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MereInterest

The Grand Tour, 2.0

Thevet

Rats. From the title, I had been hoping that it was referring to the Planetary Grand Tour. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Planetary_Grand_Tour ), the configuration for which will not occur again until about 2150. I had hoped that this article meant that there was an alternate, though perhaps slightly less fuel efficient, route.

2014-09-24 17:08:19 UTC

misiti3780

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

His website needs some work

2014-09-24 17:10:25 UTC

huhtenberg

Alexey Chervonenkis found dead

reinhardt

In brief -There's a very large park in Moscow called Лосиный остров ("Moose Island"), more of a forest really. On Sep 21st he went out for a walk in this park and around midnight called his relatives and told them he got lost. They called the police and the emergency services. Tried calling him back as well, but he didn't answer. On Sep 23rd his body was spotted from a helicopter that was involved in a search and it was ID'd by the relatives.The rest of the article is fluff.[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Losiny_Ostrov_National_Park

2014-09-24 17:10:27 UTC

chdir

JQuery site hacked

bomatson

Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8359223

2014-09-24 17:10:29 UTC

sauere

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

Not another story about this overrated dude.Don't get me wrong, im sure hes a nice guy. But he hasn't demonstrated anything useful for 20+ years and it seems he is mainly making a living writing vague non-technical h4ax0r books and giving interviews. Hell, i think he cant even code.

2014-09-24 17:10:56 UTC

jareds

This Is Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense

gabzuka

It was also not explained why this person is going to school. Why are they going to school? I would assume that if they were making the choice to put in the work for school they have not completely given up on a better life in which case I would expect them to at least consider making some other better decisions.

2014-09-24 17:11:27 UTC

elliottcarlson

JQuery site hacked

bomatson

Probably not a good idea to link to a hacked site, and not a good idea to click through to one either.

2014-09-24 17:11:33 UTC

rrhoover

Hunting the Hunters – Tips for Releasing on Product Hunt

oo7jeep

To follow up on #5, talk like a human. People are generally turned off by PR speak so I recommend makers be personable. :)

2014-09-24 17:12:32 UTC

andolanra

What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?

rossj

Something that tends to get lost in these discussions: it's not a question of systemd-versus-sysvinit. Systemd is miles better than sysvinit. There's absolutely no question that the vast majority of Linux users would rather sysvinit disappear entirely.But that doesn't mean that there aren't better alternatives. My personal preference is runit[1], which is based on djb's daemontools[2] and gives you all the dependency management and speed gains of systemd without the monolithic architecture and without the complicated shell scripts of sysvinit, as well as cool features like service management trees for non-root users. (In fact, runit doesn't need to be run as init—you can run it as a non-root user and provide service management even if you use another init. It just happens to make a nice init.)The tests I've seen show that a minimal system with runit boots roughly as fast as than a minimal system with systemd. That doesn't mean runit is the end-all solution to "which init"—it's perfect for my needs, but maybe not yours—but it does mean that the choice is not a choice between systemd-but-fast versus sysvinit-but-slow. The field of choices is much, much broader.[1]: http://smarden.org/runit/[2]: http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html

2014-09-24 17:12:44 UTC

recalibrator

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

Flagged for spam. I don't care if it's the New York Times or not. What does this have to do with anything?

2014-09-24 17:14:00 UTC

tait

Show HN: Beyondpad – New kind of note taking and data management solution

dzjosjusuns

The video went pretty fast for lay users to follow.As a survivor of online projects that ended up closing down, I will wait for a way to export data before using this seriously.

2014-09-24 17:14:35 UTC

chubot

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

"My clients may use them to monitor your activities? How do you like them apples, Chris?" -- Mitnick to ACLU technologist, last line of articleWow what a first class dick. He's implying that he will be glad to sell zero days to the government to illegally monitor ACLU activities (e.g. free speech, etc.)?

2014-09-24 17:15:22 UTC

lovelearning

What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?

rossj

Assuming that everything the author says turns out true - such as the "big one" exploit - in say an year from now, does anybody know any active popular open source distro that aims to keep systemd away from servers?

2014-09-24 17:15:53 UTC

piratebroadcast

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Someone please ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5)?

2014-09-24 17:16:28 UTC

arenaninja

JQuery site hacked

bomatson

I went to jQuery.com and the website is normal, and this is the second time this comes up. Does anybody know what's going on?

