skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Senate struggled to prevent an interruption in critical government surveillance programs early Saturday

That is a very strange way to start this article. Consider to what type of government, activity of this sort(unencumbered spying on all of its citizens) would be 'critical.' Is that the type of government you believe the United States has or should have?

Then after making this strange statement and providing no support for it, the article actually goes on to refute the claim. If nearly half of the senators are against it, then it is surely not very 'critical,' is it?

Maybe instead of 'critical,' the author meant to say 'much criticized.'
Android Factory reset fails to wipe sensitive user data, million devices at risk
I boycotted firefox after the Brendan Eich affair.

Mozilla is supposed to be a symbol of the hacker ethic.

When they bent to the whims of social media lynch mobs - they betrayed the one who literally built the foundation of their existence.
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-TouchID is in the plan;
-AppleWatch as well;
-challenge with seed? Users already complain the current process why to write down the seed. Very hard to balance security and usability; Electrum is for pro;
-Good suggestion;
-Our multisig has some specific security design. Not sure if bitGo or Trustedcoin supports. We will certainly support more 3-rd parties once we have bandwidth;
thank you again.
well, it's "not expected to" (we won't ask you about at the exam) rather than "expected not to" (this is too difficult for you feeble minds) :)
How is the Yahoo search deal any different than the search deal with Google that they've had for years and years?

And the EME module, good or bad, is not a security hole like Flash. The CDM modules are heavily sandboxed, preventing them from doing anything in the system besides talking to the browser. On Linux, it uses seccomp: https://lwn.net/Articles/332974/
wasn't freebsd using perforce at some point?
Can Aging Be Cured?
So Senior Software Engineers at Google make about 250k in total compensation.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Senior-Software-Engin...

Now, 250k isn't 350k, but 350k is the high end of Senior Software Engineer at Netflix, and that's what Staff Software Engineers at Google make.

http://www.glassdoor.com/Salary/Google-Staff-Software-Engine...

Staff Software Engineers are "extra senior engineers" that are on the same HR level as engineering managers. I don't think Netflix makes this distinction.
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I don't think so. The bid for constant-time implementations is fairly new whereas the key size issue has a long history. What I hear all the time in the practice is speed and backwards compatibility.
While I appreciate that there are people who do this, I also end up wondering where it'll end up. Debian, for example, has had to go round and round on whether the GNU FDL is actually sufficiently Free for Debian's guidelines. As I understand it, the current status is the FDL is considered non-DFSG-compatible by default, and exceptions are only available when it can be demonstrated that the FDL is used in a way that doesn't bring certain clauses into play.
Would anyone recommend studying in ireland for a masters degree?
They're using this to teach an interdisciplinary computing course at my university. I haven't played with it enough to form my own opinion on it, but some of the academic staff here are pretty sceptical.
Winning a tv show is not self promotion. Do you regularly win tv shows, and unwittingly upset others by doing so?

Plain old begrudgery is quite different to the annoyance at people self promoting. Though I can see one trait being 'correlated' with the other.
As someone who transitioned from 100% business/marketing side to 25% business and 75% development, actually I am not missing the point.

There are many upsides to running and owning a tech business and for some of the engineers those upsides can outweigh the negatives.
Byte encoding exploits in PHP files • Conetix
Excellent and very informative article, thanks.
I agree that it is a valid concern but it doesn't support the "Google sells user data" premise without reductio ad absurdum.
How should one respond properly as a recipient to a friend in such cases even if you are annoyed?
Unfriend them ? That way you don't have the suffer the constant flow of bragging.
The picture in the Techcrunch post is pretty clear. The browser talks with an adserver (step 5). And how could it get ads if it didn't do that, pick them from a static list compiled into the browser binary? Soon out of date and hardly interesting for advertisers.

