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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 th…

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 …

> The part that confused me is when they claim to have obtained MethBot source code, but never mention how. > On page 19 in the The Methbot Operation report they state that ‘White …

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 auth…

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…

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 co…

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 …

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 …

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…

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 a…

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 th…

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…

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 grandfathe…

"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,…