2014-09-24 17:18:00 UTC

mjwhansen

This Is Why Poor People's Bad Decisions Make Perfect Sense

gabzuka

Looks like she just wrote a book, "Hand to Mouth: Living in Bootstrap America" that will be available in early October: http://www.amazon.com/Hand-Mouth-Living-Bootstrap-America/dp...Also, shouldn't this article have a (2013) tag?

2014-09-24 17:19:22 UTC

nodesocket

JQuery hacked

anto210

What exactly are we looking for? Only see a few failed to load JavaScript assets, and those could be from my Hotel wireless injecting their Ads.http://engine.adzerk.net/ados.js?_=1411579196670andhttp://cloak.ovatn.net/adframe/cframe.js?id=1491

2014-09-24 17:19:52 UTC

piratebroadcast

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

My friend tried it on Heroku - It is affected.

2014-09-24 17:20:01 UTC

sp332

JQuery hacked

anto210

Why does this go to a documentation page? Anyway this was already discussed https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8359223

2014-09-24 17:20:40 UTC

BrindsleyQuives

Show HN: rmarkdown, awesome editor for awesome markdown

chinmaymk

Double Arse-Sum!!!

2014-09-24 17:20:49 UTC

pinko

A guy slipped inside tiger's cage in Indian zoo, dead

chankey_pathak

Flagged. This is a snuff film.

2014-09-24 17:21:34 UTC

abvdasker

The SSD Endurance Experiment: Only Two Remain After 1.5PB

ferrari8608

Really excellent writing on these pieces. I lol'd at "dutifully bricked itself". If only all tech writing were as colorfully engaging.

2014-09-24 17:22:18 UTC

Kiro

Hosting for Node.js apps done right

kertof

How does this compare to Nodejitsu? Also, do you have support for socket.io?

2014-09-24 17:22:48 UTC

ambiate

JQuery hacked

anto210

It is already gone, but noted: https://twitter.com/jquery/status/514811609752289281

2014-09-24 17:23:07 UTC

hackuser

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

I don't see much that's novel in the article, other than perhaps the rack dimensions. Corporate servers and workstations have been designed for easy, screwless maintenance for a long time, going back to the 1990s I think. I'm pretty sure I also hot swapped array drives back then by just pulling a lever. I can't remember the last time I needed a screwdriver for a corporate server/desktop; I even see laptops now (HP Elite line) that are screwless, at least the parts I've seen, and designed for easy maintenance.

2014-09-24 17:23:23 UTC

DanBlake

JQuery site hacked

bomatson

What was the hack? Seems they fixed it / took it down already, whatever it was

2014-09-24 17:24:39 UTC

minimaxir

Hunting the Hunters – Tips for Releasing on Product Hunt

oo7jeep

This article fails to mention one of the most popular "tactics" for releasing on Product Hunt: begging your friends for upvotes.In fairness, the OP did not explicitly ask for upvotes on Twitter, just provided a link to his Product Hunt submission. ( https://twitter.com/aten/status/511904562857254914 ) The difference is that doing that on Reddit or Hacker News will get your post killed and you potentially shadowbanned. And justifiably so, since putting an emphasis on social media popularity in determining ranking takes away from the quality of the submission.If you don't believe that upvote begging is a problem on Product Hunt, just look at Twitter. ( https://twitter.com/search?q=product%20hunt%20upvote&src=typ... ) Note how most of those have Favorites and Replies from Ryan Hoover himself or another employee.I doubt this policy will be reversed since it's the reason PH became so popular, but this is the primary reason I'll never take Product Hunt seriously.

2014-09-24 17:25:17 UTC

A_COMPUTER

Emma Watson nude photo threats were apparently a plot to kill 4chan

valanto

I don't feel like there is going to be any investigation on how easy it is to bait the media with a domain name and simple hosting, because the same outfits that got hoaxed all benefited from the generated outrage.

2014-09-24 17:25:27 UTC

peterwwillis

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Know what isn't vulnerable to this? Perl CGI scripts with taint mode enabled. http://perldoc.perl.org/perlsec.html#Taint-mode You may not use data derived from outside your program to affect something else outside your program--at least, not by accident. All command line arguments, environment variables, locale information (see perllocale), results of certain system calls (readdir(), readlink(), the variable of shmread(), the messages returned by msgrcv(), the password, gcos and shell fields returned by the getpwxxx() calls), and all file input are marked as "tainted". Tainted data may not be used directly or indirectly in any command that invokes a sub-shell, nor in any command that modifies files, directories, or processes, with the following exceptions:

2014-09-24 17:25:30 UTC

why-el

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Is someone from Heroku online here right now? My apps are all affected and since I am trusting Heroku with this, I am hoping they patch the system as soon as possible.

