skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
that would be one respectful way to do it, and yes, challenging.

but the premise of your comment is that of course my device's SSID and related location should be collected in someone else's database because a google-funded nonprofit wrote an app for people to go wardriving with.

just because SSIDs can be legally observed and collected doesn't mean i have to be happy about it. I wasn't talking about this as a technical problem as much as an ethical/political one for an organization that claims to be committed to my privacy...except when it's not.
The exploit mechanism is a bit dodgy in TFA, so I wrote a proof of concept exploit using python for testing systems[1].

[1] - http://lab.dreamcats.org/ftp_exp.py
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Or security updates.
No, not "eavesdropping." The fingerprint is only a fingerprint and only of the public key. It doesn't give new secrets away. Nobody can use it to read any mails of somebody else.
>Android doesn't have that

Android has Nexus and Google Play Edition phones.
I haven't tried it to be honest, as I have so little knowledge about that market.

But as David Janner says in the article linked to below, he did't get a lot of result from it. But if anybody knows any good translators to south korean, I'd be happy to include it in the article.

http://makeappmag.com/iphone-app-localization-keywords/
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Yes, actually. Hanlon's Razor.
Things are not that complicated today,really.It's just that there isnt only one way to do things.

> I have to think that at some point people think that there has to be a better way to deliver a network transparent, portable UI without worrying about strange things like a Shadow DOM, the hack that is CSS, and all of the other weird shit web developers have to put up with to create something that mimics (usually poorly) a desktop app

It already exists : GWT,or you can use something like C++ and the emscripten toolchain,and whatever C++ gui framework. So if you dislike all the js/html/css you can definetly avoid it.And users dont care,provided it runs in their browser without plugin.

Most webdevs wont use these because they already know javascript and there are good frameworks out there.

And at the end of the day it is still a webpage,it's not a desktop app.
Maybe you should let the guys that write postmortems in GDC, Gamasutra and Making Games Magazine how HTML5 still cannot beat Flash know about it.
Was anything about cromwellian's statement inaccurate, such that it should have been downvoted? I'm pretty sure I understand everything being discussed here but I don't understand THAT.
I with there was a word stronger than love for what I feel about archive.org. It's one of the amazing promises of the Internet come true.

If I have one criticism of archive.org it's that things are impossible to find, even if you know they have them - this redesign doesn't solve this problem.

I think the principle problem is that what should be a meta-layer on the organization, the provenance of a collection of stuff, is often used just as often as an organizational scheme as media and subject type.

And example. I'm looking to see if they have "A calendar of dinners, with 615 recipes" by Marion Harris Neil. Where would you suppose this book would be?

If I go to "eBooks and Texts" I'm simply met with a wall of collections, none of which are subject area organized, is it under Microfilm, or Canadian Libraries? Boston Library Consortium? Who knows? I'll never find it by browsing and the way books are collected is pretty much useless. Unless I know there's a copy under "Canadian Libraries" I'll probably not find it.

Sure I can search for it, "A calendar of dinners" gives me 3 results! Turns out it's buried under the following Archives:

"Toronto Public Library", "The Library of Congress", "Cornell University Library". Notice that none of these are the crumbtrail I used to find it the first time on accident (Canadian Libraries)!

How about Omni Magazine? Is it a "Text"? I'm not sure, even today. I do know if I go to texts and search all texts for "Omni" I get it back. But it's part of "The Magazine Rack" and "Additional Collections" which I still have not figured out how to just navigate to.

These are just texts, video, audio and other media types are similarly hard to navigate and find stuff. There's little pleasure in browsing archive because if you find something, it'll be by accident, not because you navigated to some pocket of cool stuff.

Good luck seeing what SF books they have and browsing it. That's actually a collection I'd care about.

I also like old radio shows, and those are scatter shot all over the site. Unless somebody basically just uploaded an entire series at once, good luck piecing it together.

Right now, about the only way I know something is on archive.org is because the person who uploaded the item mentions it on a podcast or something.

I'm almost tempted to just start a meta-website of some sort to start organizing stuff I care about to that other people like me can find it.

It's kind of a mess, and it's given me a lot more respect for what librarians have largely solved in the physical world.
Actually WebGL achieves a higher fan rotation than Flash!
I didn't know how to deploy elixir application to linux server.
So it's very helpful for me.
Thanks!
Why is web-based software the smart choice?
Sceptical towards the quality of so cheap translation services, but i it all comes down to budget. I guess it is possible to do some QA before launching.
I would have liked this article more if they had left out the word "All" in the title
Yep, that's what I do. I even have an Android X86 running in VirtualBox in my Linux box - and several apps installed. No problem with keyboard and mouse, emulated full HD display, audio... even Google voice recognition works!

