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Looks like they've improved support for shadows, too. I hope they've improved their svg importer to match.
I see a lot of comments showing Spritz, but this concept is completely new to me and this is my first time trying something like this.

I've spent the last hour or so using this bookmarklet to read various articles and I have to say this is really cool. While I love to read, it's usually in short bursts because I get distracted. With this I went through a couple longer articles without changing tabs, or coming back to them. This really helps with my ADD.

I'll likely Google later, but is anyone immediately aware if there have been studies on this style of reading for people with ADD?
Thanks for this. I've been telling people that D3 is not a charting library for over a year, but I get the feeling they don't really believe me!
so, what does the program do?
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Amazon isn't the only game in town, but I would argue that most computational power, like any means of production, is owned by Capital.
UK faces 'significant' shortage of farmland by 2030
Of course, since most consumer antennas can't reliably pick up these signals even right in the middle of a city like San Francisco, it's really the customers who are missing out on a service they can only otherwise get bundled with cable services that are costly and unwanted.
#1 is quite simply not true. Almost all US citizens I've spoken to feel strongly that we should respect others rights as we want ours to be respected.

http://scholarship.law.georgetown.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?ar...

Just because its a reason they give, doesn't make it valid - but I guess thats what your #2 was addressing =)
Why is the API accessible from the public internet if it's not a public API ?
And I think that's jlouis' point, that internal packages could and should have been implemented at the language level, not the tool level.
I think you could also ask the question in a different way.
What is the market for closed-source text editors? We have open-source text editors, and freeware(?) closed-source ones.
So who would buy a closed-source text editor?
(Talking about a text editor here, not an IDE)

So then why not just open-source it? Seems to me there are only drawbacks in keeping it closed.
Careful with the metrics.

On the one hand, we have required effort. On the other hand, we have impact. To take an extreme example, Web browsers are a tiny niche in terms of development effort. Their impact however is something else entirely.

This is what I predict with low-level stuff. It will grow in terms of impact, but shrink in terms of development effort (at least in relative terms).

> as machines change, the underlying libraries will keep changing.

Increasingly, no they won't. What will change will be the optimization technique that we will need to operate on otherwise clean, elegant, obvious, and slow code.

Take a C library for instance. If it is written in a portable fashion, you only need to write a new C back-end to port that library to another machine. The same goes for semi-manually optimized code. You don't need to change the specification (I mean, the source code) to port the thing to another platform. You only need to change the optimization strategy. It's still an effort, but that's much less effort than a complete rewrite.
Competition already exists. Almost every major enterprise software company minus Oracle. Microsoft does have Yammer, but IBM has Connections, Salesforce has Chatter, TIBCO has Tibbr. There is an independent, Jive. There are also upstarts like Slack.

Facebook would be entering a market that is already crowded. I'm not saying they couldn't make a big splash, only that it's not monopolized by Yammer.

If you give credence to IDC, IBM is actually the market share leader, with Jive in the second position and Microsoft in 3rd.
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This is happening with my comments as well. My earliest asterisked comment is 39 days ago, then my most recent upvotable comment is 43 days ago. This is on the third page.

I don't think this used to occur.
However, you seem to be totally missing the point made in the previous post, namely that people are, on the whole, pretty dumb.

The whole discussion revolves around a fundamental principal that is simply broken to begin with, akin to "How to try not to die when you eat rotting meat".

Don't eat rotting meat. Use a fridge. Etc.

In the case of passwords-

-Use a shared authentication platform
-or on sign-up implore that your users do not use a shared password. Education
-or offer, or force, a generated password

But instead we'll discuss the risk that shared passwords get lost, when they were in the wild the moment you used them on a second site.
Why don't you paste it in an online Brainfuck interpreter and find out? :-)
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>Utility had defeated tradition.

There is hope for humanity yet!
I really like that it works fine on my mobile too.

Have you done tests on many platforms to show which ones are supported?

I'd probably like it to be more automatic... a single clickable progress bar without the need for the 2 text fields or generate button.

But yeah... this is ace.
> Imagine it's 1940 or 1950 and someone starts asking "Who is going to own the computers?"

An iPhone is a good example of a computer. Did you see this paragraph:

"I paid for my iPhone in full, but Apple owns the software that runs on it, the patents on the hardware inside it, and the exclusive right to the marketplace of applications for it. If I want to participate in their marketplace, Apple can arbitrarily reject my application, extract whatever cut of my sales they see fit, and change the terms whenever they like."
5-4 decisions tend to be the ones that make news. For the most part, the judges on the court agree with each other. In the the current term through June 18, 2014, only 14% of Supreme Court cases were settled in a 5-4 vote.

http://sblog.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/SB_...
Live with no audio.
Isn't that the point of advertisements for OTA broadcasts?
How do we reconcile this "Officers may examine the phone’s physical aspects to ensure that it will not be used as a weap
on, but the data on the phone can endanger no one." along with the notion that encryption algorithms are considered munitions worthy of export restrictions?
The supreme court is the ultimate court of appeals in the United States - once you lose there, your only remedy is to change the law, or in some cases, change the constitution.