2014-09-24 17:25:39 UTC

sethbannon

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

Really great list. I hope you keep updating this as the mobile web app development landscape changes.

2014-09-24 17:26:21 UTC

saurabhnanda

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Am I vulnerable if using the Paperclip gem to manage file uploads on a Rails app (it internally fires up 'convert' to generate thumbnails, I believe).What if there is an haproxy sitting in front of the Rails app?

2014-09-24 17:26:39 UTC

mjhea0

Minimal Viable Product: EzInterview

bigbenbusiness

clickable link: http://bb-ezinterview.rhcloud.com

Url: bb-ezinterview.rhcloud.comIn a world where everyone is busy, even something as serious as a job interview can easily become a wasted endeavor. Phone interviews are often considered as nothing more than a simple piece of the screening process and every Onsite interview more or less reflecting a marathon endeavor, its a wonder we ever take the plunge to apply in the first place! Often the interview process is just as painful for the person on the other end or sitting across the table from you. There are just so many things that are frustrating about the interview process!Enter EzInterview, an application that provides the ultimate in interview flexibility. Create an interview at anytime and connect from any computer using Chrome or Firefox! When in the interview one can join with video & audio chat, interactively walk through a problem using the WhiteBoard or write out or code a problem using the new interactive text editor!Through the use of the latest in technologies such as WebRTC, Socket.IO, Django, and Node.js we believe we can find that sweet spot of the flexibility of a phone interview combined with the seriousness of an Onsite one

2014-09-24 17:27:03 UTC

AndrewKemendo

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

I remember seeing a video from the Facebook server engineering/maintenance crews and was really impressed with all that they were doing.“Many silo these engineering teams –server, storage, database, [and so forth]. We don’t create these barriers,”Does anyone know how they are structurally organized?I also wonder who directed that all of these innovations be standard, eg. was it Zuckerberg, Sandberg, Corddry or what?

2014-09-24 17:27:15 UTC

alexbilbie

Tell HN: We're doing a free seminar about the 2015 Digital Goods VAT changes

alexbilbie

Some info about the VAT changes can be found here - http://oleb.net/blog/2014/07/eu-vat-changes-2015/

2014-09-24 17:27:18 UTC

schrodingersCat

Ask HN: Suggest a Novel Robotics Project for PhD, Bio-inspired Direction

jmiseikis

This really depends on how practical you want to get. One of the biggest problems in hospitals is (lack of) staffing. Having a robot that could go around the rooms and check on low-level, treatment related problems would be a huge improvement in patient care. Imagine using CV to check on IV pumps for flow rate, how much of the drug is left, is it leaking, does the patient need more IV fluids, does the name on the drug label match the patient's, etc. These are low level problems that can lead to injury and death of patients in hospitals, and usually handled by overworked nurses. Seems like a perfect application of CV to me.

I'm just starting my PhD with focus on bio-inspired robotics. I'm lucky to have quite a lot of freedom to choose the project I want to work on, as long as it fits the focus of the lab. Currently, the focus is on evolutionary robotics, AI, analysing the gap between simulation and reality and robotic surgery. Personally, I have quite a strong background in Computer Vision and loved working with ROS on my Masters project. The resources I have access to: - Two advanced 3D printers - Motoman SIA20 7 DoF robotic arm - Universal Robots robotic arm - Couple of high precision motion capture systems - Nao - Otto Bock SensorHand - Kinects, Leap Motion and other various sensors - People and doctors working at university hospital - Some FPGA experts... and of course hardware could be bought given a good project.As you see, it's quite a good opportunity, so I'd like to hear your opinions on what you would do in my position without actually giving my thoughts first. Quite crazy thoughts are appreciated as well! :-)

2014-09-24 17:27:39 UTC

mjhea0

Minimal Viable Product: EzInterview

bigbenbusiness

This could def. use some front end love. I'd love to dig into the code. Is it on Github?

