skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is a known attack vector. For a major company to use it is probably criminal, under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. There's no sign of an EULA here, authorizing them access.

Elsevier knows this is an attack. They published a book titled "Seven Deadliest USB Attacks", by Brian Anderson. So they can't claim this wasn't done knowingly.

Has anybody found out what the attack does?

[1] http://www.elsevier.com/books/seven-deadliest-usb-attacks/an...
We occasionally revisit the interview prep tool (http://ycinterview.com/), and that's definitely 15 minutes well spent. Communicating these things in writing takes longer by default though, and can take as much as you're willing to spend on it. It's hard to notice that you reached the point of diminishing returns.
That's half the justification. Aaand it turns out the justification doesn't hold against practice.

We're discovering that literally everything is better with Postgres. Mostly because instead of a single expensive point of failure, every app gets its own clustered PG pair. Because we can, because we don't have to think about licensing ever again.

Just everything not having to play nicely with anything else makes a huge difference.

The other nice thing is that PG is administerable by clear-thinking (and understand relational databases) non-specialists who can read a manual. You don't actually need big-ticket support unless you do.

And, guess what? Our Oracle support was most keen to offer Postgres support, because they too can tell which way the wind is blowing.

(PG 9.3 out of Ubuntu 14.04 repos. Failover pair with a primary and standby. Primary streams write-ahead log records to standby as they’re generated. Some script gaffer-tape to watch for primary failure and fail over (I think we haven’t ever yet actually had to invoke this). Conversions done by hand with ora2pg then faff and twiddling and unit tests. Gotchas: malformed sql that Oracle accepts but PG chokes on. All cobbled together just following the docs, almost certainly better ways to do all this.)

As for anyone else doing it ... we were buying AppDynamics (which is frickin' awesome btw) and talking to them about our plans to move from Oracle to PG. They said quite a few of their customers were thinking similarly. So maybe it's our own personal bubbles differing, but I think it's happening in at least some quarters.
This thread seems to be killed. See here instead https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10206169
the layers of meaning is interesting. The layers of this poem extend beyond the words into heads and popular culture. That most people read it in a way that, when looked at it logically, reads in another way makes a layer. This was mentioned in the article.

Is anyone being tripped up here or being tricked or mislead?
Amusingly you can change something in accessibility that adds a 1 and a 0 to the switches. For some reason I'm still unclear... Does pressing it make it 1 because I can see the 1 to press, or is it now 1 (yes). Android by default has off and on displayed. No idea how they make this work in languages where the equivalent words are longer.
People need to relax.. What is the world coming to?
An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp is good, and is available both from inside emacs in M-x info, and on the web at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html
Freebase is going away, now what? [pdf]
Yes I have an ipod and changed the font to thick and turned off the swoopy animations. You can do this via accessibility
Wouldn't have to be producing spl in the 100dB range (see comment below) just 80 to 86 would provide a salutary lesson. I'd take some.
I much prefer "An Introduction to Programming in Emacs Lisp", which is available both from inside emacs in M-x info, and on the web at https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/eintr.html
Unless the point was to think about it, perhaps the travelling of the road is what's important, not the destination.
Actually it does which is kind of the point, it's just those conditions are fairly easy to meet. The TL;DR: version is that if you use LGPL code in your project you have to redistribute the source code of that LGPL code including copyright notices. In practice that requirement can usually be fulfilled by simply providing a link someplace convenient to wherever you original got the code from yourself so it's pretty easy to comply with. Additionally GPL and LGPL differ primarily in that GPL requires that code that uses it must itself be licensed under GPL, where as LGPL allows non-LGPL code to be linked to LGPL code (so long as the conditions of the LGPL code are still being met, primarily the distribution clause). The big difference between GPLv2 and GPLv3 was mostly about closing some loopholes that some companies (primarily TiVo) used to make it impossible to modify certain GPL code on their devices (mainly this involved using hardware DRM). This obviously violated the spirit of the GPL because the whole point is to allow for people to tinker with the code, and preventing that by coupling it to proprietary hardware as a end run around the GPL necessitated the creation of GPLv3 specifically to make doing that a violation of the license.
...and five years later we justify to our peers "yes NodeJS was the right choice after all!"
What you list are features, not benefits. Eventually everyone will have SSD drives, if they don't already. Eventually everyone will upgrade to PHP 7. But for now, "The world's first php7/ssd wp hosting" is a lot more clear of a headline. Maybe move it above the fold?

