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This article left out a lot of details, but to me it sounds like what happened is that the FBI infiltrated PlayPen under a warrant granting them access to do so. They then used PlayPen's tor node to trace inbound traffic across the tor network and identify the IP addresses of visitors.

I could be wrong, but if that's the case, it sounds to me like the defendant didn't have a reasonable expectation of privacy. I think of it as sending a letter with no return address. If the letter is addressed to a criminal enterprise, and there is a reasonable expectation that the sender is engaged with said criminal enterprise, to the extent that the FBI can trace that letter back to the sender seems that it would be legal, in my opinion.

However, the TL;DR of this article seems to be that nobody's computer can be expected to be private because everyone's computer can be hacked. I don't think that's what the judge intended with this decision.

Yeah, I get his point that it's the best general purpose rifle out there. If you need to own a gun, it's probably one of your better options.

But I still don't get why you would need a gun. For the most part, we don't need to hunt for our food. We don't need to shoot targets either. Home defense, maybe, but there are other ways to be secure at home without weapons.

I do agree with his point that if you're going to argue against guns, you shouldn't pick and choose categories that are "ok". It's either we ban guns or we continue to live with them in our society.

The language in that description refers to "protected groups". As long as the author is not calculating selection rates for groups of candidates based on some special criteria, such as race, gender, age, etc. he should be ok, right?

I would applaud the author on trying to take a data-driven approach to discover the best hiring signals, but I must offer one major critique of the approach: These data are ultimately not too meaningful unless you correlate actual job performance with interview performance. By the author's own admission, interviews are often faulty. By correlating final-round interview performance with early-round interview performance, you are really only predicting how candidates will perform in the final-round interview, which is not necessarily a good predictor of long-term job performance.

Someone should steal these before they can sell them

Wouldn't want to miss any of that movie that put me to sleep.

Am I the only one who thought, "Maybe he is the Burmese Stephen Law, and this is just a cover story?"

I. Watched. The. Whole. Thing.

> They proposed that instead of the Van der Waals forces that normally draw water molecules gently together, polywater was composed of molecules locked in place by stronger chemical bonds, somehow catalyzed by the quartz capillary tubes.

Aren't water molecules held together by relatively strong Hydrogen bonds? And if there are stronger bonds in polywater, what are they, then, covalent bonds?

Where is the article? I clicked this and saw headline + picture.

As a web developer, I have to say that this looks amazing! You guys did a great job building this and it looks really polished. Congratulations on launching.

On the other hand, I have to agree with many of the other commenters who say they would prefer to have their files on their file system.

Maybe you could consider integrating with the file system api for platforms that support it? Then you could have the best of both worlds.

Got one

After 30 seconds of staring at the homepage, and then the about page, I have no idea what this product is, or what it does.

It kind of bothers me when people talk about fuel cell vehicles as being "emissions free". Producing the Hydrogen required to run a fuel cell requires either electrolysis of water, or extracting it from natural gas. That's really energy intensive. Either the emissions come out your tailpipe or go out a smokestack. Pick your poison.

There are other interesting fuel cell technologies that use liquids, like methanol, instead of Hydrogen as a fuel source, but even Methanol requires energy to be produced.

"A Lannister always pays his debts"

I wonder if you could just encode each frame as a gif and send it to the browser as part of an animated gif a la gifsockets (https://github.com/videlalvaro/gifsockets)?

This can be made to work in IE8 using two selectors instead of one. See Kbenson's solution.

I ended up implementing it this way. Nice idea. Just FYI there's a typo on line two (display; block should be display: block).

Got stuck on that for about 5 minutes. That's what I get for copy pasting :)

Your website is crashing because of while (true) { $('form').submit(); }. Throttle that beeyotch.

Seems promising. Kind of like a more flexible Heroku.

Did anyone else think this was pedantic?

Nice. I signed up for an account and installed the sublime plugin. Is there any way to export data? Even if it's just an API for now.

In my experience, Comp Sci grads are among the best prepared employees that we hire for programming careers. It's a great general-purpose education for the kind of work we do, although it's no substitute for hard-gained experience.

Thanks, I'll check out those titles. I wonder if they still have libraries these days?

This doesn't work on my computer. Do I need to have Javascript installed? How do I do that?

The author here makes bold, sweeping predictions about the future. While these might come true, Hoffman offers no concrete evidence to bake up the claims.

Hoffman suggests that because computers are becoming more powerful, the people who work closely with them will be less marketable, and their skills less valuable. Maybe I'm short-sighted, but I don't see this as coming true.

Bitcoin is a deflationary currency since it's supply is limited.

Doesn't that mean that it's expected to rise in price? This also ends up being the currency's downfall, since there's an incentive to hoard it rather than spend it.

Whoops.

You need a way to spawn threads. There may be a way to implement this in the main browser event loop but I have yet to think of a way.