Of course I use it mostly to play around and do tests.
Try writing a Powershell cmdlet in a language not designed by Microsoft.
Interesting in that case that the range officer didn't destroy the rocket, or waited a really long time.
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Yes, because in the XHTML world, tags could loose any semantic meaning.

In HTML 5, one is abandoned to the CSS tricks and JavaScript hacks to make visual UI components of HTML tags.

Every time I get a consultant gig outside the web world, I rejoice.

Yet I've spend a big part of my career involved in web development.
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You can't expect Twitter to work like email when it works like text messaging.
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I can't find the post, but I remember reading that they'd rather not expose full raw data because of privacy concerns — there could be a way to mine this data to de-anonymize users.

I'd love to play with the raw data too, but I understand their concern. So far many "anonymous" large data dumps ended up exposing too much (e.g. recently NY taxi data).
This seems similar to what Google did to receive massive fines a few years back.
I didn't make this picture, but it gives a good idea on the "irregular not-quite-spherical surface" part.

http://alienspacesciencenews.files.wordpress.com/2013/10/an-...

The Local Datum could be NAD83 or what-have-you based on where you are on the surface. Using the local datum gives better distance measurements and more accurately can represent elevation.
In what specific industries are these needed? I'm curious as to how I can build an enterprise app in meteor.js.
What horrifying Iceweasel bugs did you experience?
I don't think the recognition is the challenge but rather the training of the model. Like imagine taking a really long time to compute a good linear regression equation, but then to use it you just plug in the values.

That said, this deep convolutional neural net for ImageNet with 60 million parameters and 650,000 neurons took 6 days to train on two GPUs [0]

[0] http://deeplearning.cs.cmu.edu/pdfs/1028/ImageNet.pdf
The Windows 7 version of ftp.exe still has a University of California copyright string buried inside it...
Conversations on Twitter? I use Twitter as read-only for information to see what certain people and groups are up to in near real-time.
The article was not snarky - only that first paragraph was. I imagine it must have made many people stop reading there though.
I worked with Meteor.js on an enterprise app a year ago but it seems to be more mature now. I think this is a great time to begin porting it.
When trying to get through what appears to be a brick wall of myopia, the liberal use of the block feature is more productive.

Seriously, I don't even try to have arguments anymore. A sane and relatively productive one is nearly impossible with some people. I don't know if it's the brevity of speech or the even shorter attention span, but the Online Disinhibition Effect seems to be an order of magnitude greater when it comes to certain topics.
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Sort of tangential, but my first job was working in a Barnes & Noble, and it's still the one I miss the most. More than that, while I do believe electronic distribution is both more ecologically rational and practically efficient, I'm one of those people who was raised on physical books as an avid reader... and there really is something very significant lost without that tactile experience.

I suppose it's positive that more and more people will grow up without that, so we can cut down on the number of trees we cut down, but it's still sad in a way to see that experience going away. The feel (and even sound and smell, in some cases) of a book can be very intimate.
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On the other hand I had to develop a small admin framework and decided to do it with server rendering since I thought it would be easier. I soon found all the small details I needed to think about and that there were a number of server side components/files that I had to create to do what I wanted to do. It would probably have been easier to just do it in the SPA framework I am used to (Angular).
There's more than one way to Twitter. If you know some people on it personally, you're more likely to engage in conversations.
I understand. It's really important to do a lot of Q&A, but that's precicely what we have done with these people.

And personally, I dont need people with masters degrees to translate for me. I'd much rather have people with good marketing skills/understanding and a solid language.
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That table is global market share. The source article for the 2013 data[1] shows Apple in third place for 2013Q4 market share within the United States:

Firm (4Q13 US Market Share)
HP (26.5%)
Dell (22.8%)
Apple (13.7%)

[1] http://www.gartner.com/newsroom/id/2647517
But will it have sudo, or would you run PowerShell as Administrator?
> And of course it's ridiculous that engines like NK-33 are considered bad just because they sit in a hangar for some 40+ years

I took his comment to be more in the "that's your business model? buying and selling old Russian hardware?" vein. It's not that the hardware is bad, per se.