Built-in caching might be a good differentiator, if you can prove that it makes your sites faster than WPE and everyone else.
Never mind, didn't see that it was LGPL.
When I saw the HN headline I wondered what "Hack the North" was. As a Canadian I wondered if it was to tackle "uniquely northern" problems, then went down the pessimistic path if it was for northern problems, it would be pretty douchey & ignorant to pretend that a bunch of brogrammers in a southern city could use their laptops to solve the social problems of a place where many lack safe homes & potable water.

Luckily, "Hack the North" is branding, and it makes sense if you're trying to attract an American audience, although if most of your attendees are from Canada, having them fly south to "Hack the North" is kind of ironic.

For anyone thinking about organizing a hackathon to solve northern problems: Make sure your hackers are actually helping solve problems and not trivializing them.
> Half the reason you go with solutions like Oracle is because of (a) enterprise support and (b) easy access to talent pool. PostgreSQL has neither of these.

If you need enterprise support for Postgres, there are vendors that offer it (EnterpriseDB is probably the closest to a "first party" equivalent.)
What you propose is a great way to do it. Especially if the justification is "the author said so, I'm not making it up".
used this in the past but nothing current. interesting to see but it does seem the DCMA request is valid considering what I've been reading about all the stripped gplv3 and other references to OP.
Now for somebody fork it from a recent pull and put in the required licensing and references as, from what I understand, this repo had nice improvements from the OP.
Just a matter of time now.
They will be available for use in Java 9 without requiring any special JDK build.
How Pinterest acquires mobile users through growth engineering
Early adopters and inverted social proof (2011)
Why is this post so popular?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10203474

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10203442

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10203425

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10203410

So many submissions, so few votes, zero discussion.
The way to handle an unhelpful resource is to flag it. Even better would be to submit superior resources. The ad homenim is unproductive because it just makes people dumber and makes mean behavior look normal.
Yes, I did. I'll edit it.

(...and edited)
Clip-On Handgun Attachment Makes Bullets Non-Lethal
"Making a thing type stuff when you plug it in" is an attack vector in the same way "sending a request over the network" is.
Well, (as seen in a few comments in this thread) the idea of the individualist ploughing their own way is strong - and the misreading fits in really well with it. I certainly used to follow this also. So I would get the idea from the poem via pop culture or an idle hearing in an advert, and that would stay with me. I wouldn't read it with the same attention as a literary person of course. Perhaps thats the false dichotomy?

I now have more delight knowing that it is a commentary about how, when dealing with a change, we can look into the future and see ourselves justifying our actions regardless of which action we take.
Configuring Nginx as a Front End to Your Node.js Application
There's a sector of the HN demographic that won't be satisfied until we're all living in a three-dimensional urban matrix of human-sized chicken coops. Many other HN readers aspire to something bigger and better than that, and the tone of your post may have sounded hostile to some of them.

That's not necessarily a good excuse for whacking the downvote arrow, but there are other excuses that are good ones, such as the ridiculously poor UI design of said arrows that make it too easy to hit the wrong one, combined with the Slashdot-era inability to correct an accidental moderation.
Weird. I didn't manipulate the URL so I figured if it had been posted before, HN would have just upvoted that post (like it usually does with dupes).

My mistake. I should have searched first.
Our third-party Oracle support were most keen to offer PG support. They can tell which way the wind's blowing.

(We haven't taken them up on it. We seriously can't see how we'll need it. But if you do need it, it's there.)
That is known as "form follows function" and one philosophy. The philosophy I stated is "form and function are one" which came about after the former.