Based on what I've read in the actual implementation discussion in Bugzilla, the process actually consists of:

1. A Mozilla-controlled server hosts bundles of tiles, which are periodically updated.

2. The browser periodically downloads updated bundles of tiles from that server.

3. Using metadata in the bundles, the browser decides which ones to display.

A lot of discussion seems to have centered on ensuring the bundles and their metadata have enough overlap to ensure that even Mozilla's servers can't determine which sites in the browser history caused a particular tile to display.
If he really worked on wall st, he would ensure to create tranches of these securitized rental bonds, mixing in plenty of bad ones, getting them top ratings from the agencies, then selling them to the pension funds, cash in his bonus and wait for the whole charade to implode, and demand tax payer serfs bail out as appropriate.
Cool!
I think it will got more users when it's OpenSource.
You can check https://github.com/httpsGithubParty/FOSS-for-Dev to see how it works.
It would be really tricky to provide a resource on starting event sourcing. Its usually only necessary when you have a pretty complicated and unique problem.

It's more of an approach to higher level architecture than a technique. (think MVC as opposed to Rails). There is no starting MVC tutorial.

Check out https://geteventstore.com/ for a standardized bit of tech with usage docs
Agree, the language was very conflicting throughout.
I think there's more to it than this. The effect of your bragging will be different on different people: some will be annoyed at it, while others will be happy for you. People have freedom in who they associate with.

I suspect that people (often subconsciously, sometimes consciously) use self-promotion as a way of filtering out the people who don't really like them anyway. If you let everybody know when something good happens to you, then everybody who's annoyed by good things happening to you will go away. Everybody left is genuinely happy for your success, because otherwise they would've stopped listening to you (or if they don't, it's their problem). So this is a way of culling your friends and acquaintances to optimize your social relationships.
Hi,

I'm not affiliated with Microsoft, but you can sign up for a free trial [1]. They'll give you 150 euro in credits for a month to play around with. Besides that, a lot of their services are available very cheaply to play around with, for example table storage and blob storage, Azure websites, would hardly cost you anything or you can even use it for free if you hardly have any data/usage to get to know the system. There are of course things that will cost you, but if you're just willing to play around, for 50 euro a month investment yourself you can get quite far.

What Microsoft also offers is Bizspark [2], which if it is applicable, will help you along the way nicely.

I fully agree that the Amazon credits is setup a little bit nicer to just play with, but with that first month (if you dedicate some time for it) you should get a good feel of it, plus the opportunity for Bizspark helps a lot, and if you don't fit in the Bizspark requirements I think it's more than reasonable to assume you can pay 50 euros a month to test it for a longer period than a month!

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/bizspark/default.aspx

[2] http://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/free-trial/
> when someone else does well

The issue is not about casual bragging, there's literally a mass of people out there who live to brag about whatever they do, wherever they go, whoever they are with. And we did not need a study to know that they were annoying.
From RT: Senate passes bill granting Obama ‘fast-track’ TPP authority

This post you are replying to is about a Patriot Act extension, something very different.
In this instance, parrying chub-li's super is an exercise in replaying accurately a complete pattern (akin to a rhythm game) Although difficult it has nothing to do with reaction.

The reaction to the super's startup is the potentially interesting part, however it is quite clear that it's something that Daigo was quite prepared to react to given the situation. And the initial parry requires forward movement of the stick, which is a fast twitch movement.

Justin was also counting on Daigo being able to react; he was convinced almost certainly that Daigo would block and see his life depleted by the super's damage on block. What Justin was not prepared to was Daigo's parry.
Like every security, this one has its own risk and the investors should take that into consideration when investing. Hopefully these securities aren't going to be mixed up with other less risky ones and sold together as AAA securities...
Prospects of Masters in Computer Sc. At KTH Stockholm
There are quite a few companies that do not really care where their workforce is located. Examples that come to mind immediately are basecamp.com, wpmudev.org, buffer.com, zapier.com,...
I don't think there is a directory of these companies or a job site focusing on these kind of jobs, but if you search for remote or distributed workforce you will find many examples.. then just browse their job listings.

