skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
With Foursquare I used to make pretty interesting friends by friending people at the same venue. I had a lot of fun following and meeting and commenting with a fashion teacher who bounces between NYC and Korea, a NJ man stuck going to the hospital regularly, etc.. With Swarm that has been completely removed and you only see people you know and only half the people I knew even transferred over to the new app. I don't even know what Foursquare is for any more, an attempted Yelp clone, I guess, but I just use Yelp for that instead because it is better.
More women to men ratio that expected ;-)
Huh. I'm thinking, the law actually could be pretty specific about who pushed the shutter button. IT wasn't the man.

Laws aren't generally written in some context-agnostic way, like a philosophy class works out after a bull session. Its lawyers writing about what's at issue at the time.
Related advisories:

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/qs_dos_extended_event_loo...

https://nodesecurity.io/advisories/qs_dos_memory_exhaustion
Who trusts political figures? Repeated polling shows that most people don't, even if they vote.

Maybe you're down on voting because you think it's supposed to solve all the problems. So since it doesn't, it must be broken. The truth is that voting is just a very small part of trying to make the world look more like you think it should.

It's like developing a software application. No one would expect that buying a computer would take care of everything. But you can't start until you have a computer. And while the computer isn't everything, some are still going to be better for what you want than others.
I mean, if you care more about not arguing with your relatives than you do that the CIA abducted and tortured people, then you have little incentive to engage with the wider political process.

Of course, most people think that the US government abducting foreign nationals and torturing them at black sites is a considerably bigger problem than their mother-in-law being grumpy at them for a couple days, and want to do something about it.
(Disclaimer: I'm developing my own RV64 FPGA implementation.)

I wish the page was a little more clear on what the intentions are, etc, but seeing RV64 in silicon would be immensely exciting. Producing a simple in-order machine, even with usual set of peripherals isn't very hard at all and nor that expensive on an older process node, but there's a world of difference if we start talking superscalar out-of-order multi-core SMP. Seeing OpenRISC on the Advisory Board I suspect it's more the former than the latter.
Why hasn't someone built this before?

Maybe I'm missing something. I figured you could do this already using a few mashable API's.
Beamforming would be cool and might actually allow this to work, although I don't know with what efficiency.

That said, the tech just to locate the phones in space to allow the beamforming would be a significant accomplishment itself. But forming the beam or multiple beams to charge multiple devices is probably quite feasible.
The ring is a symbol of commitment (sunk a month's pay into it) from a person whom you have already done a pretty good screening on. Its not the only criterion; disingenuous.
While I understand that it's done with good intentions, I don't think that the presence of a Bounce House and T-Shirt Cannon at the hackathon helps dispel the perception that Silicon Valley hackers simply behave like teenagers all the time.
How does it work? Is it legally binding? How do teams work/organize themselves?

I see very few projects fill any information or what/who they need.
I once worked at a place where the dress code mandated that all employees wear clothing bearing the company logo every day. This, of course, was widely reviled by anyone that did any actual work. The software developers analyzed a loophole and published the exploit to the local branch office. From then on, people wore whatever they liked, and just kept a logo-embroidered fleece jacket draped over their work chairs. A few bolder individuals purchased a company-logo lab coat and wore it around the office.

The branch manager never reported any violation of the dress code--because technically there were no violations--but did take care to inform everyone ahead of time whenever employees from headquarters were scheduled to visit.

At another job, the dress code was to wear clothing when customers were in the office.

The actual median daily apparel worn in those two different offices were virtually identical. The latter simply showed greater variance in styles of dress.

If I had to maintain an entire closet filled with garments that I would never want to wear anywhere outside of work, that would severely irritate me, to the extent that I would almost certainly become well acquainted with a pearl wholesaler, despite the apparent physical impossibilities involved.

But it is a perfect indicator that management is willing to impose arbitrary, capricious, top-down working requirements on employees, without respect to consequences, intended or otherwise.

So not only do I endorse the prejudicial maxim to not do business with suits, I extend it to teams whose dress appears suspiciously homogenous, uniform-like, or logo-emblazoned. I want to deal with people, not mooks, peons, toadies, or serfs. If I see one person on a team in a t-shirt, and another in a pinstriped dress shirt with polka-dotted bow tie, I can be reasonably certain that no one told either of those two what to wear. Especially their mothers.
The CIA didn't REALLY hack Senate computers
I believe as the robotics industry grows, an appropriate support network will need to grow with it to handle the inevitable growing pains. For instance, I believe a "robotics mechanic" will be a job of the future, analogous to an automotive mechanic. Today there are experts/specialists in different automotive systems like transmissions, electrical, etc. Likewise, robots will need specialists in perception, locomotion, cognition, etc.