But it's important to consider that form and function are not necessarily separate things and that beauty is not only decoration.

Read this article, in particular this [1] section.

[1] http://alistapart.com/article/indefenseofeyecandy#section3

And here's a nice quote:

“…users judge the relevancy of identical search results from different search engines based on the brand…Participants in the study indicated that the results from Google and Yahoo were superior to identical results found through Windows Live or a generic search engine.”
D3 within React the right way
I do think the loss of visual affordances was a mistake on Apple's part. But enabling Button Shapes does offset things quite a bit.

However, I do suspect that not all developers test with Button Shapes enabled. The native Twitter client looked a little "broken" for the longest time with Button Shapes enabled. It took awhile but I think it has been fixed.
seems a data-attribute would be more fitting? but I'm all about having something along with the img tag to reference CC etc
can unit tests be written for every use case that's known to work with the old method, and then used on every new replacement? People wouldn't even get to submit design changes like this unless it passes all known use cases.
Sounds like a textbook case of a feature that is not discoverable enough.

It is essential to understand that a feature is worse than worthless to the extent that users are not aware of it.
> Comparing flat UI design to Swiss design from the 50s is missing the obvious difference that minimal Swiss design was about presenting information, not creating an interactive interface.

What about Microsoft, one of the first companies to bring flat design to phones? Their motto for Windows Phone 7 was "Content before chrome".
Interesting idea.
I had actually thought about putting together a similar service for clients. Especially like the "guess for me" options.

Some feedback:

- You offer a trial, but that wasn't clear to me looking at your marketing/home page.

- It's nice to be able to see if not a full demo, at least screenshots of the product without having to register. This combined with the first point could deter some potential customers.

- Your payment form is very sparse. That's nice, but personally I want to know why I should trust you with my payment info. If you're using a third party processor such as stripe you might indicate that.
Question. Is stripping the authors names OK? Obviously stripping the license isn't, but does the GPL require you to "advertise" all contributors? I thought that was considered a problem with one of the BSD variants.
Thanks for this great tip. Again, another totally non-intuitive way to make Music 10x better.

Tangent: I wonder if people who work at Apple browse HN and see these kinds of complaints regularly? It would be weird to work at a big company that gets a lot of press on HN and stealthily get direct user feedback from a tech forum.
Does "If" have a popular misreading? My impression of it is that it's a poem to Kipling's son about coming of age, adulthood etc.r)
How I F@#ked Up My Startup Dream
Moonforth
As I said, I was talking about the basis in fact rather than in law.
One tip from someone that has worked with IR emitters/detectors: make sure your product can handle direct and reflected sunlight.

I'd hate to see you getting all the way through a kickstarter and then finding out you need to rework your frame to reject ambient and stray IR.
Thank you, such a great post, I'd like to try getting a certificate from expeditedssl on AWS next.
> But in a new social product, there is no social proof. The groups, if they exist at all, will be sparse and ill-defined. So with no social insights to be gained, what brings in the early adopters?

Or maybe they just want the cool new gadget and aren't actually busy trying to signal things?
The Brave New Watch OS 2: All You Need to Know About
Is the world running out of space?
There is thins annoying thing called security with such things as trust boundaries etc. So if you are creating a mildly secure web app the only permission your web apps db user has is to execute a subset of stored procedures and that is it.
My favorite mobile UI is still webOS. It got pretty much everything right that other UIs get wrong. Too bad it's basically dead.
Mind the Product
Show HN is reserved for things people can use, this is just a blog post duplicated on github and that is explicitly excluded:

https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html

For example, blog posts, email signups, and fundraisers
can't be tried out, so they don't count as Show HNs.
No point responding childishly.
(a) HN no longer results in a dupe upvoting the original.

(b) If the first submission (or obviously submissions, plural) don't see any action, it looks like the dupe is now allowed.

(c) No one else seems to search first, so I don't see why you should. My question is genuine: suddenly this is being submitted lots of times - where are people getting the feed from?

