skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yep, this is another tool we built to help troubleshoot zone issues. We also use it to provide data for some parts of the DNSimple UI since zone.vision has an underlying API (http://api.zone.vision/)
Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman.
Travel Destination Finder - Destination.travel
> What I think might be a good idea is to convert old formats/format versions into newer smaller formats/format versions inside a VM.

Yeah, I like this. Like LLVM for fonts. Generate an intermediate representation inside a sandbox. Validate the IR. Output and cache a high-speed font for your platform. It might have all sorts of LLVM-like benefits in terms of compatibility and optimization, on top of the security win.
​Why Walmart's pay raise is backfiring
Another day another hack. At least they were smart and isolated photos from their other properties. Or lucky.
I saw this page two weeks ago, so it's not a new event. Don't know how long this page was up before that.
Verizon will drop phone contracts, end discounted phones
10+Nudges+To+Get+You+Motivated+To+Workout
The Idea Factory, by Pepper White
Premining,

Satoshi releases Bitcoin quietly to the world and doesnt ask for a red cent in advance from anyone despite creating one of the most important/innovative technologies of the last decade, and then disappears with his mined coins remaining for years unused and presumed lost.

Ethereum guys sell Ether(s) in advance (why for bitcoin of course) promising the moon and the stars in the form of a cryptocurrency + scripting

They put the horse before the cart IMHO, imagine if all those years ago Linus asked everyone to give him 18 and half million to develop Linux, would it be where it is now?
War and Peace Before 1945
Next generation apps for brands (or why Cannondale should buy Strava)
Hives are only swarming if in very good health, and even then both new colonies are more vulnerable than the former one... It's certainly not "every year a couple of swarming" (how would that be sustainable anyway).

If they have to split hives forcefully, it's because they are not healthy enough to do it naturally...
Same thing happened to Costco a few weeks ago. Maybe the same company behind both.
From http://www.costcophotocenter.com/

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As a result of recent reports suggesting that there may have been a security compromise of the third party vendor that hosts Costcophotocenter.com, we are temporarily suspending access to the site. We take the security of our members’ data seriously, which is why we are taking this precautionary step. This decision does not affect any other Costco website or our in-store operations, including in-store photo centers.

This situation is affecting multiple online photo sites. We are diligently working to determine when we can re-enable the site, but in all likelihood that will not occur until the middle of August. We will update this statement when we have more information.
I tried to use sidecar once but ran into ui bugs that didn't let me complete a purchase. Not sure if my isolated experience is representative, but I read "customer acquisition blah blah blah" - making the app work better could have helped.
Maybe Popeye eats cold leftovers.
The Memory Sinkhole [pdf]
Yes. Why? PGP through Enigmail. Also I don't have to be logged into Google's services to read my email.

Why would I not use an email client?
I've finally started reading the book after reading about it on every corner. I'm halfway through and it's really good. A lot of information without unneeded fluff.
GitHub Puts Open Code of Conduct on Pause
wow. I was not expecting that level of quality! I also did not believe one could caricature the classes of dns server so accurately.
That could be faked. The best way to ensure I'm not cheating is to watch the network requests and to look at the code (https://github.com/STRML/securesha.re-client/tree/master/jqu...).

You'll see the POST to the server going up encrypted, and the subsequent GET when you download the file coming down encrypted as a binary XHR.
Functional programming reinvented for JavaSctipt
I recently put together a collection showing the evolution over time of the top ridesharing/taxi hailing startups (using content from the Internet Archive) like Lyft, Shuddle, Uber, Sidecar, and BlaBlaCar [1].

One thing that surprised me the most when putting it together - Zipcar was founded way back in June 2000, well before Uber/Sidecar/Lyft, and is still around alive and well today [2]. I often feel like it does not get enough credit for helping to improve the transportation space, especially compared to attention given to Uber/this new class of transportation-focused startups.

[1] You can check out the collection here:
http://www.startuptimelines.org/collections/uber_lyft_taxi_s...

