skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You have a username created by mashing the keyboard, a brand new account, and your only comment is inflammatory and calling someone a shill and mentally challenged. Something about that doesn't instill the highest confidence level in your opinions.
I doubt there is such a flood of false positive reports from customers misusing static analysis tools as the article complains about, but as far as Oracle wants to do something about them minimizing the cost of writing off a report as a false positive is the only rational solution. (Complaining about reverse engineering is not rational.)

Investigating analysis tool reports once and for all is the only way to minimize this cost. You seem to neglect various cost-mitigating factors:

- Reports from different tools are going to hit the exact same spots in code, for the same reasons, making the marginal cost of analyzing the report from yet another tool low and decreasing and making the matching between support tickets and known false positive reports very easy. Closing tickets as vague would also be easy.

- Reports for version N and version N+1 of the product are going to be very similar. Likewise for version N and N+1 of a static analysis tool.

- Only popular (and good) analysis tools deserve up-front usage before releasing products. Others can be run only after someone files reports, and for the most unlikely ones being unprepared is the best choice. There's no value in a strawman like complete coverage of all possible tools.

- Static analysis tools are useful. Using them thoroughly would provide significant value beyond the dubious niche of reverse engineering support tickets.
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I count 10 graph paper notebooks at arms length as I type this. I use the wonderful Japanese Maruman Mnemosyne notebooks and a fountain pen. People think I'm nuts, maybe I am but the combination brings me great joy.

http://www.jetpens.com/Maruman-Mnemosyne-Inspiration-Noteboo...
Can one commission Jepsen analyses from Kyle? Or is it more a matter of hoping he'll do it on his own?
Look at the direction of TPP, which mandates stronger copyright but has optional public rights:

https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20150805/15521431864/why-d...

"...the copyright section includes thirteen "shall provide" and just the one measly "shall endeavour." And if you add in the enforcement section you get another thirty eight "shall provide" and just a single "shall endeavour" buried in a footnote unrelated to the key points in the document.

So, for those of you playing along at home, the message being sent by the TPP is pretty damn clear: when it comes to ratcheting up copyright and setting the ground rules for enforcement everything is required and every country must take part. Yet, when it comes to protecting the rights of the public and making sure copyright is more balanced to take into account the public... well, then it's optional."
You'll be delighted to hear that this news is widely reported: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10043432
Isn't that what QE is supposed to do? Expand the money supply in order to increase inflation?
I'd be inclined to say abc20xyz
Don't just assert that.

I sincerely believe that most people overestimate (or pretend to overestimate) the value of journalism, and I'm curious about why you think it isn't so.
The wiki page was in response to the XMPP bit of http://matrix.org/blog/faq. Coincidentally Matrix is a Wave-like protocol that hasn't been shoehorned into XMPP.
Why do exploits tend to have such ridiculously good names recently?
How big is the droplet?
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Could you describe a bit more about your job? I am currently in training. Any advice would he helpful. I am thinking of doing an PhD.

Edit:
Let me rephrase that: can I PM you somehow for more details and questions?
Modern rubbish? These things have been around for decades.

App Stores are just repositories by another name.

Secure apps are just signed binaries.

Cloud computing is just, "pay someone else to host your shit" same as it always was.

I'm not the person you replied to but I share his views. I use all of these 'modern' luxuries but in my case I'm in control of them.
The release commit is really the best:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/9gx377scddhxo95/Screenshot%202015-...

All I can say now is: ༼ つ ◕◡◕ ༽つ Got RELAY
VP9 producing the same quality as x264 at half the bitrate is hard to believe. Do you have a citation? Which `--preset` for x264 are you basing this on?
I can anecdotally agree with him. I ran a service that did a lot of media encoding and VP9 is very, very slow to encode.
Using Django-Importcsvadmin to Streamline Excel Imports
The media loves good names so they can spread their fearmongering.
ughh....why not turn that into a business. Seems super legit.
>then people tend to spend more as money is losing the purchasing power.

They spend on smaller things, and are losing the ability to spend on bigger, long term things like cars, houses, education, starting their own business, etc.. I lived though different levels of inflation - USSR and Russia of 199x - and i can say no inflation is good. The inflation we have right now in US - 2 times in 10 years - is among the lowest i've experienced and about the best economic environments.
I'd recommend Yocto to build a system and toolchain for your target, but it's insanely painful to do anything beyond building a precooked recipe for a known embedded target.

Installing an ARM toolchain is simple now. Don't build one unless you really need to (or you install Yocto).

apt-get install gcc-arm-linux-gnueabi
I'm more a fan of the No Code of Conduct (not to be confused with the awful action movie of the same name):

https://github.com/domgetter/NCoC

..at least when it comes to the hacker ethos, which is something, IMO, we should all strive for. Think of it as the WTFPL of the "thou shalt not" world.