This is slowly becoming the new way for companies to operate imho. In the key metro areas office space and employees have become way to expensive and scarce. Hiring talent where ever that talent chooses to work is a much better strategy. We do the same at my company but unfortunately, we do not have any open positions right now :)
I debunk studies like this in my seminars "how great I am, how great am I."
Some people may complain about being annoyed, but they just don't understand, and so I need to keep promoting even more till they do.
Have I told you how great I am?
11% sounds out of reach in the EU
Sen.Inhofe: Patriot Act Critics Forget; N.Korea, Iraq on Path to “Kill Everyone”
"The group made $8.3bn (£5.3bn) of worldwide sales from British online shoppers but for 11 years all these internet transactions have been booked in Luxembourg."

Written in such a way to make the average person think amazon make £5.3bn profit - which of course they don't.
This was actually "parrying" rather than blocking (a fun part of SF3), but you're otherwise correct.
Yanis Varoufakis is more than his clothes
Apple is not a software company, they should focus on hardware.
Maybe this is pedantic, but it's not quite that simple. If Daigo (Ken) had blocked any hit from Justin's (Chun-Li) super, he would have lost his remaining health (via "chip damage", which you take even while blocking) and hence the round.

I'm not an expert on the subject so I won't attempt my own explanation. There's a nice article here that I think does a good job of explaining what makes Daigo's performance here so incredible:

http://www.gatheryourparty.com/2013/03/12/more-than-mashing-...
That is something I was worried about, because afaik, ghcjs is still fairly experimental. But ability to use ghc's magic to produce javascript sounds aluring :-)

I think, that if you could integrate source-map capabilities (haven't tried http://hackage.haskell.org/package/sourcemap yet) it might make the debug process more bearable.

But if you would be looking for haskell-like-language with more comprehensible to-javascript output, http://www.purescript.org/ pleasantly suprised me (even though I had time to barely get past the hello world :-)
There were strict collections on subprime mortgages too, according to the documentation.
I gave blackberry a chance, buying one of their OS 10 based devices. But they simply don't get it. Boot time is measured in days.
Lots and lots and lots of snags and bugs and glitches still persist even though it is now 10.3.

They have services that keep running that then annoy you to log in, even if you don't want to (no I don't have a BlackBerry login, nor do I want one, and don't keep bugging me in the alerts).

They send spam alerts, for example when trying to offload their new failing handset models.

Cut and paste is a disaster.
What a delightful data set!

I was very surprised to see the ocurence of goto lines in the Unix source code. Not to mention an increasing amount of them in the later years! I've heard [0] that Goto's are considered harmful.

[0] http://www.u.arizona.edu/~rubinson/copyright_violations/Go_T...
Calling All Cryptographers – NTRU Challenge
They didn't bend to social media. They made it very clear they were surprised by the internal reactions and that's why he stepped back down. Besides, social media or not, the primary reason the issue blew up at all was a lack of transparency in their organizational politics. This isn't about Gamergate.
Public-key cryptosystems without poly-time quantum attacks
Over 8000€ for the diy kit. Are there any similar projects more oriented to hobbyists?
I think the lowest entry point for this is an A0, which offers an admittedly very small (half an A1) VM for 9.98 euro a month. Good to start off with, and if you build your application slightly differently you can actually run it on two machines, total power is the same, with only the communication overhead between them which luckily isn't that high if you put them in the same region. I find that I can run a very decent amount of software on Azure for a very very low price, but sometimes I needed to make certain architectural changes (for example using Cloud Services + Table Storage + Service Bus instead of VM's and SQL Server makes the whole system very cheap).

A very nice thing that NServiceBus does on Azure is giving the opportunity to have multiple endpoints hosted in the same Cloud Service [1]. Taking this mindset, for small applications, you can build it so when needed (and presumably when money is also less of a thing since you need more), you can scale out easily, but when just starting up you can do it super cheap. This depends a lot on your application though, but for example the Topshelf framework [2] can help a lot.

