skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How to Secure (ReSTFul) Web Services – The 3 Layers of Security
Google sets out plan a for the long term
In German law, clauses that forbid reverse engineering are invalid, the contract itself still stays valid, though.

UhrG Paragraph 95 and 69
Android buttons can have hints associated with them, so if you long-press on a button, a tooltip/hint will be presented (if the developer bothered adding tooltip text)
It definitely pre-dates the internet - I remember my mother and grandmother writing it in birthday cards at least 25 years ago.

Also, I know someone named Lol - apparently it used to be quite a common shortening of Lawrence.
Weirdly, the shortcut for this menu on Windows is......

drumroll please....

alt-F, like it is the File menu.....
>> The first thing I thought of involved the regulations and other troubles that Google was facing in the EU. Those troubles seemed to summarize as "Google is too big and is taking advantage of its large market share". Alphabet looks like it'll fracture the google businesses more, which might help reduce the issues they're facing in the EU.
> Well, Google is already quite fractured in the EU - it has something like 20 subsidiaries, one in most EU countries

Seperation at the marketing end for ad services, or for purposes of tax optimisation, does not really alleviate any of the antitrust concerns. It's the services that matter. Google's main ad business and search being in the same company for example.

So the current EU subsidiaries would not have an effect on the EU investigation, but this current plan might.
Or Iceweasel.

https://wiki.debian.org/Iceweasel
A U.S. "liberal" is very socially-progressive (pro-gay marriage, pro-choice, pro-environment, anti-racist, mostly pro-regulation and anti-corporate). I think that's the sort of people the parent poster intended to describe. In Europe "liberals" are usually pro-business and socially-conservative.

(Btw, I wouldn't say a U.S. liberal will automatically sit on the right of the European discourse, today. Traditional socialism has virtually disappeared as a political choice in Europe as well, so really there is very little disagreement today between a U.S. liberal and a European with mainstream social-democratic sensibilities -- except maybe on foreign policy.)
> its a right of a SOFTWARE mostly company to protect its software

They also have a duty of care to their clients

> open source is not always the solution

No one saying it is. Plenty of other proprietary software vendors protect their softwaqre in customer-friendly ways.

> reverse engineering something, consumes way more energy for the problems it actually solves

When a vendor like Oracle gives you no other option to solve the very real problems that your company has with the software, the "energy consumption" can be more than worth it, even it wasn't the ideal path in the first place.
R package txtplot.
This is incredibly helpful. I really appreciate you taking the time to write it and would definitely benefit if you wrote a full blog post about it.

I think I'm going to buy a used 2013 version as well and setup Linux on it. Thank you!
Or they're saying "so that the adults who supervise moneymaking won't bother the moonshot meetings at abc.xyz and spoil the fun with all their blather about next quarter's earnings".
I see that more as ESR's spin on things rather than being an accurate reflection of reality. He is, after all, somewhat biased in that direction.
Yes, a shady car service that in many cases does not have a price before hand, that does not take credit cards, that always tells you it will be there in 5 minutes (even if you'll be waiting 30+ minutes).
I took a look at nitrous.io. What's your opinion on it? Have you found that it provides you all the tools you need?
Meanwhile, in Brazil, Uber Drivers are being kidnapped by taxi drivers and get their cars smashed...
The death of diesel: From superfuel to fossil fuel
This attack wouldn't work. Scanning a QR code which goes to a non-WeChat URL will flip to WeChat's built-in browser, which looks very different from the payment dialogue box.

In any case, how are QR codes different from text URLs? Do you check the destination of every web link and/or button before clicking? Do you disable JS so that you can be sure that the URL displayed in the status bar isn't different from the one which will really be launched?
Employee Engagement That Works
I'm pretty certain that national law takes precedence over what someone put in a contract.

Example: It works like this for tenancy agreements in Germany. Your landlord can say that you're not allowed to change the locks all they want, and even if it's in the tenancy and you signed it, it's still null and void.
We are mad because for over 500 million Europeans Contracts can not restrict the basic right of decompiling.