Since the supreme court interprets the law, the way you to change the ruling is to change the law. In a few recent cases, the supreme court has basically said (paraphrasing) "we don't like this ruling, but this is what the law says. If you want to fix it, talk to Congress, not us."

There have been some very notable instances where the Supreme Court has changed its mind or modified its prior rulings (for instance around civil rights), so while its the end of the road for this petitioner, it doesn't bar the law evolving in the future.
I'd guess because Stross tends to be a very pragmatic / utilitarian sci-fi writer.

We suspect its going to be a thing, but nobody really knows what the death of human employment will mean, or if it will really happen. If it does, its probably much more of a black swan than "the internet of things", but as he noted with cars, sometimes things you discount end up revolutionizing the world, and stuff you thought was a killer, because of short range performance, ends up bland in the long run. Its kind of like stocks, everybody wants to buy FB or Google after they change the world, but its a whole nother story to figure that out beforehand.

You can guess that the death of employment for pay will be a huge event, but to say much more you have to start committing toward one of many possible paths beyond your event horizon. Maybe a revolution as robots steal our jobs, maybe boring and mostly like today, maybe endless freedom to create, or kind of pointless (cause we're all VR slaves or some other such thing)). The slope's there, but we can't see over the hill.

Aside: I dig that the later half reads like a love letter for one of my favourite, and one of the more durable languages out there. Almost 30 years and Perl's still quietly chuggin along.
Some people need crack too, but we can decide to make it illegal to provide that service if we as a society don't think that meeting it is a good idea.
Umm, why not? I use IE 11 in day-to-day usage and as my primary dev target. Chrome is god awful on my machine (it sucks on high DPI displays, has terrible touch support, worse/slower UI responsiveness and animations due to single UI thread, etc). I only use it for compat testing.

Also nice that IE doesn't still require prefixes for established things like transition/transform. If only Chrome and others would get around to implementing other useful CSS3 features that IE has (like grid) we might be able to actually use them some day.
Facebook apps as in apps that are physically on Facebook. Just use a throwaway email for facebook so they can't link your emails when they buy other companies whose apps you use.
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I'm excited to know this exists. I've been watching the Serval Mesh project for awhile. https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.servalproj...

But it requires rooting your phone. This is very cool, and I hope it becomes ubiquitous, as a method of circumventing the grid, either because it's compromised or it's down, or it's just not present to begin with, is huge.
Seconding this. I'm using plugins to have a pseudo-dark theme (a lot of the UI is standard but a lot of the editing surfaces are dark), so I was excited to give dark theme a try.

Black text on a dark background, the disclosure triangles in option panels are black against dark gray.
Because that depends on the kernel version, I took the more reliable approach of using 'swapoff -a' (or in fact not defining any swap in my /etc/fstab).
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940387
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7940136
Does it even need to stream from the house (versus uploaded earlier than requested on my device) ?

Am I as a consumer allowed to store my DVR material on hosted storage then have that stream to me later?

Then can my cloud provider cache and de-dupe content on their environment so that they don't need to have 4 copies of the same episode in cache?

I wonder, can a new company sell set top antennas that perform better than others, because they aggregate signals and can enhance the quality of your dvr material?
Keep in mind that I said it's not excessively complicated or an extreme hassle. It was just less straight forward for me than using ST2 to get an immediate dev environment going with the haskell tools/integration I wanted (hlint, repl, error/type checking/hints, etc).
Hm... not so sure why this fact allows them to trample the Constitution or the Bill of Rights.
Congrats to Shereef, Dave and now Tanner in NYC!

I am the co-founder of a similar program, Launch Academy (http://www.launchacademy.com) in Boston. We're a more intimate program than Dev Bootcamp but share some of their early core principals towards educational diversification.

I first met Shereef Bishay in early 2012 after he wisely took an MVP approach to what is now known as Dev Bootcamp via his cousin and a small group of other aspiring developers based on a 'bet' that he couldn't teach them to code in 10-weeks. Not only did Shereef prove that small group wrong (winning the bet) but he's gone on to pioneer an industry that has benefited thousands of people to change their lives for the better through immersive education in software development.

