japaw

I am working on a website where GitHub users can see how they rank compared to other users.

The site analyses GitHub profiles and commit history to make a more extensive summery then GitHub does. I made it mostly to learn more about ranking algorithms and automatic text generation.

If you have GitHub profile you can look your self up here: https://www.findsosial.com/search

For some backround: This is the "Security gun rule". Under this regulation, the Social Security Administration will submit information on recipients of disability insurance to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System if they met certain “mental impairment” criteria[0].

As I understand it most of the peopled with disability insurance for mental impairment will be military veterans.

0: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/16/gun-rights-groups...

> The part that confused me is when they claim to have obtained MethBot source code, but never mention how.

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On page 19 in the The Methbot Operation report they state that ‘White Ops detection technology was able to use a JavaScript language feature called “reflection” to gather extensive, detailed information about its inner workings.’

I have personally never heard about JavaScript reflection before, but it appear to be a debug method for one object to dump information or data about another object.

Maybe the White Ops software loaded some JavaScript that was able to dump much of its environment and send it back to White Ops?

As I understand it is currently unknown where the author got the data. If WeWorks published this in a publicly available API it is of course reasonable to chart it, but if the author somehow misuses the access he got as a tenant there, this is not (in my view) just an issue about the author publishing a negative blog post as the title indicates.

To be fear, they did not just publish a negative blog post about WeWork as the title may suggest, but somehow obtained proprietary data WeWork probably sees as a trade secret.

Many companies will revoke your access then.

Found one source that indicates that the payment may be substantial: "Financial Times reports that one digital media company (which asked not to be named) was told that it would cost 30 percent of its advertising revenue to be whitelisted by Eyeo and AdBlock Plus." - http://arstechnica.com/business/2015/02/over-300-businesses-...

This is going to be a hurdle for me that need a search feed that can be parsed server side. There alternative YPA (Yahoo Partner Ads) is client side only.

Will most people migrate to Microsoft Bing? The results are the same anyway, but the api format differs.

Are there any large publicly available archives of usenet one can download?

I need it for an information retrieval research project. I am aware of gmane.org, but do not think they allow bulk download.

Probobly. Hopefully so have they learned from the fallout from the AOL search log case ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AOL_search_data_leak ). That case was certainly a big mess.

Besides China, there are other sources North Korea can have used to aquiver this technology. Both North Korea, Libya, Iran and China did get help developing nuclear technology from a network set up by Abdul Qadeer Khan, a Pakistani nuclear physicist often regarded as the fonder of the Pakistani nuclear enrichment program.

He again acquired the technology in Europe when working for Urenco, a nuclear fuel company.

The whole Q.A Khan affair is quit a fascinating story actually.

Some more information on http://world.time.com/2011/07/07/a-q-khans-revelations-did-p... and https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Qadeer_Khan

I did also see a very good documentary about this, but I can not find it online right now.

Edit: Here is the BBC documentary about Khans dealings in nuclear secrets: http://www.unewstv.com/6821/bbc-documentary-on-dr-abdul-qade... . Stranger then fiction, it has a plot like a top thriller movie.

No they probably do not have the users Facebook password, but they do not need it for scraping, because they can just use their own use for that.

I have looked around on Facebook and it looks like one can see other users friend list, even if you are not in their immediate network.

Even if Facebook has a limitation, like you can only see the friend list of friends of friends the company behind this app could probably make some fake Facebook users and befriends someone on each university to get an ok coverage.

Maybe web scraping then? It would not be so hard to make a focused scraper that scrapes the friends of anyone using the app.

Edit: I did a quick test and at looks like I can see the friend list of many users that is not in my immediate network as long as I am logged in to Facebook. It should then be easy to use something like Perls WWW::Mecanize to make a scraper that log inn and scrapes the profiles you want, as long as one do not need so many that Facebook detects and banns you.

However the tools are getting better also. You now "stand on the shoulders of giants". With modern computer based math tools you can, for some problems, be lot more productive then working out everything on paper.

You can also just search the internet many types of information and methods instead of having parallel invent it. Making you more effective.

The world is getting more complex. Here where I live we have a system with a basic 8-10 years of education from years ~6-16, then apprenticeship school or university.

My grandfather had a good standard of income with only apprenticeship (3 years). My father needed apprenticeship + trade school (3 + 2 years) and my generation will probably need a master degree to have the same income level (3 year of preparation + 5 year at the university).

I can only wonder how long my grandchildrens education will be.

"2015 was the beginning of the end for SSDs in the data center." is quit a bold statement especial when not discussing any alternative. I do not see us going back to magnetic disk, and most new storage technology are some kind of ssd...