More to the point, I really fail to understand why documents like the one Github is working on are necessary. Most FOSS projects I'm aware of are quite adept at dismissing dickery in all its forms, rather than adopting a futile (and controversial, and agenda-driven) approach to defining it.

(Huh, someone already did something that's a lot more like the WTFPL. Predictably, it's rather acerbic: https://github.com/ciafwywcoc/ciafwywcoc/blob/master/CODE_OF...)
They ship customized kernel and drivers for obvious reasons. That's the real deal.
I have to disagree. I use those from esslingen and usually max out my downlink. (Which is depending on time of day usually around 50MBps, also from where I connect due to lower grade routers)
Not to mention 4% over 10 years would halve the value of our debt; if the national debt were truly a concern for the far right, then they would be pushing for a monetary policy that encourages a bit more inflation. As it stands, though, 'the debt' seems to be dog-whistle words for 'cut social programs'.

A monetary policy that encouraged a bit more inflation would necessarily free up cash to pay for more social programs and reduce the real value of the debt. Instead, the debt is being used to champion austerity for programs that help the poor.
Sadly, I don't know. I don't like Chrome either.
Thanks for the very interesting post. What sort of companies are providing the supply chain / logistics management/optimization consulting services that you mention (or is it mostly done in-house?)? Are any focusing on serving Asia?

I wonder if there's a good startup opportunity in this industry in Asia; many firms possibly haven't figured out the application of mathematics/ops-research to their supply chains yet, at least compared to the level of top US firms.

Logistics (delivery) startups are burgeoning in Asia, but no doubt will face these issues soon - maybe specialized mathematical expertise will help.
That was her one redeeming statement in that blog post. :)
Donations for U. S. elections cannot come from foreign nationals[0].

[0] http://www.fec.gov/pages/brochures/citizens.shtml#prohibited
Regarding of company domain names, I respectably disagree with Paul,and I agree with Ev
http://evhead.com/2011/06/five-reasons-domains-are-less-impo...

Maybe I'm wrong, and it's most easy to "my mind" accept Ev idea.
Why would the NSA monitor everyone in the world but not its employees' activities on their internal databases?

Did you really just ask that?
I paid $50 for downloadable software once which did one of these things that I needed done for one single document, once. [+] You can certainly charge for these. (n.b. I got my start in business with software which turned a random number generator into PDFs. My sense of it is the market for your product is orders of magnitude greater than the market for mine.)

[ + ] There was a document holding up an insurance application holding up a $X0,000 consulting engagement. That's not the typical case in business, but businesses broadly speaking do have more money than you can possibly imagine to throw at solving real problems.
What does their "customized kernel" do? (Besides having a few wifi drivers built in)
The article as is right now, won't be shared as much as could have been if it had objective tone. What I've seen a lot of people do is make a useful and objective argument about what the message they're trying to convey and then maybe at the end mention their message briefly. That's how people build credibility. Check out all "Crunch Network" posts on TechCrunch. Even though most of the writers behind those articles do have agenda (they all have some stakes in the subject matter), a lot of those articles are useful. Since the content is useful, a lot of people share them and there's no lost credibility.
The Oracle blog post already has an extensive ongoing discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10039202
Show HN: ExCode, a site to show algorithms in any language (in progress)
TL;DR Kali Linux is now a rolling distribution, which pulls packages from Debian testing.
Musings on Custer's Last Stand (Oracle and Veracode) (2011)
I liked the idea, but personally, 6$ looks like a lot of money.
I use Syncthing for most of my cross-device sync'ing, but I haven't yet found a good FOSS solution for sync'ing locally (local folder to external hdd, mp3 player, another local folder, etc).

There were a few posts on the Syncthing forums requesting it as a feature but they didn't really get anywhere:

https://forum.syncthing.net/t/possibility-to-sync-local-fold...

In the mean time, I'm using GoodSync for sync'ing locally:

http://www.goodsync.com/download

It works quite well for that purpose, but since it's proprietary I'm not comfortable with blindly trusting it to sync my important files over the internet.

Still waiting for that perfect open-source p2p sync app that can also do local sync'ing.
NSA not required. Our politicians are immune to insider trading laws: https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2015/05/07/congress-argue...
Synergy is a terrible model for supporting open-source projects. While the project is very useful, the lead devs basically begged the community for years trying to support full time developers on what honestly started as a very small tool (although the compatibility issues are many). They made to pay to put in bug reports or vote on which issues were important to you. The devs eventually got a bunch of donation money and then they wasted it all on an office and full-time employees with zero revenue. After using community donation money as seed funding for their new business, they decided to start charging for the installers. They also removed resources that aided distribution in an effort to get more people to pay them.