Url: bb-ezinterview.rhcloud.comIn a world where everyone is busy, even something as serious as a job interview can easily become a wasted endeavor. Phone interviews are often considered as nothing more than a simple piece of the screening process and every Onsite interview more or less reflecting a marathon endeavor, its a wonder we ever take the plunge to apply in the first place! Often the interview process is just as painful for the person on the other end or sitting across the table from you. There are just so many things that are frustrating about the interview process!Enter EzInterview, an application that provides the ultimate in interview flexibility. Create an interview at anytime and connect from any computer using Chrome or Firefox! When in the interview one can join with video & audio chat, interactively walk through a problem using the WhiteBoard or write out or code a problem using the new interactive text editor!Through the use of the latest in technologies such as WebRTC, Socket.IO, Django, and Node.js we believe we can find that sweet spot of the flexibility of a phone interview combined with the seriousness of an Onsite one

2014-09-24 17:27:43 UTC

codingdave

Show HN: Beyondpad – New kind of note taking and data management solution

dzjosjusuns

That video give me no sense of how this really works. I just see a jumble of boxes and colors, and a voiceover who keeps throwing single words out there without any context. Nothing on that page or in the video makes me feel like this would truly organize my work any better than my trusted, permanently open, plain text to do list.

2014-09-24 17:28:02 UTC

pbreit

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

Sort of a neat service but at $12/meal, a bit on the high side. And amazingly inefficient with respect to packaging & delivery.It seems that what people might want are 1) simple guide to what basics I should have in the kitchen (spices, oils, etc) and 2) simple recipes where I buy the chicken/fish/veggies fresh. Probably not a fundable idea and likely already exists (although I haven't quite seen it).

2014-09-24 17:29:39 UTC

rbinv

ClearSlide Mail – A Sales-focused Email, Calendar, and Contacts App for iOS

mfkp

> "Know exactly when and where your email was opened, and see how long your content was viewed."Since most email applications (including web apps) don't auto-load external images, how exactly is this supposed to be achieved?

2014-09-24 17:30:41 UTC

kyberias

IBM Watson API

miket

Looking at that example, I wonder why that Porcaro quote is listed as evidence. It doesn't relate to Jackson's album at all.

2014-09-24 17:30:56 UTC

megaman22

The Product Manager vs. The Engineering Manager

bdehaaff

One thing that bothered me about this was the choice of pronouns for the two roles. Probably, its more likely that a product manager is female, and an engineering manager is male, but wouldn't it have made just as much sense using neutral pronouns?

2014-09-24 17:31:33 UTC

ascendantlogic

Kevin Mitnick Now Selling Zero-Day Exploits

privong

I'm old enough to remember this guy's moment in the sun by getting himself arrested. It was easy to fall into the "Free Kevin" mindset but now he's just trading on the name to make money. It's hard to keep that same "fuck the man" vibe when you become the man.EDIT: I realize he's been trading on his name for a while now but I was cool with it when he was a "white hat".

2014-09-24 17:32:18 UTC

vkb

The Surprising Path to a Faster NYTimes.com

danso

What really strikes me here, aside from the technical aspects, is the note on p. 21 about how the project was supported from the top because SEO was lagging as a result of site load time, and this line especially: "NYT became an e-commerce site since the last redesign."Once you are focusing on e-commerce and SEO as an executive team, are you still committed to journalism?

2014-09-24 17:32:44 UTC

pbreit

I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading

riveralabs

Since even lots and round numbers don't matter anymore in the stock market, seems a strategy would be to _not_ follow the $10-25 guide.

2014-09-24 17:35:00 UTC

dewey

Hosting for Node.js apps done right

kertof

No https and the login form is submitted in plain text. That doesn't really inspire confidence.

2014-09-24 17:35:22 UTC

jessaustin

What “technical” concerns do I have with systemd?

rossj

Why weren't any of these objections heard back before Canonical knuckled under? Was upstart even worse? I really enjoyed the "impotent rage" piece linked in TFA's comments.

2014-09-24 17:35:38 UTC

EGreg

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

Really excellent! I was glad to see that our platform does almost all of these out of the box by default.

2014-09-24 17:36:46 UTC

adnam

How to Squeeze a Huge Ship Down a Tiny River

sveme

Unrelated, bit it irks me that in 2014 there are three countries left that have not adapted to the metric system: Liberia, Burma, and the United States. So when I read"1,141 feet long with room for more than 4,000 passengers"I have to mentally translate it to:"348 meters long with room for more than 20-score passengers"

2014-09-24 17:36:59 UTC

jeffgreco

Warning – iOS 8.0.1 Update Breaks Cellular Connection

Jeremy1026

Can confirm on AT&T / iPhone 6 :(

2014-09-24 17:37:41 UTC

TheBiv

Indoor Location with Estimote Beacons

ljdk

Hmmm...9 points submitted 18 minutes ago and the poster's about page being "estimote.com"This looks like the HN vote manipulation filter is working pretty well!