So, she's telling legal bullshit just to provoke a fear in people that stops a totally legal practice.
G is for tax evasion.
This is misleading twice over. First, as a3_nm notes, this proof depends on unproven conjectures, and so this isn't proven yet.

Secondly, it is possible to do better than the Wagner-Fischer algorithm in certain cases. I figured this out myself and was about to write a paper on it when I realized that other researchers had beat me to it by a couple of decades.

If the two strings are equal you can establish that the edit distance is 0 in linear time, obviously. If you consider how the algorithm fills out the square down the diagonal you'll see that if there's only a one-letter difference you only actually need to fill out small parts of the grid around that difference.

This is generalizable, so the complexity actually depends on the distance between the strings.
Uninstalling and hiding that update only works until MS releases a new version of it, at which point Windows will unhide it and reinstall. It's not a solution.
SEEKING WORK - Islamabad Pakistan, Remote OK

Full stack web developer. Shipped complete projects for startups in SF.

Focus on UX/UI and backend architectures.

Python, Php, HTML5(Audio and Video API), Meteor.js, Riot.js, Node.js

$80 per hour.

Portfolio site w/ contact details:
http://thirdknife.github.io/
Anti-Social App Design
I see similar behavior on this website. First read the article before you start firing salvos.
Beware of Windows 10 DNS Resolver and DNS Leaks
I prefer ftalphaville's take: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/08/11/2137067/this-one-time-...

There is a massive but officially not permitted capital outflow from China that's pushing up real estate markets around the Western world. To some extent we're paying for our imported manufactured goods from China by exporting house ownership and rent payments.
> I don't use many extensions but I'm finding I have to use more as Mozilla remove features from Firefox.

To me, that's the way Firefox should work: a fast, lightweight browser, with a powerful extension system.

I get disappointed when Mozilla add "features" to Firefox, like PDF viewers, Pocket, etc.
The alphabet is better than planets because you can always throw in more Unicode letters, while those damn astronomers took away a perfectly good planet!
To me, this reads like a post explaining the benefits of free software by demonstrating the disadvantages of using proprietary systems. A bit hyperbolic at that, though.

RMS would have a field day.
Yes I find it very unfortunate that 99% of people's exposure to 'prototype inheritance' is JS's rather inelegant form of it. Though like many things with JS if you are disciplined it can be used elegantly.
And the cycle of gentrification has shown us that it's the low-income high-creativity people that raise the standard of living in a neighbourhood. Once all the students, musicians and architects-working-at-cafe-and-having-too-much-free-time are driven out by the doctors & architects-with-jobs-and-kids, the previously hip community sinks back into boredom.
Which medical tests are worth doing?
Spongebob out of water full movie
Building a Time Capsule – Guidelines for Preserving Materials [pdf]
Check Stagefright Vulnerability of Your Android
Anyone knows if anything similar exists for telephone numbers?

Edit: Found this two minutes later: https://github.com/googlei18n/libphonenumber, seems to be an official Google product and Apache licensed.
The Telegraph is using old fertility numbers, on purpose I guess...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fertility+in+africa gives 4.7 children per female, but I wonder if the average is weighted per contry population, as the high fertility countries have a very small population, and the highly populated one being way below that (exception for Nigeria).

And more interesting is the curve, falling.
One could say Sun read the tea leaves of the industry correctly, they just didn't couldn't shed their history quickly enough to execute on it. Cloud services are the new proprietary and Sun had begun building that shortly before Oracle came knocking.
Just iptables.
For those that care about language development on the JVM, the JVM Language Summit 2015 agenda (this is one of the talks) is here:

http://openjdk.java.net/projects/mlvm/jvmlangsummit/agenda.h...

And there is an You Tube playlist for the talks already

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLX8CzqL3ArzUo2dtMurvp...
Create super personalized pages with pure HTML
What do you mean by "moot"? The Born rule is simply that the probability of measuring a particle to be in a certain location is given by the squared amplitude of the wavefunction. This squared amplitude will generate the same predictions whether you are using deBroglie-Bohm or "Copenhagen" to imagine your underlying ontology.