Although the hardware might be bad. I imagine they're looking into that...
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The majority of the population in Brazil won't say a word in english, so they would rather use a not so good app in portuguese than one in english... the refinement can come later as it grows in that market (and hopefully some users' feedback)
Wardriving is also the first thing I thought off (Wigle also being my app of choice). Massive co-ordinated wardriving. I can't help but feel that this is a bad idea.
Why not automate this and remove the human factor? Google probably has an API for Translate.
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So why wouldn't I just use Netflix lol
But one of the nice things with Angular is that for small things you can get away with almost no code at all, small controllers that isn't really depending on each other for example. It is when you start on a larger system you have to think about splitting your app into services, controllers and templates/views and sending information between all those things.
Same thing just happened to me -- however, I was able to register a second account by signing out of all my Google accounts and then signing back in on just the account to which I wanted to add the key.
As other comments have already mentioned, watching the streaming contest (even copyrighted) is perfectly legal in many countries (at least in EU).
Beef in the States are normally fed corn, yes. And that's silly, yes.

Corn is heavily subsidized in the States, and also needs to be rationalized.

Under any circumstance? Please tell me what would be a more rational way of feeding people in Montana? Cows can graze on native prairie and have an ecological impact similar to the buffalo that predated them. Ripping up the native prairie to grow wheat or corn would destroy the soil and turn it into a desert in about 20 years.
I think it is great that they hade the courage to redo something that wasn't working for them anymore.
> If you think the status quo is fine, you're less likely to get hysterical than if you think there is something wrong that needs to be changed

I tend to think the opposite. It seems that if you think the status quo is fine, and someone comes along trying to change it, you are more likely to get hysterical. For example (at least here in the US), some proponents of "traditional family values" can get just as hysterical as proponents of marriage equality when marriage equality is on the ballot.
It's not often I write long, connected replies, but I prefer the (1/4) method after writing the whole thing out in notepad or something.
care to elaborate? are you arguing that saving/processing the full contents of raw captures from monitor mode is somehow easier/cheaper to process than filtering out obviously extraneous information at the point of collection?

that's not at all obvious to me, and and one of the reasons i didn't find google's claims credible.

it seems much more reasonable that they would have realized upfront that limiting the volumes of captured data could have saved considerable time/money.... unless of course they had perceived additional value from capturing more information.
I'm with you on the tactile experience. I read a lot and have tons of books piling up around my condo. I've bought multiple e-readers and have an iPad but whenever I try to use them to replace physical books I just can't do it. For me holding a physical book, getting to flip through the pages, the feel of it, there's just something about it I've come to love and I'm not sure exactly what or why.
Hell yes. I don't know how we got there.

Mailing lists can be ok with proper client but it's a step back. I found some subreddits useful (with RES) but even then it's hard to track new replies in threads that you are interested in.

HN has quality discussions but these are just about some links and it's hard to get back to some thread to see new replies (and preferably prioritize those from people who I value).

I too miss Usenet.
God, I know. I keep hearing about conversations and such on twitter, while I have a hard time fitting a single thought into a tweet, much less a thoughtful response to someone's query.

Look! Even that sentence was longer than a tweet! I don't know how people do it.
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The issue is 3% deflation is already bad and can easily spike to 50% vary quickly.
At least in Holland and Germany I think it's also predominantly WhatsApp, though.
I love archive.org. Has my first website ever on it, no way would this exist without archive.org any more!

http://web.archive.org/web/20020726224013/http://www.gamezon...
> If the problem is the creation of a magnum opus, then the solution is creating a magnum opus.

The problem is rarely the creation of a magnum opus. But people usually think that their problem is the creation of a magnum opus. And generally, they are wrong.
Oh I know this might be very sensitive privacy-wise. People should just be aware if they're contributing to a proprietary database (like Google Maps) or an open one (like OSM) when using Mozilla Stumbler.
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Not necessarily, conservatives tend to be the most hysterical when it come to Gay rights or a lot of important matter. It's not because they want the status quo to stay as it is that they won't be hysterical whenever something threaten that status quo.
Correct me if I'm wrong, bug I believe the issue with Googles wifi collection was because they had code which intentionally read (and stored?) all data being transmitted over open wifi networks.
I highly doubt it. At least for the screenshots. People will get very sceptcal if they see grammatical errors in their native language.

What I do think can be automated though, is the act of finding search phrase equivalents for different languages.