2014-09-24 17:38:37 UTC

greenwalls

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

https://twitter.com/search?q=ios%208.0.1%20no%20service

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 17:39:32 UTC

pbreit

Make Dinner: A Home Cooking Manifesto

jcater

I sort of like the idea but it still seems too complicated for the mere mortal.How about the 100 best, simplest ingredients, easiest to cook?

2014-09-24 17:39:48 UTC

mrfusion

NGA releases high-resolution elevation data to public

liotier

Could someone write a program to find the perfect sledding hill near a location?

2014-09-24 17:39:50 UTC

thomasfl

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

Great list. The next time l make a mobile website, I would definitely consider using ionic. It's actually a css and javascript library for creating apps for ios and android with phonegap/cordova, but it can also be used for mobile websites.

2014-09-24 17:39:59 UTC

sebular

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

They like momentum scrolling so much that they put it on the checklist twice :)

2014-09-24 17:40:35 UTC

piratebroadcast

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Free BashBleed logo for tech journalists - http://i.imgur.com/ilJbM74.png

2014-09-24 17:41:12 UTC

arbuge

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

>>Facebook has found when engineers work together instead of in isolation interesting things begin to emerge.Well, let's face it, this is hardly a groundbreaking new discovery...

2014-09-24 17:42:42 UTC

andrewhyde

Gobble Promises to Help Customers Make Delicious Meals in 10 Minutes or Less

yurisagalov

Also note http://forage.co which is more of recreating the famous restaurant dishes (they do all the lengthy prep and then ship it to you to do the final prep).

2014-09-24 17:42:52 UTC

haliphax

JQuery hacked

anto210

Why do people do this rather than linking to a screenshot or something? By the time it comes up in my RSS news reader, it is almost always not in the same condition as when the link was posted.

2014-09-24 17:47:23 UTC

siliconc0w

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

Come on facebook, screwless design is oldhat let's see a fully automatic drive replacement system.

2014-09-24 17:48:22 UTC

jedisct1

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

Confirmed here... iPhone 6 with AT&T -> no service.Good job Apple, good job.

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 17:48:59 UTC

GhotiFish

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

That's a good attitude. If I find myself heading an open source project, I'll take that advice with me.

2014-09-24 17:49:58 UTC

qpleple

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

Maybe a fix: http://www.amongtech.com/how-to-fix-ios-8-0-1-no-service-iss...

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 17:50:37 UTC

arc_shrink

Using Pattern Recognition to Automatically Crop Framed Art

ilzmastr

If you ever took pictures of paintings at a museum with your phone (some museums do allow it, for example in Sweden) you would want an app that does what this post describes. It is clearly nontrivial to do it well in this type of processing aka blind processing. Author: check out the book by Cichocki.

2014-09-24 17:50:42 UTC

swilliams

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

Seems like it's hitting primarily iPhone 6 users. https://twitter.com/jsnell/status/514830848374214656

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 17:50:48 UTC

mwfogleman

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

Woah, mentoring Linus had a good day!

2014-09-24 17:51:28 UTC

zubairq

Introducing Elm Reactor

michaelbjames

Pretty nice. I actually have a big thank you to Elm as I based my Clojurescript time travelling debugger on the initial Elm demo!http://connecttous.co/connecttous/connecttous.html?livedebug...https://github.com/zubairq/coils

2014-09-24 17:51:44 UTC

loumf

Ask HN: From contractor to permanent

anpr

No.There is a world-wide shortage of competent programmers, and companies are starting to realize that irrelevant biases are hurting them.

I currently work at a Fortune 500 software company in the UK doing a lot of greenfield software development.Lately I have been considering leaving my permanent role and moving into contracting, mainly due to substantially higher net salaries.My concern however is; should I do this for a few years, and then wish to move back into a permanent role at companies such as MS/GOOGL/FB - would it be frown upon? In other words, do companies prefer to hire people that have been working steadily in a code base for prolonged periods of time?Thanks!

2014-09-24 17:52:23 UTC

THX_1138

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

Never upgrade.

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 17:52:47 UTC

Kipper100

Analyzing Programming Languages Using Rosetta Code

nkurz

This was partly copied by a study that Wolfram Research did on the Rosetta Code site...http://blog.wolfram.com/2012/11/14/code-length-measured-in-1...