There are tons of open source projects that dwarf synergy both in scope and lack of funding, yet synergy somehow needs thousands of dollars, over and over. In my opinion, they are trying as hard as it can to close down the GPL project so they can make even more money.
Look up the story of the State of Oregon's failed healthcare exchange. Set up by Oracle.

Last new I'm aware was Oregon sued Oracle for $200 million.

"Oregon sues Oracle over failed Obamacare website"
http://fortune.com/2014/08/22/oregon-oracle-spat-200-million...

Oregon’s suit, filed Friday in state court, alleges that Oracle, the largest tech contractor working on the website, made falsely convinced officials to buy “hundreds of millions of dollars of Oracle products and services that failed to perform as promised.” It is seeking $200 million in damages.
Lenovo modifying Windows OS files from BIOS to install Lenovo software
It's more like comparing to Top Gear than Ferrari...
They purposely make it difficult and even removed documentation on building synergy to boost sales. You can find nightlies here: https://synergy-project.org/nightly
danluu knows much more about the subject matter than me. Meanwhile...

If I take the main.cpp from http://www.strchr.com/media/crc32_popcnt.zip that he comparing and paste it into a new, default, VC2010 project. Then compile it as a Release build, then the mixed disassembly for the inner loop of POPCNT_HardwareSubbuN() looks like

cnt += __popcnt(*(DWORD*)buf) +
__popcnt(*(DWORD*)(buf + sizeof(DWORD) )) +
__popcnt(*(DWORD*)(buf + sizeof(DWORD) * 2 )) +
__popcnt(*(DWORD*)(buf + sizeof(DWORD) * 3 ));
00E71BE0 popcnt ebx,dword ptr [edx+8]
00E71BE5 popcnt esi,dword ptr [edx+0Ch]
00E71BEA add esi,ebx
00E71BEC popcnt ebx,dword ptr [edx+4]
00E71BF1 add esi,ebx
00E71BF3 popcnt ebx,dword ptr [edx]
00E71BF7 add eax,ebx
00E71BF9 add eax,esi
buf += sizeof(DWORD) * 4;
00E71BFB add edx,10h
00E71BFE dec ecx
00E71BFF jne POPCNT_HardwareUnrolled+50h (0E71BE0h)

which looks to me to be as good or better than his inline asm

00000001000013c3 popcntq %r10, %r10
00000001000013c8 addq %r10, %rcx
00000001000013cb popcntq %r11, %r11
00000001000013d0 addq %r11, %r9
00000001000013d3 popcntq %r14, %r14
00000001000013d8 addq %r14, %r8
00000001000013db popcntq %rbx, %rbx

And does not have the odd

000000010000133e movl %ecx, %r10d
0000000100001341 movl %edx, %r11d
0000000100001344 movl %eax, %r14d
0000000100001347 movl %r8d, %ebx

He was complaining about.

Maybe there's some compiler issue about arrays that makes using "int cnt[4];" as the accumulator induce the seemingly extraneous movls?
There's Firefox forks like Waterfox, Palemoon, etc.
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I think at this moment it's fair to say that switching to Pale Moon is the next obvious step for power-users in need of fiddling with their browser as they please.
Tell HN: Kevin will comment on more Show HNs this Friday
YC partner, designer, and master of friendly feedback Kevin Hale is going to do another round of Show HN comments this Friday, starting at 2pm Pacific time. If you'd like to hear Kevin's thoughts on your project, post it as a Show HN on Friday.

The last times he did this went really well (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748308) so we're excited to see it become a thing.
> Not that ethanol is drinkable

Ethanol is eminently drinkable, in fact I enjoyed some with tonic water and lime just the other night.
I should clarify, the site doesn't automatically convert code from one language to another. It's just meant to organize code from many different languages together.

So, for example, you can see how quicksort might be written in each language (http://excode.io/code/7/quick-sort/swift) assuming someone has uploaded the relevant code
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> I hope that's not the mentality of the military today, that special forces operators in the field need to remember UI/UX details of the software they use...rather than the software developer adding in relatively simple safeguards, such as confirmation boxes.

Those aren't mutually exclusive alternatives. Special forces operators (and soldiers more generally) need to understand the operational characteristics of the equipment they actually have.