The difference in ontology being that deBroglie-Bohm is deterministic, i.e. particles have definite positions of which we are merely ignorant, whereas "Copenhagen" is (usually) non-realist, i.e. it is not meaningful to talk about the positions of particles until the moment we measure it.
Stackdump – an offline browser for StackExchange sites
While this sounds interesting, the feature selection was done on the same data as the tests were conducted later on.

If I read it correctly, that's a biggie, especially given the weak outperformance of chance.
Not sure about the laws in your country but I am pretty sure that at least in most EU countries legal contracts between two private entities can not trump laws.

The parts of the contract that do are not valid and thus can not be used as an excuse to break the contract (revoke the license).
In practice, yes, the computation time required to compute edit distance will depend on the actual data. Similarly, 'sorting' a list that is already sorted can be done in linear time, and near-sorted lists can be sorted much faster than a randomly ordered list.

This is certainly useful in practice, but it doesn't affect whether the worst- or average-case complexity is quadratic. I'd like to see a quadratic (or exponential etc) time problem that couldn't be solved faster in many cases.
the same is true in a bunch of places in Italy.

And once a small town goes below some threshold, it becomes much harder to live there because of the lack of job options (e.g. in a big city you can more easily work as a psychologist, office clerk or barmaid; in a town of 300 people, of which 80 are in retirement, it's a lot less likely).

Also, many old manual jobs are shunned by youngsters, or have been mechanized/automated, so doing "what your grandpa did in the old village", is not generally a realistic option.
The layers would have to be transparent, which greatly increases the difficulty of the challenge. Unless, of course, the plants were grown using artificial light rather than natural light. In that case you wouldn't need a greenhouse at all, but instead a wall of solar panels to power the added utility demand.
Running a caloric deficit is the only way to lose weight.

everything else is only methods of doing this, and has nothing to do with the underlying principle.
So if Larry Page is King Azaz of Dictionopolis, then who is his mortal enemy, the Mathemagician of Digitopolis?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Phantom_Tollbooth
I'm not sure it is universally consistent with that. I saw it change for a Metro app in Windows 8.1.
Show HN: Shape-powered movie search
Wow. Really?

This single blog post is strong evidence for why you should never, ever buy an Oracle product, and if you are running anything written by them, why you should plan to migrate away.

Now, the culture of consultants in the Oracle sphere of influence is pretty toxic and money-grubbing. I can imagine companies being badgered into paying security weasels big bucks to analyze software with tools that cough up a zillion false positives, whereupon the weasel looks like a hero and is paid a bunch of cash, the customer panics and demands that Oracle fix a pile of non-existent vulns, and some department buried inside Oracle doesn't know how to deal. Whereupon the weasel skates off to another company to run the same scam: rinse, repeat, and this blog post.

In which case Oracle should simply call it out: "Please don't send us crappy automated scanning tool reports from the shitty security weasel consultant you hired because those reports are useless, and the same weasels have been sending identical ones in, monthly, for years, and you are being ripped off." But Oracle never passes up the opportunity to express contempt for its customers, nor can it admit to being wrong.

Better to avoid that whole ecosystem.
> Edit2: Seems like the blog was cracked. At least the "About" on the side seems to indicate that.

That's just the crappy Oracle blog platform presentation. Many of the Oracle blogs have that there, presumably a username.
Presumably it was chosen for ease of growing. If you can grow lettuce, you can move onto growing rice/potatoes/corn for calories, although all of those have larger space/water requirements and maybe stalk issues in microgravity.(+)

It's rewarding to the astronauts to be able to eat fresh homegrown food rather than years of mush and pills on the proposed Mars trip.

I also suspect that, as on earth, it's easier to pack calories into your diet (especially sugar) than a full range of nutrients, some of which decay in air or storage.