2014-09-24 17:53:42 UTC

ChuckMcM

When It Comes to Facebook Scale, You Can Throw Out the Rulebook

coreymgilmore

Nice puff piece :-) The interesting bit is that if you're going to be servicing a lot of machines, then even if it costs you more to build/acquire them, you can get back more in savings in operating them. This is called "trading capex for opex." And while it takes a reasonably savvy CEO to "get it" the number of CEOs who just "don't get computers" seems to be on the decline (at least in spaces that use a lot of computers).In one way this also puts pressure on folks like Amazon since their margin on EC2 and other services is a mix of over-provisioning and opex savings, having other folks be able to do this is a win. Perhaps the saddest thing was talking with the HP "Gen8" folks (trying to sell me servers to replace my Supermicro ones) who don't get this at all. But for them they came from one server / one app not 500 servers / one app. I expect they could reclaim some market share that way but I don't expect they will.

2014-09-24 17:54:13 UTC

michaelmior

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

If the OP is here, great list! Also, this section is repeated: "Always use momentum scrolling"

2014-09-24 17:54:36 UTC

doughj3

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

I think this is great advice. While I've only contributed to a couple open source projects and haven't lead my own large ones, I completely agree. There's more to submitting patches than writing the patch- understanding contribution guidelines (code style, documentation, testing), responding to feedback, etc, these are all extremely important in actually contributing to a project. And having even just that little patch merged in feels great when you're starting out.Plus, no one wants to make a big helpful functional contribution only to be thrown away because they weren't aware of how the community operates. Small patches have a low risk as far as learning about how to contribute, even if the patch is rejected for whatever reason.Though this seems somewhat obvious, it's nice to have it stated and validated by the leadership of one of the largest open source projects.

2014-09-24 17:54:37 UTC

drzaiusapelord

How to Squeeze a Huge Ship Down a Tiny River

sveme

Scroll down to the Medusa Challenger navigating the Chicago river in 72.http://galleries.apps.chicagotribune.com/chi-20131028-st-mar...Talk about a tight fit. That must have been incredibly stressful.

2014-09-24 17:55:16 UTC

vezzy-fnord

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

Seems like it's good to remind people every now and then that Linus is a human with empathy, since a lot of them really don't understand the reasons for when he rants, and then start to draw conclusions.On a related note, Theo de Raadt rants need far more attention than they currently get.

2014-09-24 17:56:19 UTC

mmagin

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

The patch: ftp://ftp.cwru.edu/pub/bash/bash-4.3-patches/bash43-025

2014-09-24 17:57:29 UTC

on_and_off

Ask HN: Does Android-development-as-a-Service make sense to you?

petervandijck

It looks like what many agencies are already doing (for both Android and iOS), so it is definitely a viable business model. I know some startups that already have agencies working on their mobile apps (either Android, iOS or both). After some time though, they all want to develop their apps in-house.

My question: would it make sense to offer Android as a Service?Startups/businesses often don't do Android apps, but your audience likely is on Android. So I'm exploring this idea of doing Android as a Service.We would design + build + maintain your Android app, as a copy (but adjusted for Android) of your iOS app. The important bit is: it would be JUST AS GOOD, not a crappy Android copy but an Android app that feels Android-y and has a great UX.Doing this as a subscription service (not a project-based consulting service) would (?) make it much cheaper for you. And it would also mean your Android app continues to get love and polish after launch, which is what you'd want. You'd sign up for ongoing development at a fixed monthly price, and you could cancel anytime.I am looking for startups/businesses that have an iOS app but not an Android app and that think having a great Android app without tons of distractions, and at reasonable cost, could help them grow significantly.I want to discuss this idea. It may well be dumb (feel free to criticize in the comments). I'm probably missing a bunch of things.I wrote down some more detailed thoughts on a landing page here: http://getandroid.co/ (you can leave your email there too if you're interested in seeing how this turns out)

2014-09-24 17:58:54 UTC

Fastidious

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

Upgraded, everything works just fine. T-Mobile.

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 17:59:10 UTC

efuquen

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

Great attitude. Linus has had plenty of heated moments on the mailing lists, but 1) he's often right and 2) his venom is usually reserved for experienced developers that really should know better. Glad to him being so open and accepting with newbie kernel hackers.

2014-09-24 18:00:00 UTC

demetrius

Edit: A Relaxing Mix of Vi and Acme

qznc

A wonderful idea, but in the current state I can’t use it since it doesn’t support entering Cyrillic.In fact, vim doesn’t do the right thing with Cyrillic either (vim binds commands to entered characters, not keys; so when entering Cyrillic you either have to switch layouts when entering commands — or do some ugly hacks), but it’s at least usable. Edit is not, right now.