And if you have some humour or poetic fomulations in your description, it probably wont give you a very good result.
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The JVM is multi-language only because the languages were specifically designed and/or modified to run on it.
Agreed, it is very much an internal conflict of mine. On one hand, I love all the things about physical books that you listed. On the other hand, I love being able to put my kindle in my pocket and have my "library" with me.
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You should try out a service called Jot. It has a twitter feel, but is built around conversations.
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If you can't have a conversation on Twitter you may be doing something wrong. Thanks to the peers on the network we've found all sorts of interesting things.

Things like the location of rockets associated with sarin attacks in Syria[0] placed squarely on Mezzeh military airbase in Damascus. The rockets at the time were thought to be Iranian Falaq but more evidence showed them to be part of their own distinct program.

The discussion did not stay entirely on Twitter but was the main venue for it. Without being able to rope millions of random peers you may not know you will converse with later into one IRC channel, Twitter works for wide broadcast fast paced discussion.

Blocking people helps sure, but I think many people's problem seems to be a perceived lack of interesting peers.

[0] http://wikimapia.org/29357078/Falaq-2-Launch-Site
For me the tactile experience is incredibly important, especially as a software engineer that stares at a screen most of the day. Experiencing an object on more than just one level is something I think we've lost a lot of. Reading a substantial book electronically has almost no appeal to me and I love to read.
I think the article misses the point. It doesn't matter if the package manager is CLI or GUI-based, what matters is good UI and quality (+ price) of application packages.

Mobile stores (Google Play, Apple Store) are a good example of this... they host many apps & are easy to use. Who cares if you use keyboard, mouse or touch to get them.
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I wonder how you can successfully advertise to such people. The only tweet they read is probably their own.
I'm wondering: how does this compare speed-wise to other real-world JITs. For example, node.js (V8). Are there any tricks used in your VM which are not used by V8, and conversely?
No I wouldn't. I would think that she sees more, so colours that look the same to me look different to her. I would expect her painting to be more flashy because she has to portray more colours and greater ranges. I'd also expect her to emphasise this, because she's trying to explain to the idiot blind throwbacks what they can't see :)
Your SSID is being broadcast on public property. You have no claims of privacy there.
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Don't overestimate automated translation. My girlfriend is a native Japanese speaker (and professional translator) and she laughs when she sees the results of Google Translate. Especially for a language like Japanese, nothing's going to beat a human being who takes pride in their work.
I think it is more likely than not that it was more or less unintended. Meaning that I think there is a good chance that none of the people building up and deploying the collection system had any interest in looking through packet fragments (which is where I would personally draw the mistake/intention line).
The author's complaint was confusing to me because it didn't have enough context.

This is a better article:

http://www.teleread.com/drm/barnes-noble-removes-ability-to-...

The author's article didn't mention "Nook" or "Nook ecosystem" which is crucial to inferring the motivations of B&N (and also the publishers) to remove the Download button. Without that context, it just looks like a random policy change that inadvertently irritated customers.

In other words, I care more about

1) the "big picture" behind removing that download button

rather than

2) the author's personal decision to stop buying ebooks from them

As a reader, I can conclude #2 from #1. But I can't figure out #1 from #2 unless I find another article such as the one I added.
I tried ebooks for a few months, a few years ago. What killed it for me is I can't lend them out. I often read a book and recommend it to a friend, and even hand them the book to read if they happen to be at my house. Even just for those few months, this happened often enough to be a pain. So I stopped and went back to buying physical books.

I suppose e-readers are more useful for people who read _lots_ of books. I read maybe a dozen fiction novels per year. If I read at two or three times that rate, I can see managing a physical collection becoming too much of a hassle.
I haven't purchased ebooks through Barnes and Noble, but I understand how annoying it can be getting all the ebook stores/ecosystems/formats/devices to play nice with each other. It was the reason I continued to buy paper books up until recently.

My solution: buy your ebook in any store that allows downloads (Amazon, Google, Kobo), and import into Calibre. Change settings to automatically convert imported ebooks to .epub format if they aren't already (the DRM-stripping plugin is optional ;-)). Set your library folder to dropbox, and voila, you have unfettered access from anywhere (and transferring to your Kobo Aura is easy too).
How is this any different than robots.txt?

I don't see your point. If you are ignorant enough to not know how to secure against such measly attempts at privacy breach, how will you secure against a more determined hacker?

Further more the SSID is publicly broadcast, so that any device you authorized can identify and connect.