But robots of the future will not be designed to do one thing, as cars are (press throttle, move forward). They will be complex, autonomous decision-making machines, something the world really has never dealt with. I imagine the support infrastructure needed to deal with such machines would more closely resemble the healthcare industry than the automotive industry.

For example, you would have your highly trained specialists as I mentioned, but also generalists skilled at diagnosing and repairing common issues, and of course support staff needed to assist them in their jobs. Thus you have tiers of skill so that if a robot displaces a housekeeper(for instance) he doesn't have to get a PhD in order to find a new job in the robotics industry that made him obsolete.
No one seems to have mentioned this yet, but as of the end of June, Andrew lost the world record to Blubbler http://smb-leaderboards.wikia.com/wiki/SMB_Leaderboards_Wiki Also, sometime earlier this year, andrewg decided to retire from speedrunning and get his life back on track, but it looks like since his world record was beat, he is back at making attempts to get the world record http://www.twitch.tv/andrewg1990
Gathering Meaningful Feedback in iOS Apps
For the curious, here is a magnet link of the leaked dump (38.7gb)

magnet:?xt=urn:btih:4e8564f0edcb3875ad2dbb9658ca3d615cc6c152&dn=finfisher&tr=http://bt.careland.com.cn:6969/announce&tr=udp://tracker.coppersurfer.tk:6969/announce&tr=udp://tracker.openbittorrent.com/announce
Why Is Skype Forcing A Software Upgrade On All Of Us?
> > If you don't like the options, it's worth asking what you, as a citizen, have done to improve them.

> I can revert that and ask you, what have you done, as a citizen, that you've made the choices so awful for everyone else?

I picked people who would act in my interest, and since you didn't participate, they only care about my interests, not yours. Why should I care about your interests, when you can't be bothered to represent them as part of the process?

Edit: Your comments seem to not really reflect the scale and complexity with which the system you're talking about operates.
Yes in a future release I do plan to do so.
I think Google is sending sites notice for all removed links, so the list linked from the article [1] should be complete for Wikimedia. Of course, that doesn't apply to the entire rest of the web..

[1] https://wikimediafoundation.org/wiki/Notices_received_from_s...
Thanks for the pointer! As an academic research project, we try to collect as many of these as possible.
Does this imply a designed back-door?
compulsory licensing of critical patents with non-cooperative license holders is in the law.
A great popularizer of psychedelics - a real-life Walter White. To his credit, he doesn't shy away from the fact that some people never return from their trip. That happened to my cousin.
I am waiting until 3.0 when they roll out their plan for ABI compatibility (it currently masquerades as jpeg62 but is not compatible), and decide on a defacto way to detect if you are building against vanilla libjpeg(-turbo) or mozjpeg (currently you can check for some of their struct members, but they have not stated if they will be going away or not when ABI compatibility is addressed).

At that point I plan to submit a patch to ImageMagick to detect it and enable the user options if mozjpeg is being used. I believe downstream support in libraries like ImageMagick is key to adoption, rather than adding makeup to a pig (input support for N formats in cjpeg).
Those two reasons are enough to me. The web is supposed to be for everyone. A small restaurant that just has directions and a menu on their website shouldn't have to deal with the headache of setting up HTTPS.
What is the hard part then? You're kidding yourself if you think it's software.
This is something I've looked at. When outlets with built in USB charging ports came out I thought, "Gee it would be much nicer if they used some form of powerline networking to tell the house server how much power they are supplying."
External requests might have motivated the initial foray into supporting agile processes, but it's internal users that make it worth a damn, IMO.

My view is that you can't develop effective general purpose application software without an internal customer, because until you have that internal customer, you can't meaningfully dogfood it, and you can't get the feedback loop tight enough.

Take, for example, WPF. WPF addressed a real need, I think; developers wanted a decent GUI stack (which Win32/WinForms/MFC/whatever just ain't), and long term, Microsoft wanted something amenable to 3D acceleration and DPI increases. Great.