These programs are not for everyone however. Are you ready for a bootcamp? I've written a bit about this here http://qr.ae/sVVQs
Anyone got a screenshot of the dark theme?

edit:
never mind I saw the youtube video. Looks cool.
Now certainly, but not when Wonga started.
"physical aspects"
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Generate words that sound like Game of Thrones characters. Good for project names and stray cats.
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Have you thought of the possibility of increasing the difficulty after each subsequent request from the same IP address?
I really like the idea, but... I'm not sure it's possible to achieve right kind of cost balance here. Some assumptions at first: every device has to use the same work scaling factor (because you can always pretend you're running something slower), any cloud server runs at least 10x faster computations than a low-end mobile phone where this captcha has to also work.

That means that even if you scale the work to take at most 10 seconds on the client machine, you'll be able to crack 1/s on a $5/mo on digitalocean. That's ~2.6M answers a month. That's $0.002 per 1000 captchas, instead of $0.70 mentioned on the website and as a bonus it removes the part where you rely on people who could mistype things.

I really want it to work, but does the economic balance actually work here against the spammers or for them?
I guess they already tried 'enclosure' 300 years ago. What next? Do what Holland does, and reclaim the sea?
Yes, it's very strong legally. Congress or the states can try for a Constitutional Amendment (but those are few and far between, last one was in 1992), or the Supreme Court can later reverse itself partially or in full. An example of that would be Plessy v Ferguson in 1896, where the Supreme Court ruled segregation laws were constitutional, but later in the 50's (Brown v. Board of Education) they reversed it.
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Pixelmator is brilliant. http://www.pixelmator.com
I'm not defending no-knock raids, over-utilization of SWAT teams, flash grenades, police militarization, shooting dogs, the drug war, etc.

All I'm saying is that spoofing a call to the cops that says "I just killed my family, and am about to shoot any cop that shows up" is dangerous as hell no matter what the police are armed with. Cops are going to show up, they're going to fear for their lives, and they're going to treat the victim as a violent threat.
As can Cassandra. It depends on how much data is still in the page cache. I do agree both systems can be configured for immediate durability. However, we went with the default values as most people (and most databases) do not sync on every write. It is too much of a performance cost.
Yep.. installed Dragonfly last week on my home server, the concept of virtual kernels and Hammerfs was the selling point for me, +1 for you sir.
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you're correct. I'll try to find the source later, but this was exactly the case. Police would install the tracker or whatever, then tell the judge it came from a confidential source (the legal definition of which is a person). Meaning that police were outright lying to judges.

edit: source -- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7931548
Appealing to congress to change the law in question is the only recourse to the losing party.

What exactly do you mean by a “mistaken” ruling?
I actually dislike it for the reasons you stated. I don't see this negatively impacting a botnet at all while still annoying regular users with the delay.

Also, even if they are paying for it, the "proof of work" is probably less expensive as captcha breaking.

What I'd really like to see is a more sites that do analysis to block bots, rather than annoying users. Spammers generally need to place a link and do so quickly. It seems much easier to target people who post links in their first 5-10 posts than to do anything else.
Toronto startup's booking app attracts barbershops from around the world
I created jQuery plugin with that kind of widget, but really, any type of widget can be built on top of it. What jquery plugin does - used API library to communicate anyway, so if people will want different type of widgets - they will come.

As for support on different platforms - Safari is tricky one right now. Trying to figure out why it is not working. IE before version 10 will not work, because it uses typed arrays in javascript. Other than that it should work in any modern browser in theory.
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The advertisers already paid for content to be distributed. The broadcasters aren't even missing out on theoretical revenue cause no subscriber pays for over the air tv. If anything they could increase ad revenue claiming more viewers.

I'm missing something... Cause I don't see why broadcasters are against Aero at all. Is it cause cable companies pay broadcasters for content and people think Areo will cut into that?
Did it? The majority opinion was joined by 2 of the 5 conservative justices and all of the liberal justices. Three conservative justices dissented based on their reading of the law, which didn't seem particularly ideological.
Thanks, I've added that to the FAQ. :)
While it is pretty interesting for quick reading of small snippets of text it begins to fail when trying to build up a comprehension map of a large body of information. Especially if that information is of a highly technical nature. The lack of comprehension is compounded; the more unfamiliar you are with the concepts at hand.

One of the things that we do without thinking about it is make associations between things we know and things we don't know when reading. This allows us to provide a framework for the words and phrases we don't understand using the ones that we do, thus pulling the meaning out of the context. Spritz and by extension Squirt does not allow you to create these links because you don't retain the full breadth of the context for each word as you are reading them, and with no built in method for jumping back or forth through the information being presented it fails to allow these bridges to be built, and this lowers comprehension.