2014-09-24 18:00:25 UTC

Qworg

Ask HN: Suggest a Novel Robotics Project for PhD, Bio-inspired Direction

jmiseikis

I'd do doctor training or correction. An expert "extra pair of eyes" is a project I've not seen anything on.

I'm just starting my PhD with focus on bio-inspired robotics. I'm lucky to have quite a lot of freedom to choose the project I want to work on, as long as it fits the focus of the lab. Currently, the focus is on evolutionary robotics, AI, analysing the gap between simulation and reality and robotic surgery. Personally, I have quite a strong background in Computer Vision and loved working with ROS on my Masters project. The resources I have access to: - Two advanced 3D printers - Motoman SIA20 7 DoF robotic arm - Universal Robots robotic arm - Couple of high precision motion capture systems - Nao - Otto Bock SensorHand - Kinects, Leap Motion and other various sensors - People and doctors working at university hospital - Some FPGA experts... and of course hardware could be bought given a good project.As you see, it's quite a good opportunity, so I'd like to hear your opinions on what you would do in my position without actually giving my thoughts first. Quite crazy thoughts are appreciated as well! :-)

2014-09-24 18:00:33 UTC

rickharrison

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

Does android support the -webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch; property?

2014-09-24 18:01:07 UTC

happyscrappy

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

This isn't a problem on Android because you never get an update.

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 18:02:16 UTC

zak_mc_kracken

I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading

riveralabs

> Successful swing traders win only 50% of the time.Is this better than just picking stocks at random instead of carefully selecting them?

2014-09-24 18:02:42 UTC

nudgeee

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

Anyone with a problem iPhone 6/6+ on 8.0.1 want to dump the apple system log (asl) to see what's going on?

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 18:02:43 UTC

el_duderino

Jimmy John’s Confirms Breach at 216 Stores

el_duderino

List of stores: https://www.jimmyjohns.com/datasecurityincident/storedates.h...

2014-09-24 18:04:02 UTC

nkurz

Ask HN: Why are some topics automatically down ranked?

PythonicAlpha

I found both of your posts alive in the new list with no votes. They were at about 230 and 270 when I looked, so perhaps you just didn't look deeply enough. My guess would be that your posts "vanished" simply because they got no upvotes. I also found a slightly earlier post that (at this point) has 6 up-votes: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8361341It is true that some topics are penalized by the system, and some are automatically killed. Browsing with "showdead: yes" will give you a feel for which these are. Most of them are straight up spam, although some are good posts from 'hellbanned' users. The moderators kill or penalize things as well, but more commonly it's flagging by regular users that pushes hot topics off the front page. Yes, this can be viewed as a form of censorship, although "active moderation" might be more exact.I'm less certain about the silent hellbanning, but I think overall the degree of moderation is a positive. While there are costs, it's done an admirable job keeping HN usable and readable as it's grown. Not all news needs to be on the same site. If a post is divisive and unlikely to create useful discussion, perhaps it's better to keep the flames down by keeping it off the front page. While I'm sure there is some moderator prejudice toward specific topics (both conscious and unconscious), I think this standard gets applied fairly evenhandedly.Email sent to "hn@ycombinator.com" will usually get a quick response to questions about specific situations.

As it seems to me, some topics are automatically down ranked by the system or by moderators.Today some very important person won a rather important prize (I don't tell the names to prevent automatic down ranking of the system). I and (as I saw later) at least one other person posted the news that was in the press.But just one or two minutes later, both posts where vanished. I also looked 100 or so posts deeper, gone!I also posted a similar message again, since I thought that it was a system error. The same effect -- after less than one minute, the post vanished from the list. It is very unlikely, that the post aged so fast by the normal ranking mechanism. The other post also got one up vote from me, so it is even more unlikely that it vanished from aging.I don't know, why such posts are suppressed and what is going on. It is at the border of censorship in my opinion. Of course it could be some mistake, because similar news where around for some time ago -- but this news, I am talking about was definitively new and relevant!

2014-09-24 18:05:09 UTC

gmays

Without a keyboard

mooreds

What do you think about a new iteration of language? Words are cumbersome. Maybe it's gestures, maybe it's something else, but there's no reason we can't communicate thought or express code in it. Written language is just so ingrained in us (biologically and culturally) that it's how we think of things. How long until this changes? Will it ever?It's also interesting because the language we use shapes how we think. Is it possible for there to be a universal way to communicate in a way that's granular enough to replace words?