I'm not affiliated with either Microsoft or NServiceBus, but I am an avid user of both and really love the ecosystem, including the pricing ;)

[1] http://docs.particular.net/nservicebus/azure/shared-hosting-...

[2] https://github.com/Topshelf/Topshelf
This is cool but I always wish it wasn't just Logo. People get bored with Logo fairly quickly in my experience.
The guaranteed 5% rent increases will lead to interesting times.
just to clarify, NSLs are not moot, not unconstitutional and are still a 'thing'.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_security_letter#Histo...

there's more cute backronyms on the way:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USA_Freedom_Act
Hi BontoJR,

Same as above: you send me your order # to wojtek[at]estimote and I'll update you on the expected delivery. And really sorry for the delay!

Cheers.
SNAP! considers itself as Scheme disguised as Scratch and rightfully so.

We had our Intro to CS class with SNAP, which I hated at the beginning, but towards the end, the professor used it to explain fundamental CS topics (sorting, data structures, parallelism) that was approachable by all. For the class projects, people that had no prior exposure to programming made some amazing stuffs with it.
I think, it depends on customers in database, currently, it is 2.7M customers.
The names of US senate bills sometimes seem straight out of 1984. Freedom Act. Patriot Act. It's amazing they can keep a straight face while saying those names.
See also the "Can Daigo do the full parry again? Daigo Umehara vs. Justin Wong *2014" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3nC2D6sOrbg
'Cash-strapped' Hah you must be kidding! I also think 6 million cameras for a total population of 60 million is a little bit high dontchathink?!
I've encountered the same frustration and created Dockpit (https://dockpit.io) as a solution; it uses Docker containers though.
IIRC from my molecular biology class, the biggest (or maybe one of the biggest?) problems is about Telomeres[1].

I was impressed by this study[2]: "Lifestyle Changes May Lengthen Telomeres, A Measure of Cell Aging".

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telomere

[2] http://www.ucsf.edu/news/2013/09/108886/lifestyle-changes-ma...
dude, you are just plain wrong in this. any of the (few) major software organizations in Russia know very well what ACM/icpc are. the winners definitely get a preferred treatment in the interview pipeline.
They work, but you get incredibly fed up with them after not too long. They especially suck for early morning breakfast-coffee.

If you can live with that, then no problem. Much better coffee then preground.
This will be extremely useful for running on very small devices (not all ARM boards have the virtualisation extensions that are needed to run Mirage unikernels as Xen VMs).

But it also looks like lots of progress has been made with cross-compilation support in the OCaml compiler too. At the moment, I compile my Xen unikernels on my Cubieboard, but it would be quicker to cross-compile to ARM on my laptop and just push the final VM image.
Currently these Mozilla domains are blocked in our internal networks. Not all of them are data-collecting services, but it's better to be safe than sorry:

self-repair.mozilla.*
tiles.services.mozilla.*
tiles.*.services.mozilla.*
pfs.mozilla.*
snippets.mozilla.*
fxfeeds.mozilla.*
services.addons.mozilla.*
crash-stats.mozilla.*
*.data.mozilla.*
versioncheck-bg.addons.mozilla.*
fhr.cdn.mozilla.*
sendto.mozilla.*
push.services.mozilla.*

The amount of stuff you must block to have a decent browser experience nowadays is simply mind boggling. Of course, Chrome or Opera are no more better.
Interesting concept. I imagine there are a lot of very minor effects like this. One of the real mechanics behind woo ideas that people seem to be drawn to.
We can read and write English just fine in Kenya. No translation needed.
I get hammered for this, but the the United States should require all foreigners who buy realestate be citizens first.
There should be no straw buyers.

I would like to see severe limits put on Real Estate Investment trusts. I would like to see them regulated out of existence.

I would like to see mandatory rental of properties after the third purchase. Example--A person buys a home and a vacation property. The third residential, or commercial property bought should be rented out if the particular county needs more rental property.