[2] http://www.startuptimelines.org/startup-timelines/zipcar/
Unions for example.
> How about allowing markets to operate as markets instead of a government handout to the wealthy and powerful?

How about neither. How about addressing inequality by pumping money where it belongs, down to the poor, lowering taxes on the 99%, raising them on the 1%, and fixing the source of all the actual problems rather than simply treating symptoms? Markets aren't naturally good and crony capitalism isn't either, they both need tamed.
I realize this is splitting hairs, and no comfort to the customer who is inconvenienced, but... I used to work at the periphery of the security industry, and the primary focus of retail security measures are directed at the employees. Notice that the highest concentration of security cameras in big-box stores are directly above the cash registers. There is equipment that simultaneously records the register transaction data stream on top of the security video.

I've encountered the same receipt-checking at Guitar Center on the rare occasion when I've shopped there, and GC's employees also work on some sort of screwy commission system that at least superficially resembles a sweatshop. I suspect that there are some kinds of fiddles that involve ringing you up for one item and walking you out the door with another.
I realize this is splitting hairs, and no comfort to the customer who is inconvenienced, but... I used to work at the periphery of the security industry, and the primary focus of retail security measures are directed at the employees. Notice that the highest concentration of security cameras in big-box stores are directly above the cash registers. There is equipment that simultaneously records the register transaction data stream on top of the security video.

I've encountered the same receipt-checking at Guitar Center on the rare occasion when I've shopped there, and GC's employees also work on some sort of screwy commission system. I suspect that there are some kinds of fiddles that involve ringing you up for one item and walking you out the door with another.
Thank you, this is a very valuable and useful comment.
Ask HN: Most popular sub-domains?
"www" is surely the most popular sub-domains, but which one is the 2nd most popular?

"blog, "dev", "static" etc. ?
> As there are many texts breathlessly extolling the virtues of monads, I had to offset that a bit ;)

That is an understandable impetus ;)
If the rich keep getting richer and the poor poorer, eventually either the poor will die of starvation or disease or the rich will die in the guillotine - History.
It should be why a minimum wage increase is back firing. Nodidy seems to think things through..
That's a nice one, especially the paste block workaround. That is my #1 least favorite security fad/flaw.
Not having success at the beginning isn't failing. It's learning.
Why Bitcoin news change rapidly
Here are (mostly) bots talking via Eliza by reading and sending a github comment on start:
https://github.com/botwillacceptanything/botwillacceptanythi...
It glosses over glue records, which it really shouldn't.
My plugin made it even worse: http://i.imgur.com/uSnzzHC.png
tl;dr: x86 processors have an ancient feature (unused by now) that allows to move the memory window of the APIC registers to an arbitrary address. By moving this window, it is possible to circumvent built-in hardware security checks and access the highly privileged System Management Mode (Ring -2) from Ring 0 Code.
Awesome.I sent this to my friend who doesn't know anything about DNS and he told me this is awesome. I wasn't expecting that.
This seems like the best answer here. Everyone else is coming at it from a pentesting perspective, where this is actually has a developer perspective, which is far more useful for someone actually building an application.
In Dependencies We Trust: How vulnerable are dependencies in software modules?
San Francisco's PD has an 'Instagram officer' and hiring tech-savvy cops
Ask HN: Liability due to lack of SSL
I have family member who sells stuff online. As part of his checkout experience he asks for CC info as well as SSN info on a HTTP website. I am trying to explain to him why this is bad, but he doesn't really care. What can I say to him factually that might help him make the investment in SSL (and not storing PII in SQL db) for that matter.
It entirely depends on how you want to program your GPU. If you want fine grained control, you should really use raw OpenCL/CUDA. If however you need something higher level, it may be better to choose one of a number of DSLs that are available. E.g. Haskell's accellerate (for array programming), a DSL from the Delite/Forge project.