This does not mean that suboptimal UI/UX in military equipment shouldn't be addressed, it should.
I don't even understand the point of this part:

>Our open source community prioritizes marginalized people’s safety over privileged people’s comfort. We will not act on complaints regarding:

> ‘Reverse’ -isms, including ‘reverse racism,’ ‘reverse sexism,’ and ‘cisphobia’

> Reasonable communication of boundaries, such as “leave me alone,” “go away,” or “I’m not discussing this with you”

> Refusal to explain or debate social justice concepts

> Communicating in a ‘tone’ you don’t find congenial

> Criticizing racist, sexist, cissexist, or otherwise oppressive behavior or assumptions

It's one of the only CoC I've ever read that specifically condones some forms of harassment. No harassment should be acceptable. I've already switched to gitlab and I'm about to go through the list of projects that use this CoC and make sure I don't use their products anymore.
The main difference is that laws in China generally prohibit the buying of foreign currency (except for importers) -- causing a situation where Chinese companies within China have to exchange the USD/Euro/Whatever currencies they receive for exports in to yuan. In Europe/the US, companies and citizens can hold on to that foreign reserve, which means that strong-handed efforts to peg a currency can rapidly tank the value of the local currency as confidence wanes.

In China, there's no escape from the Yuan, so citizens just have to take the devaluation and loss of purchasing power.
It's not up to BMW. It's up to trademark law. And trademark law is quite well established in this context that there's no issue.
Ignoring suicide, I think there is still value in reducing needless stress so students can focus on learning.

My college doesn't have counselors, and I wish it had,if only to help me navigate the stupid bureaucracy that adults insist anyone should be able to navigate.

Instead, I find myself more comfortable and less stressed at my actual job, so it's not just that I'm "coddled", or that I expect to be sheltered from how the real world works.
This is a bad faith (and/or woefully ignorant) argument about this code of conduct. Remarking that "reverse racism" is not harassment does not preclude minorities from being harassers. It does mean that having (for example) a group dedicated to black people's concerns and telling white people that they are not welcome (or that their opinions are lesser) is not harassment.
So has Ember and many others.
Late night screwup. Sorry!
The idea is, since it's a development db, after you destroy it, you can recreate it easily.

But there is a way to do it without destroying the db. When you're finished, stop postgres, copy the files off of the ramdisk, and then you can destroy the ramdisk. When you want to start it back up, create the ramdisk, copy the files back, and then start postgres.

Obviously something like MySQL's memory tables would be a better solution.. but postgres doesn't have anything similar. So this is as close as you can get.
I need to know what is the future of mobile app development?
I am planning to switch from php side to mobile app development side. I need to know what is the scope of android and ios app development.
Do you honestly believe we should restrict their ability to vote based on your preconceptions about their understanding of the world?

Edit: I do agree that lots of people don't posses the quality of information to make good voting choices. I just think that isn't a good justification for disenfranchising people.
> [...] GET, POST and DELETE will cover 99% of your requirements.

Hardly. There's no search in these. You end up putting your query either to
URL, which is hideous, or to request body, which is awful.

The only HTTP verb that can sensibly carry anything beside "create",
"destroy", and "retrieve" commands is POST. This equals to operation
"manipulate". And guess what? Plenty of remote interfaces use at the same
time many operations that can be called "manipulate". Sticking to merely HTTP
verbs is way, way too constraining.
Stuff Apple Fanatics Say… ;)
> Most FOSS projects I'm aware of are quite adept at dismissing dickery in all its forms

Depends on the projects you work with. Some are good at maintaining a great community (Rust, for instance), and some are quite awful at it, or actively cultivate a hostile community (by welcoming awful people into it with open arms).

There are enough awful people who know how to code that it's worth stating up front that "this project doesn't accept awful, hateful people, no matter how interesting their technical contributions". Because otherwise you end up with projects where "well, we'd kick them out, but nobody else knows how to do what they're doing, so...".

See also http://www.slideshare.net/dberkholz/assholes-are-killing-you... .
"VP9 encoding (using libvpx) is horrendously slow – like, 50x slower than VP8/x264 encoding. This means that encoding a 3-minute 1080p clip takes several days on a high-end machine. ... libvpx multithreading [encoding] performance is deplorable. It gains virtually nothing."[1]

1. https://blogs.gnome.org/rbultje/2014/02/22/the-worlds-fastes... n.b. x264 comparisons were taken with `--preset veryslow` which understates x264's potential performance by an order of magnitude. From the same link: "it can be fast, and it can beat x264, but it can’t do both at the same time."
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Because, as an entrepreneur, the absolute last person on earth who I trust to understand the importance of startup investment or innovation is Bernie Sanders. From what I can tell, he's basically a 1960s liberal/socialist. He wants to bring back unions and make them strong, increased government regulation on just about everything, and I'd be very surprised if he was pleasantly disposed to anything in the sharing economy.

Having done a startup myself, and now as an investor, taxes have already gone up from 15% to 23.8%. It appears to me that Sanders' solution to everything is higher taxes on the rich (investors). He wants to raise the capital gains tax, he wants to raise the estate tax, and he wants to eliminate the cap on the payroll tax so that rich people pay an extra 12 or so percent on top of the combined ~40-50% of taxes they already paid, combined state and federal.
86% of my business calls are unanswered because I don't want to talk to you. So no, I don't want you texting me instead. :)
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