Personally, I don't like Realestate speculation if it involves renters. I always felt it was a slimy way to make money. That goes for mini-storages too. Yes, it's legal; I just don't respect Investors who make money off renters. If you are going to rent at a reasonable rate, and not nickel and dime the renter--fine, but I have never met a landlord who didn't get greedy with a good market.

I do understand buying a home to live in. I know a lot of you will say it's the same thing as buying rental property. I see nuances which make the two transactions different.

While, I'm at it, why are we still relying on realestate agents and brokers? It's 8 courses, a simple test, dubious experience, and a cheezy smile--and they have the nerve to ask for 3%? I have never quite figured out the full commission game. It just seems like a profession that should be extinct by now? Sorry Realtors--just don't understand your role in most transactions these days, other than your errors and omissions policy, which I can go after if things don't go smoothly?

Just venting people. I have seen long term residents being forced to move from the county they raised their kids in because of escalating rents. These are just regular people. They don't have fancy credentials. They don't have jobs that transfer. Many are on a fixed income. These are people who just want to be near their family, and friends, but are being kicked out of their county because of this crazy market.
Too bad that for some reason in my browser (Chromium version 43.0.2357.65 (64-bit) on Arch Linux), HiDPI setup (which was added to Chromium very recently), the fonts look extremely blurry, giving me the irresistible urge to squeeze my eyelids to get things in focus.
I experience no such blurriness with other web apps (whether using plain HTML/CSS, SVG, HTML5 Canvas, etc.).
> who live to brag about whatever they do, wherever they go, whoever they are with

Yeah, but why is that annoying? What is the core reason for reacting negatively to others' self-promotion.

The feeling can be quite viceral, and that might suggest an evolutionary origin. Do we equate self-promotion with unfairness, or taking more than your own share? Or does it have to do with our tendency to define our own well being as a comparison to the apparent well being of others (as in: you got a promotion, so my status relative to the average of my social group got worse).

The fact is, that self-promotion, at least on social networks, is mostly harmless and should not warrant negative emotions. But it does. And that is interesting.
Well he is really close to IEEE[1], so I think if there was any legalize involved, he must covered it. I follow professor Spinellis since 2008 and he seems to be a really nice guy who pays exceptional attention to details.

UPDATE: Apparently DSpinellis is the new editor in chief of IEEE software magazine[1].

[1] http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/tools-of-the-trade

[2] http://www.computer.org/web/computingnow/software/edboard
Yes! Way back, Snap was the first browser-compatible[1] block-based coding environment I came across[2], and it got me really excited about the things teaching programming on internet-connected touch devices could make possible.

For those interested, a couple of other neat projects with a similar focus on visual programming in the browser—

Blockly https://developers.google.com/blockly/ — fantastic subtle UI affordances for snapping, deletion, and a neat mostly-block-world-only way of manipulating everything (including defining new procedures). Growing set of apps out there which consume this library.

Droplet https://github.com/dabbler0/droplet — awesome animated transition from blocks to text, and back again. Extremely flexible on the "what arbitrary code segment can constitute a draggable block" side, has drag-to-multi-select and undo support. Uses ACE on the text side of things

[1] having previously used Scratch and Etoys in a handful of rural schools on XO laptops

[2] hey... I shared this page 804 days ago, and only 2 upvotes! Before its time, or my crappy headline?
That not grade as in "A, B, C, ..." but grade as in age separation.
For investment, non owner-occupied houses, that's generally the case. You can get 3.5% down for certain FHA programs.
USA Patriot Act: Expiring Sections
Self-promotion may be annoying, but that doesn't mean that it's unsuccessful, it may still change others' perception of one's skill and accomplishments. It's like commercial advertising, we all hate it most of the time, but it may still work.
Mother Jones has little interest in full quotes. Besides no hedge founder would ever talk to another Jones unless they were going to buy it.
Underestanding PowerVR GPUs via Metal