Now take something like this and implement an interface that tracks the users eye movement via a webcam to allow the flow of words to jump backwards and forwards through the surrounding information might work. But you would have to do some pretty impressive eye tracking and do it all with as little delay as possible to make the flow smooth, no matter what direction it goes. That said jumping back in the information would probably be jarring if the text just starts to flow in reverse. So one would probably have to jump back with some kind of visual cue to a pointer further back in the text and then continue reading forward again.

Also I'd love to see this implemented where it shows a sentence at a time. I'd be interested in the overall improvements to retention and understanding that would be gained with a reduction in potential top speed per word read. How drastically does speed fall off when you do this?
Not an attorney, of course. Those two things don't tie together I think. Encryption can't make a phone explode, so it's not a munition.
For web dev beginners, I haven't yet seen a better ramp-up tutorial than Scott Murray's "Interactive Data Visualization", which is free online: http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/

He really emphasizes the low-level at which D3 operates, as you move from creating shapes with divs and CSS, to eventually learning the D3 framework. Here's his section on "What [D3] Doesn't Do": http://chimera.labs.oreilly.com/books/1230000000345/ch02.htm...
Same here. First time in many years that I don't say to myself "bullshit" while looking at a purported solution to the captcha problem. The solution is at once obvious and very clever. What is the most unexpected is that it doesn't tell humans and robots apart at all. The CAPTCHA word may have blinded us to more general / obvious ideas.
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Ask HN: PHP Freelancers.
Are there any PHP or wordpress freelancers out there or developers? I would like some advice.

Is the job market lucrative for a PHP coder? or Wordpress developer? is the pay worth it? I'm getting into PHP and would like some advice on it please and thank you.
>Looks cool.

If you say so...
http://imgur.com/HAKnRwU
Yeah, there may have been some limited de-regulation here and there, but we are no where near an actual free-market situation. For somebody to come along and decry de-regulation as the problem, in this environment, is absolutely absurd.
Cops must have a warrant to search cell phones, rules Supreme Court
At least it is not fixed cost/complexity. If you see large number of attacks/spam, you response by increasing complexity (and cpu cycles required to solve it)

And you remove CAPTCHA :)
"Our experience with Swift has been very positive so far - congratulations to Chris Lattner and his entire development team for this great work! "

Oh really? I mean, kudos to Chris...but the Swift compiler needs a ton of work. Filed about 10 radars to Apple last weekend while playing with a toy project.
Unfortunately, there is no open source implementation of the VIP number generator. On the other hand, Google Authenticator is based on TOTP, and has several open source implementations. I don't want to run a separate, proprietary 2FA app for every single service, when they can all just use the standard set out in IETF rfc6238.
It's generally not useful to quote flowery language like this, because it's not legally operative. It might justify a particular application of the law, but it isn't the law. It is what lawyers call "dicta."

NSA wiretaps differ in two key ways:

1) At least in theory, they are intended to capture foreign communications. People not on U.S. soil who are not U.S. citizens enjoy no protections under our Constitution.

2) This case is based on interpreting the "search incident to arrest" exception to the 4th amendment's warrant requirement. The essence of the exception is that while a warrantless search of someone's person is potentially the most egregious of fourth amendment violations ("person" being specifically enumerated in the text of the 4th amendment), it is nonetheless reasonable in the context of a search incident to arrest,[1] where it might be necessary in order to secure the arrestee, who might have a gun or throw away evidence.

An undersea cable is totally different. It is not a search of anybody's "person" but a search of something containing signals that people are transmitting out into the world. There are four specific things enumerated in the 4th amendment: someone's house, person, papers, and effects. It is clear how searching a phone in someone's pocket is a search both of their person and their effects. But signals transmitted out into the world does not fit neatly into any of those four categories. For example if those signals were transmitted via radio versus fiber optic cable, would it be a "search" to listen in on them?

Now, the language of the case is relevant in that it suggests the Court may be open to a more expansive reading of the 4th amendment when it comes to digital data. There is no way the conservatives on the court would favor extraterritorial application of the Constitution with regards to undersea wiretaps, but it could bode well for challenges to domestic surveillance.

[1] Incidentally, as the opinion notes, the touchstone of the 4th amendment is "reasonableness." This fuzzy word is used explicitly in the Constitution to allow judges to engage in line drawing and balancing the interests of law enforcement with privacy rights.
With the recognition that the export restrictions are based on potential military application by a nation-state adversary which may require time and other hardware and software to realize and that the permission to search for weapons incident to arrest centers around immediate physical danger to the arresting officer and others from the item itself, so the two things are not concerned with even remotely the same considerations.
No; if you don't appreciate something because you suspect you don't understand or lack context (as you expressed), you should just keep your mouth shut lest you sound like an idiot.
You get bonus points if you find a 32-bit Windows machine and use DEBUG to load in the interpreter. It's like a modern day copy of BYTE.