Except that for the longest time, WPF was deeply problematic for any major application. Problems around text handling and performance were the biggies. Microsoft had no real internal customer for WPF. Some of the Blend apps used it, but they (now discontinued) were never a critical part of Microsoft's day-to-day operation.

When did WPF get good? When an important application (Visual Studio 2010) started using it, and made clear that hey, something needs to be done about that text rendering and performance.

I think there are quite a few little corners of Microsoft's software in a similar boat. The new-to-Vista sound card/audio APIs were plainly not fit for purpose in their original form, but nobody in Microsoft noticed, because nobody in Microsoft was actually using them. Late in the development cycle the APIs were updated (adding notifications when a buffer was nearly empty) to make them usable, but it created a troublesome driver situation for a year or more post-release.

With the internal customer, the feedback becomes much more immediate. Microsoft's customers don't get to see every 3 week cycle. Internal customers do.

When the developers are using the very product they're developing, this becomes better still; there's an implicit understanding of what the thing should do, and how it needs to be better. This becomes institutional knowledge, and it likely never even manifests as an explicit request. It doesn't have to. The implicit understanding of how customers are using the software and not just what they want but _why_ they want it is sufficient to ensure proper and effective implementation of their requests.
Use a VPN. All eyes will be on this.
When did this era start? This probe was launched 10 years go, and the planning must have started at least a few years before that.
One voter has little effect. Many voters together can have a big effect. But not if each one of them, individually, decides not to bother.
Well that's the transition period still. Either you own your share of means of production that sustains you or you don't and you starve to death because there is literally nothing you can do.

I enjoy a good distopian novel as the next man, but it would take a really unlikely set of circumstances so that technology has improved enough to enslave the population durably, yet not enough so that this enslaved population still has some use and, added to that, a ruling class or at least a culture motivated enough to maintain that kind of status quo.
Exactly! The transition was also handled poorly. How annoying was it to have an unfamiliar Swarm pop-up anytime you wanted to check-in on Foursquare? How annoying is it that all your badges are gone? These new stickers seem cool, how do I earn them?

I mean, I love the new spontaneous event planning feature, sure. But really, all Swarm did was add a tab and some stickers. I honestly feel as if a simple redesign including those two features would have sufficed. Instead, they made a huge gamble based on data and didn't really think about how the current users would adapt.
Automatic triggers are still set by human beings, and the framing is still done by a human. Neither is the case in this situation. The monkey can't release the copyright if it does not have copyright (which it doesn't in the US since it's not a human, see prev. comment), so it is in the public domain.
I'll just wait for the buzzfeed version.
But who defines the self-interest of the majority of the membership? Tea Party proponents and opponents, when taken as groups, seem to have very different visions of what constitutes the self-interest of Tea Party members.
Subway's secret recipes revealed in video by disgruntled franchisee owner
Ruining the web in order to prevent any possibility of bad things happening is something I'm firmly against. I have several small blogs and websites that I absolutely would not bother with if I had to pay for and set up https on each.
I agree, and as stated in my other comment, I believe it needs downstream support to be adopted properly.

To that end I plan to add support to ImageMagick, and perhaps write a PS plugin.
It differs from an automatic trigger in that the photographer is still the one exercising the decision to take a photograph. In the case under consideration, the monkeys stole the camera while the photographer was distracted.

(Perhaps it's also worth noting that the monkeys weren't "taking selfies" per se; they were simply fiddling with the camera and noticed that pressing a button made a sound.)

It's really a fascinating corner case. On the one hand, I agree that the photo almost has to be considered to be in the public domain. On the other hand, the photographer did exercise effort and choice in retrieving his camera, finding the one (hilariously adorable) image in the several that the monkeys inadvertently took, and making it available as a photograph. (Not to mention cropping and rotating the raw photo to properly frame the monkey. But one could ignore that by focusing on the original image, which isn't shown in the article but is floating around the web.)

I suspect that if this exact situation had happened forty years, back when photos still had to be chemically developed, nobody would think for a second that the photographer didn't have full copyright ownership. He may not have exercised intent, but without his efforts there would be no photograph. It's only now, when the process of turning a camera's image into a viewable artifact has become relatively transparent, that it becomes less clear what the human photographer has contributed.
Top 25 Critical Path Website Requirements – An Uber.la Quickie
There are some nice, very efficient implementations of their solution #4at http://hdrhistogram.github.io/HdrHistogram/
> You don't have to care about MITM to benefit from opportunistic encryption.