(+) One of the great advantages of hybrid wheat was solving the problem that bigger ears of wheat snapped off the stalk. In microgravity this would no longer be a problem ..
I must have misunderstood your original comment because "the highest average age" has clearly nothing to do with life expectancy.

Then again, why do you cite the average or median age if the original article is about life expectancy?

My corrected response to your original comment would be: Because the birth rates are so low that the lack of children "raises" the median age.
You're probably right, I was thinking back to my first real Linux learning curve with Slackware around 2000-2001. I dived in head-first and I'm glad I did, what I learned doing that built a foundation that has served me well.
> bookmark a page

Last I checked bookmarking a page is just clicking the star button to the right of the search bar. Though maybe Firefox on Windows has a different UI nowadays. You could also (still, thankfully) just enable the menu bar in Firefox.
As a quadratic algoritm, assuming 13 million base pairs can be solved in 7 seconds on a GTX275 (according to a paper on edit distance computation), is it correct to assume that 3 billion base pairs can be solved in (3bil * 3bil / (13mil * 13mil/7)) in 373443 seconds, or about 103 hours. Isn't that fast enough for a quadratic algorithm that samples DNA to be useful?
No matter how valid her points are, the tone is inexcusable in a public-facing blog, especially when discussing customer behavior. I recognize the strong points of Oracle's offerings, but let's not pretend that there is not competition from other, open software.
Because bad guys can just keep getting new certs when their old ones are revoked, unless you do identity validation (which costs money as it requires actual humans, so the certs can't be cheap or free).
> So those profits are worth little or nothing to you, both now and in the future, because you aren't entitled to receive them.

You invest in a company assuming it will increase its value over the time you hold your fraction of ownership. Parent isn't saying you're entitled to dividends, but was observing that the decision to buy Alphabet stock will likely mostly be made on the expectation of the money-making businesses continuing to grow, and only minor-ly on the hope that one or more of the ventures takes off and significantly increase company value.

Perhaps I'm reading it wrong but I didn't see an expectation of dividends in the parent's comment.
Line isn't bundled. It became popular through spammy marketing tactics (you can make free calls with Line!) then network effects. Kids can't use it (you need to prove you are 20+ and have a real cellphone number to get out of the noob garden), so I'm sure it won't be on top for much longer.
Easier to understand than the American/Imperial one :)
Happy Birthday – the Woz is turning 65 today
Glad to hear you've fixed that, then.
Yup. My English sister has been using it because she gets better quality voice than Skype. Maybe Wechat is winning because it's the better product.
I can't read your link unfortunately (get an SSL error when trying to connect), but that's interesting, given the sheer amount of trackable requests firefox makes silently in the background (like safe search/content blacklists from google, etc). Based on the goals stated by the iceweasel project, I assume they have not patched those things (as their goal is to be firefox-without-trademarks and nothing more).

I'm really disappointed in mozilla's track record on privacy. They always seem to choose features over privacy. See for example all of the patches sent by the Tor Browser developers for various info leaks that have been rejected as they would be inconvenient for average users.

It really seems quite pointless to work on a leak like this when there's so many others in the upstream that they refuse to patch (even if they have understandable reasons).
a possibly unforeseen side effect of end to end encryption everywhere is that it makes it far more difficult to man in the middle your traffic and hold companies accountable for their privacy policies

I don't think it's an unforseen effect, but one that is highly downplayed by advocates pushing the security angle. When it was revealed that smart TVs phoned home with detailed viewing information, including filenames, I remember making a similar comment - if they had used TLS, that discovery might not have occurred.

The ability to MITM your own devices is very important, if only so you can figure out exactly what they're sending out.

Another thing is the widespread use of enforced code signing, accompanied by pinning to specific (e.g. MS) CAs; if this had happened a decade or more ago, it would've been pretty easy to pinpoint the parts of the OS responsible and just patch them out. Now the same thing is likely still possible (theoretically, as long as you can change any byte on the disk it is), but involves plenty of bypassing other protection mechanisms on the way and could get pretty hairy if hardware is involved (e.g. secure boot/TPM.) From this perspective, remote attestation and the other upcoming security technologies are immensely disturbing. The desktop PC ecosystem is gradually being locked-down in the same way that mobile is.