For general purpose high level programming however, there isn't really anything acceptable. Skeletal/pattern based programming is covered fairly well with frameworks such as SkelCL or SkePU, however (from what I've seen) there doesn't seem to be a nice functional, or even procedural general purpose language for GPU programming.
We host the our files temporarily there.
Literary Theory: An Introduction, Terry Eagleton
Radiologist here. Not too worried about watson reading cat scans anytime soon. image segmentation is not a solved problem. Deep belief networks have been doing image classification, not segmentation. I welcome more competition in the radiology Pacs business though; which I think is all this is.
Educational video of what the Crossrail project is with a lot of details on the Tunnel Boring Machines.

http://www.crossrail.co.uk/construction/tunnelling/meet-our-...
I have no idea where you got the idea that people in Finland use fixed wireless. The OECD graph is few years old anyway. Here are the most recent statistics from three months ago:

https://www.viestintavirasto.fi/en/aboutthesector/statistics...

The access methods by popularity are: xDSL, cable, Ethernet, FTTH and others, which might include some obscure fixed wireless operators using Wimax in the 3.5 Ghz band.
It is a weird mode of thought we have, comparing humans on a one-dimensional scale and thus effectively devaluing them into numbers. What does that say about us? It may be useful to see such an expedient in articles on businessmen and their money, I suppose. But when one encounters it in publications on someone's contributions to knowledge and culture, it is out of place.
Set of Powershell Scripts to Debloat Windows 10
I've never read the book but searched for it on Amazon, "8,283 of 8,919 people found the following review helpful":

http://www.amazon.com/review/RKBQAAIIRUO5X/ref=cm_cr_dp_titl...

"(1) It takes more than 4 hours a month in the gym to have a great body. I'm sorry, it just does. Mr. Ferriss recommends performing 2-3 SETS, for a total of less than 30 reps, per WEEK, to get a great body. Ask any athlete, bodybuilder, trainer... not enough. Not even close."

"(2) Almost all the supplements recommended in 4HB have never been scientifically proven to do what Mr. Ferriss claims they do."
Both Japan and the US have requirements on what temperature and for what duration meat for raw consumption is stored. Most chicken in the US isn't meant for raw consumption, so it isn't handled that way; so Sashimi chicken in Japan is safer than most raw chicken in the US. You certainly can buy safe raw chicken in the US, but that's not what most of it is. It's not a matter of the animal itself, it's a matter of how it's handled.
Good idea. Too many these books these days read like a long-form magazine articles (or blog posts) that have been stuffed with fluff to get to a book-length.
Project Astoria in Action: How to Install Android Apps on Windows 10 Mobile
Failing is good as long as you learn something out of it "fail, learn something and be proud of what you learned".
5 Tips on Breaking Your Rental Agreement
ISP's could be doing a better job of looking for/blocking out these shaddy DNS servers. Until that happens, workaround is to setup all devices to not rely on router provided DNS.
This is exactly what I was getting at, thanks. :)
Quantum Computing Since Democritus, by Scott Aaronson. It covers an astounding amount of stuff -- including complexity theory, the nature of randomness and information, and quantum information theory -- into less than 400 pages.
It's different if you're using a tool (e.g. pep8) to ensure coding style. You can tell it to ignore long lines, or you can configure it to have a "better" line length than 80.

Telling it to ignore all long lines means absurdly long lines are accepted too, but configuring it for a particular number makes it a hard limit. The best option is to pick a number that is a good trade-off.
Like others have said about this happening to Costco too, this is all because CVS, Costco, Sam’s Club, Walmart Canada, and Rite Aid use PNI Media as a backend for their photo services and PNI seems to have been hacked:

http://krebsonsecurity.com/2015/07/cvs-probes-card-breach-at...
Radiologist here. A chest abdomen pelvis cat scan I routinely read as about 500 axial images at 2.5 mm slices. Then there is a comparison or two or more. Then there are different phases of contrast for the liver, kidneys. Then there are coronal and Sagittal reconstructions. I easily look at an average of 2000 images per patient.

Voice recognition software autocomplete is about as good as your phone's autocorrect...
In just 2 years, Zynga’s daily average users have fallen by half
If they don't want competition, they should at least provide the latest technology at a reasonable price...
CouponMate: Browser extension that automagically applies coupons at checkout
Similar. Utah. BBQ place. Woman orders her bison well done.