How? An encrypted connection subject to MITM is as secure as an non-encrypted one. Attackers will stop listening for plaintext credentials at WiFi spots and will just launch their favorite HTTPS MITM tool instead.

Certificate pinning is flawed because you cannot revoke certificates from your clients. How would you distinguish a MITM attack from a certificate change? And if you can't revoke certificates, what happens after an attacker gains access to the private keys? Definitely flawed model.

HTTPS without identity verification is even worse than HTTP. IMHO a false sense of security is more dangerous than no security. Self-signed certificates must not be advertised as secure by browsers (the famous lock icon) because they are not! This would render them invisible for most users.

Self-signed certificates are only viable for tech-savvy users, and even then the dangers are too many and the burden too heavy (did the server change certs, or am I being subject to a MITM attack?) for them to be useful.
after the 90s.
Gandi is hiring French speakers in San Francisco
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So, for CSS and such nothing like Bootstrap, or Foundation, etc.?
The average age is probably closer to ~21 and who doesn't like a Bounce house, throw in a few clowns an animals and call it YC carnival.
I've stopped using 4sq when they forced to check in through Swarm.
Swarm was constantly monitoring me and eating the battery. At least in Foursquare app you could turn of the 'Radar'.

Good bye 4sq.
Coincidentally, I just posted my review of this course here: http://coursemania.com/google-adwords-a-step-by-step-guide-f...
Not sure I understand - so Clojure is getting first class support for lazy collections and curried combinators? Or am I missing the important part?
I'm using Foursquare mainly to make new friends and find interesting people/places. They just made that more difficult. Would have loved if they increased the friends number limit, and made it easier to communicate with other members.

Won't remove my account but will stop using it. I wonder how their performance will move in the next few weeks. It'll be devastating if their user-base is using it for the same reason (as me) and just stop checkin-ing.
It would be a great question to ask. But then you shy away from actually asking or doing anything about it.
When I had a nexus 4 I used the QI charging all the time. It's not really a must have feature but it certainly is nice to you be able to throw my phone down with out having to plug in wires.
I recall seeing a data presentation on 4square a few months ago, and the numbers suggested that check-ins were tapering. They definitely realized that all their corporate value was in the data.

Perhaps they are trying to avoid the split issues from Netflix? I think they needed to give the Foursquare name to the Yelp-killer so that people would know about it. The space is too crowded to start from scratch. And Yelp is ready to be killed.
You can turn off the tracking in Swarm as well.
Techdirt did a good bit of analysis back when the camera owner was issuing takedowns and concluded that it's almost certainly public domain under US, UK, and international law - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110713/11244515079/can-w...

With an aside that if it's not public domain, the Indonesian government is actually the most likely copyright holder
Great! I'll check it out.
Can I retrieve my videos?
Unfortunately, videos on Justin.tv are no longer accessible for download. Video archiving and VODs were removed on June 15, 2014.

Were people given advance notice on this?
Agreed. I do my own invoicing which breaks out sales tax but I use the checkout receipt which doesn't. It would be nice to be able to pull that information into the receipt.
> Why can't we have a system where we argue things out and have some heuristics for finding out what the best decision is for a given group of people?

We do this.

We just haven't resolved two fundamental problems:

1. The heuristics are not faithfully stated nor evaluated. This actually has upsides and downsides, as it allows them to be unexpectedly flexible and comprehensive at the cost of some corruption and unpredictability. This may just be a fundamental trade-off of such metrics. The heuristics are just currently embodied in little sacks of meat with some extra processes happening, because of stand-alone computers being a relatively new thing. (I'm actually not sure how much better with regards to lack of corruption and transparency we could make the heuristics than "just pick a guy to choose", because of limits in decidability and other related computer science/math.)

2. We don't know any way to define 'best outcome' besides ask everyone what they think, and resolve conflicts with some kind of strategy like "go with what the most people think is the right answer".

So I really don't understand your position: it's essentially that you don't see value in participating in which heuristics are chosen, and think that people should pay more attention to your wants and desires, even if you don't advocate for them with the same strength as other people.

Honestly, your position mostly sounds poorly thought out and entitled.
how do my in-laws being grumpy help foreign nationals tortured by the CIA?

how has that made the world a better place? other than now I feel vaguely superior to my in-laws "who just don't get it"
What? Did you really say fill your firwire and usb ports with super glue?