These security mechanisms certainly have benefits, but their goal is ensuring that your software is completely unchanged from what the author wants you to have; in situations like these, that is precisely what you don't want. Nevertheless, I hope the hackers/crackers out there find a solution so those that are forced to use Win10 can still retain some privacy.
Yes, agreed. Especially if, after checking out the first 100 or so, all of them are false positives.

But the big difference is that it's realistic, allowed and in many cases warmly welcomed if you submit actual problems.
Nice, but what we really want is a way to do it automatically, like Dropbox.

I know Burcu Dogan was against automatic sync because it isn't 100% reliable in every case, but frankly she's wrong. That isn't a sufficiently bad con not to use it compared to the pro - it's automatic.
With Ubuntu, I had tried to launch brasero, the CD burning application, so I start typing 'bra...' and start seeing ads for women's bras. Thanks Ubuntu, that's helpful.
Isnt chrome already like this? I spent 45 minutes trying to find a way to install a non extension store extension this weekend and gave up after being blocked repeatedly.
Nebia (YC S15), a Shower Head Start-Up, Receives Funding from Tim Cook of Apple
The recent release of kubernetes into the public domain seems to align with this. Add to that Google's cloud services and you have infra that can be used by the independently spun off orgs.
Well, Overture was created several years before React came along (it actually predates Angular and Ember as well), so it would have been hard to make it as plugins to this! It's not actually as monolithic as it first appears: a small change to the build tool could easily let you just build the parts you want (e.g. just the view system, or just the datastore). Each folder inside the source/Overture/ directory is really a separate module. The dependency information between the modules is already in the files so that the build tool orders them correctly, so it would be a small extension to make it only include the modules you want + dependencies.

Basically, the library is perfect for us (and we think it's pretty neat; our web app is one of the largest, most complex and fastest out there, and the codebase is very clean). But we totally understand that the lack of more documentation, examples (or even books, tutorials and seminars!) compared to the popular libraries makes it harder for people to get into. We still wanted to put the code out there in case someone found it useful, even if only as inspiration rather than using it directly.

If you want to see an example of idiomatic Overture usage, take a look at the source of the JMAP demo webmail. It's fewer than 2000 lines of non-library code, and yet packs a lot in!
APP GROWTH STATISTICS and PREDICTIONS
Replacing React Mixins with Higher-Order Components
Mapping the fortunes of Silicon Valley
Calculate out what the projected hourly rate might be, after discounting the gains on a broad-based index fund.

If you can get 30% annually instead of 10%, that extra 20% on $10K would be $2000. If you worked just 200 hours in a year (seems a low estimate), that's a $10/hr "job" and you have a non-trivial risk of a substantial drawdown during the year that could put you near out of "business" (as happened in the article).

Borrowing on margin, you're going to pay at least 7.5%, so if you're borrowing to 3x, you're paying 15% on your account balance. (Small margin loans are higher rate.) - [1]

Forex doesn't have the margin loan problem, but you can't generate much income on a $10K yen/USD carry trade.

Round trip commissions will be a much higher drag on a $10K portfolio than a $500K portfolio.

If you have the talent to develop an algorithmic trading system that can 3x the market, you can make more than $10/hr in any number of easier and riskless manners.

1 - https://us.etrade.com/investing-trading/pricing-rates#margin
On Enterprise Software
The blog post is as authentic as a big pile of rubber dog shit. The faux-folksy patina does nothing to hide the utter contempt Oracle has for their customers.
What do you think post-text messaging will look like?
How Automakers Use a WWI-Era Camo Technique to Disguise Prototype Cars
But your application could store them there... I don't think the use case most users are looking for is to have a magic Drive folder that automatically processes purchase orders when they're added.

That's also not what the parent comment I commented on was referring to.
The Need for Agile Machine Learning
It still points to Schneier's blog post.