The cook owner comes out, says he will not do that, she will have dust in her plate, not meat. Bison is just too dry. She insists. He says no. This goes back and forth just a bit, then he offers to cook her something else well done.

IIRC, she accepted that offer. I really respected him for that (and agreed): Sometimes the customer is completely wrong and it is better for the owner for the customer to either change their mind or leave.
http://www.pcistandard.com/card-association-fines/ might be a starting point? (I don't know if it actually applies in this case though).
Carphone Warehouse in customer data breach
Ireland, the example shunned by krugmanites, has followed the IMF/ECB advice and is in better position than it was in 2008.
Yes. Thankfully, that's never happened to Google yet.

/s

The worst part is that we don't know that it's happened until someone figures out that they're being MITM'ed.
"Technical subjects" is too broad to get started. But if you are serious about wanting a high signal to noise ratio, you want textbooks and monographs. Landau and Lifshitz' series on theoretical physics; Knuth's Art of Computer Programming; that kind of thing.
Agreed, I would imagine for someone who doesn't know about glue records, the "road trip to ns1.dnsimple.com" must be super confusing since it doesn't explain how to find their location.
That is a cool plugin. Thanks for clueing me in to it.
Learning About Humanity on Public Transportation (2013)
How servers work: https://xkcd.com/869/
If your livelihood depends on a clean machine and you commonly need to use untrusted networks, you absolutely need to use a VPN.

The only problem is with the shoddy crap we call operating systems, very difficult to have them maintain radio silence until the VPN is active.
Ph.D student in medical imaging here.. It is not a question of if but when. I'm sure factory workers thought they would never be replaced by robots.
Pretty much any of these: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...
The author is either ignorant of economics or intentionally misrepresenting the facts to advance his pro-union agenda. I can't take his piece seriously.

He ignores the fact that rent control causes housing not to be built and so raises prices for everyone who doesn't already have a rent controlled apartment.

Reagan was elected in no small part because of the high unemployment + inflation under Carter. If the 70's were so great would Carter have lost to Reagan by 10 points? If Reagan was so terrible would he have been reelected in a landslide in 1984?
Thats like saying the dotcom bubble was a scam isn't it? You can certainly phrase it like that but is that really whats going on. An actual scam?
I think the reviews are off the mark, as you can go a substantial distance with the free version of burp, and none of the material strictly depends on burp--any intercepting proxy will do.

Similarly, the online stuff is totally optional, and none of the master WAHH crafstmen I know have needed that in the slightest.

It is pretty clear in reading those reviews that a person can, with no investment of time or effort, write bad reviews about anything.

It takes effort and energy to get the most out of WAHH, and you can do it without spending an additional dime.
No, it certainly isn't something to cheer, sorry if it sounded that way. I just have this general sense that the huge gap in public opinion on outsourcing & similar matters is almost completely aligned with each individuals income or place on the financial hierarchy - while the lower and middle class are raising an alarm, the well compensated professionals generally have a "tsk tsk, should have got a real education" attitude, or at the very least "there has always been new jobs created, and there will this time as well".

I'm fortunate enough (so far) to still have one of those high paying jobs, but I worry a lot about not just myself but for society in general. To me a very likely natural progression is that as the power of technology increases, it will be the well connected monied class who either harness it to make themselves even more wealthy, or at the very least use the courts to protect themselves from harm. So in that sense, while it is unfortunate to read about your brother, at the same time it is encouraging in a strange way that the one profession that you'd think would use the legal system is also being hurt by technology and outsourcing. But it is also discouraging in that it shows once again that those in power (and already have more money than they know how to spend) are willing to even throw "their own" over the side of the ship in the pursuit of even more money to add to their pile.

