cameron recently pointed out that he's a christian, and said that Britain is a christian country. He's bringing religion forward.
Please, cite any gain that gives over TSL.

And if you plan to implement it over unencrypted connections, no, nobody will notice if the NSA does mass interception of those. There is no way to notice it.
This is one of the developers of the app. The Android version will be available in the following month. We are planning on running the experiment on Android devices too!
For the record, the example was a Chinese character, which qualifies as "normal" according to the rulebook you set up. It's in active use in Mandarin and Japanese, and I'd think recognizable to many others (e.g. Cantonese readers or Koreans and Vietnamese). And it'll certainly show just fine on the default installs of most systems on the market right now.

http://www.unicode.org/cgi-bin/GetUnihanData.pl?codepoint=7C...

You're just being petty or culturally arrogant at this point, TBH.
Unveiling scalable HTTP load balancing across cloud regions
The customer's network should take that responsibility and pay accordingly.

[ ] Whatever, normal traffic.

[ ] Let this traffic be throttled at will (downloading latest Linux distro)

[ ] I need low-latency or else throw it away (VoIP)

[ ] I'd like low latency, but still do packets in order (SSH session)

[ ] Please give me a channel of X quality for the next 2 hours, or don't provide it to me at all (Netflix)
Do watch it, Great Experiment. Got Sick..
"...or analysing transaction network propagation."

Haven't we already agreed this is meaningless?
Folks miss out on why major cultural centers attract people. In history it was because of the opportunities from ports and trade, today its still pretty much the same. Pittsburgh is not currently an airline hub for any airline. Meaning if you want to go anywhere other than Philadelphia you need a connection. Its also not adequately driveable or train distance from any city worth going to - Cleveland is your only neighbor, and getting to Philly from Pittsburgh is considerably more painful than Los Angeles to San Francisco (have done both runs routinely I would take the 5 through the central valley over the turnpike in winter anyday). Its also not a city that anyone passes through on a regular basis without making it the destination.

I can take a meeting with even international clients in NYC without ever leaving. They come here. If you're in art, yes you want to go where you can live cheap, but if you want to make a splash you need to be somewhere where there is sufficient disposable income and a big enough transient population to support viral awareness of your art. Pittsburgh doesn't have enough of those things. I think Pittsburgh is a wonderful city, filled with great parks, cheap beer and good folks. But I haven't visited there in years and there is a reason why