2014-09-24 18:05:10 UTC

DoggettCK

How to tell when a robot has written you a letter

Thevet

Realtors have been using these lately. Had to let my old house go back to the bank in a deed-in-lieu earlier this year, but within days of the MLS listing expiring with our realtor, we started getting mail forwarded to our new house that looked handwritten.All of them were offers from realtors wanting to re-list our house and try to sell it, and it wasn't until I got two identical letters, in identical handwriting, from two separate realtors, that I realized they were computer-generated.

2014-09-24 18:05:25 UTC

rahilsondhi

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

This is fantastic. Thank you!

2014-09-24 18:05:50 UTC

mackey

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

I just confirmed that re-applying the 8.0.1 ipsw through iTunes fixes the issue. Sounds like something is wrong with the OTA.

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 18:06:14 UTC

coherentpony

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

That, ladies and gentlemen, is how you grow a community.

2014-09-24 18:06:19 UTC

mindcrime

Ask HN: Why are some topics automatically down ranked?

PythonicAlpha

What prize? Was it the Fields Medal or the Nobel Prize for Physics, or the Turing Award or something? If so, then that would be weird. But there are quite a few other prizes that would not be particularly relevant here, given the guidelines and the cultural norms.Anyway, as far as I know, the HN mods manipulate the story list and rankings to try to keep the site focused on the things that the site is meant to focus on. Whether or not it is correct to call that "censorship" and whether it's a Good Thing or a Bad Thing is up for debate I guess.

As it seems to me, some topics are automatically down ranked by the system or by moderators.Today some very important person won a rather important prize (I don't tell the names to prevent automatic down ranking of the system). I and (as I saw later) at least one other person posted the news that was in the press.But just one or two minutes later, both posts where vanished. I also looked 100 or so posts deeper, gone!I also posted a similar message again, since I thought that it was a system error. The same effect -- after less than one minute, the post vanished from the list. It is very unlikely, that the post aged so fast by the normal ranking mechanism. The other post also got one up vote from me, so it is even more unlikely that it vanished from aging.I don't know, why such posts are suppressed and what is going on. It is at the border of censorship in my opinion. Of course it could be some mistake, because similar news where around for some time ago -- but this news, I am talking about was definitively new and relevant!

2014-09-24 18:07:00 UTC

jakewalker

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

I had this issue and was able to fix it:I did an OTA update (iPhone 6, AT&T) and experienced this issue. Touch ID wasn't working and "No Service" on the phone. I tried hard resets and resetting the SIM card, with no success.I was able to fix the issue by downloading the iOS 8.0.1 ipsw from the developer site, then connecting the phone to iTunes, holding down option while clicking on update, and selecting the 8.0.1 ipsw. Phone redid update through iTunes (not OTA) and when it restarted, all was fixed.Not sure how non-developers can get the .ipsw file.Not sure how I would explain how to do this to, say, my mother. Hopefully there is a more sensible/easy fix that comes out soon.

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 18:07:20 UTC

Sanddancer

CVE-2014-6271: Remote code execution through bash

vault_

Can someone with mod_security test a regex I wrote that should mitigate this? /\(.?\)\s\{.?\}\s\;/ from testing seems to catch any variants that I can think of that can trigger this bug, but I don't have a machine easily available to me at the moment to test with, unfortunately.

2014-09-24 18:07:44 UTC

verystealthy

Don't upgrade to iOS 8.0.1 or you may experience “no service”

greenwalls

Just upgraded via iTunes (not OTA). No issues whatsoever. iPhone 6 64Gb AT&T.

Many users are reporting on Twitter that it causes "No Service" and Touch ID to stop working. Do a search for iOS 8.0.1 on Twitter to confirm.

2014-09-24 18:08:05 UTC

cheepin

I Had to Develop an iPhone App to Understand Swing Trading

riveralabs

> It’s actually very hard to make money in the stock market!Can't you just buy an index fund, forget about it and come back to ~8% per year gain?

2014-09-24 18:08:11 UTC

bsimpson

Mobile Web App Checklist

coderzach

> This may change as mobile browsers are improved and optimized. In the newest versions of Chrome for Android, if you specify a special meta tag, you can animate a lot of formerly slow properties at 60fps.WHAT'S THE TAG?!

2014-09-24 18:08:24 UTC

ljosa

The biggest thing with small patches (2004)

ohmygeek

Ten years later, how is the Linux kernel community doing in terms of cultivating new contributors?

2014-09-24 18:10:30 UTC