The world is becoming increasingly bizarre every day from a financial perspective. Yesterday I was reading a community bulletin board and see a handwritten "for sale" ad for some household items (plates, scarves, various knick knacks) for like $2 to $10 per item - the whole lot might be $50. That'll buy you like two days of survival, then what? Of course it's good to recycle, and I'm not saying the seller needs this money, but when you can probably go to the dollar store and buy all of those items brand new for the same or lower price, it's kinda like what's the point. Last night I figured I'll sell my old cell phone that I paid $700 for a few years back, spent over an hour wiping it, etc and then check craigslist for going rates, I'll be lucky if I can get $75 for it.

All these things kind of invoke a feeling of cognitive dissonance in me, know what I mean? To me the world just seems in many ways to be in almost a logically impossible state of equilibrium at the moment. From everyone freaking out about "peak oil" 5 years ago, suddenly we have massive oversupply of oil and commodities, and it seems plausible that it may remain that way for a very long time, if not indefinitely - which again, could be good or bad depending on your lot in life.

How does it all end?
How to Solve It, by Polya.
potentially cdn.*?
Cool concept.

This is Shopify specific, or .. ?

Does it support both percentage and dollar-off discounts?
I don't think a mega-compilation of the Western Canon is what OP is looking for...
It doesn't sound simpler or cheaper to me. If you include the price of the phone, it can easily end up being more expensive. And they still have a different cost for people bringing their own phone...
You can eliminate 1 by self-hosting your VPN and possibly 2 with some configuration magic to have the work stuff accessible from your own VPN.

3 is actually a bit of a problem, AWS IP ranges are notorious for being widely banned.
The dwarves of Auschwitz (2013)
Process and Reality: An Essay in Cosmology
by Alfred North Whitehead
With respect to the comment Some of the cheat sheets are ok, the very best of them is the XSS material contributed by rsnake.
Rush to Put Death Records Online Lets Anyone be 'Killed'
I can't find it now but I seem to remember this came up in response to another breach ~24 months ago. At that time they made an announcement to the effect that from then on you'd no longer be able to have your password sent to you if you forgot it, but that you would instead need to use an account recovery key.

I took that to mean that prior to being pwnd they had been storing passwords cleartext and would no longer be doing so.

Also, the wording about allowed special characters seems to be incorrect. I personally have a non ./-/_ special character in mine. Unless they are doing something terribad like silently discarding noncompliant parts of the password.

Re: password length - at least 32 characters is respectable. I believe last time I used outlook.com they had a max length of 12-16!
Are there applications of this technology in other areas of radiology as an automated second opinion? Would the culture of Radiology welcome such checks or would it be seen as a threat?
Thanks for clearing that up!
People tend to judge affordability based on repayments, not prices, so lower interest rates mean you can service a much larger debt for the same monthly repayment.

Where housing is scarce prices are determined by availability of credit more than anything else, so "you can" rapidly becomes "you'll have to, otherwise you'll be outbid by somebody who will".

Over the long term it's a shitty, negative-sum game for everyone except the banks.
I would skip the Steve Gibson stuff altogether.
Ignore those reviews. In reality, Burp is to web application security what Photoshop is to graphic design. There are alternatives, and people do use them, but if they do it's because they already know how to do the job.

Burp is the industry standard. It's also a criminally underrated dev tool. If you're getting paid to build web applications, you should own a license.
I think the author is kind of mixing some different effects

1) The switch of bargaining power from workers to capital with Thatcher and Regan. I basically agree with him at least in the UK and US. Less so in places like France.

2) High asset prices - largely due to very low interest rates.

3) Rents to wages. Outside of popular cities like London, NY, SF I'm skeptical it's got much worse. I don't have that much data but here's a graph for NZ for the time period and it kind of goes up a bit and down a bit without much of a trend.
http://transportblog.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Rodney...

4) Rent to income in NY, SF, London

In the old days where people worked in mostly industry and agriculture it made sense to be where that was happening. Now when a lot of people are information workers it makes sense to go where the smart people are at so everyone piles into the top cities even if it means packing twice as many into an apartment as used to be the case.

So if your rents so high relative to your wages it's probably because you are in a popular location with a restricted supply of property.