I get frustrated with the number of dupes on HN, there has to be a better way of dealing with the way they take up space. Still, I have not better suggestions.
While I'm open to seeing advancements in weapon and/or projectile safety this is a horrible idea. just no. from the stupid title to the actual implementation of the device to the assumed benefits. meh.
Not only that but people using 2 products with the exact same function but different form not only prefer using the one with better form but actually encounter fewer difficulties and have a better experience. [1] Or this bit [2]. Read the entire article, but this is where those bits were from.

[1] http://alistapart.com/article/indefenseofeyecandy#section7
[2] http://alistapart.com/article/indefenseofeyecandy#section3
The victimhood culture began in the US with the victim's rights movement during the Regan Revolution. Victims of crimes became more under the law than ordinary citizens. On this of all days, it is fitting to leave recognizing the scars of its evolution on the American psyche as an exercise for the reader.
Yes, makes sense... These units are accessible via (undocumented) intrinsics in some OpenCL implementations (or in GLSL), but, unfortunately, there is no portable solution. And the FP precision requirements in the OpenCL standard are way too high, even for the FP16 extension.
Simple: You don't have to confirm the first mouse and keyboard.
> And the iOS approach, though it has inconsistencies, actually makes a lot of sense, with the 'content is king' and 'depth through translucency' approaches.

I think that's the key difference. The 'content is king' approach is great for consuming visual content but less good for applications that are not about content consumption but about interaction. If I'm reading a website, I want the UI chrome to get out of the way and not distract me visually - on the other hand if I'm trying to reschedule something in my calendar I want the options and interaction points available to me to be obvious so that I can make the change quickly and accurately.
SpaceX Just Unveiled the Inside of Their New Crew Dragon Capsule
"You're good enough, you're smart enough, and doggone it, people like you!"
Man who speaks 19 languages – 15 minutes video
First Head Transplant Patient Schedules Surgery for 2017
The US Government Pressured a Small Local Library to Turn Off Its Tor Server
You get 42" versions from China for USD$118 each. I'd focus on the software improvements and benefits.

http://goo.gl/N02wRa
> GPLv3 doesn't impose any conditions on use.

This is not true, GPLv3 has use conditions which are conditioned on the target market of the product.

> This is LGPLv3, which has even fewer requirements.

OTOH, this is true.
Two points: 1) "The north" is an actual area, with unique technological problems, none of which involve southern Ontario. Canada has particular relationships with "the north" in areas from climate change to Native rights to arctic sovereignty. Canada even has a minister Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development. Waterloo is certainly not on his radar. "The true north" may be in the song, but you won't hear many Canadians refer to all of Canada as any north.

2) "Hack the north" suggests some sort of event dealing with northern problems. HackMIT is accurate because it involves MIT. It's not a call to hack (verb) MIT but MIT is a physical place an it is at least happening at that location. But MIT is not a region of the planet with unique circumstances. Would a HackAfrica or HackOceania event having nothing to do with African or pacific problems be appropriate?
Fallacies of Distributed Computing Explained (2006) [pdf]
Alabama Lawmakers May Reach into Pockets of Pornographers
The target market for Roundcube at least (which I have made some very small contributions to) is small ISPs, and outside of HN and a few other developer enclaves, nobody in the ISP market cares about Python or Ruby or whatever else is sexy today.

Wordpress runs on PHP. Drupal runs on PHP. Joomla runs on PHP. Ergo, ISPs know how to build servers that run PHP. Ergo, if you're writing software that targets the ISP market, you write it in PHP.
Yes, they do publish plenty of research, and thanks to the
Bayh-Doyle act they make a lot of money off publicically funded entities too. Those great discoveries are patented, and those licensing fees are making products expensive.

I'm not bashing the act; government wasn't getting the job done.

I would rather see something like a prize system in tech, and medical discoveries. For instance, we need a cure for a certain disease. The government could offer, say a 1 billion dollar prize, to the first company that solves the problem.

The discovery would then be required to open sourced to U.S. companies? Hell, it might prevent some companies from relocating overseas to avoid taxes? So instead of outrageous drug prices, generic drug companies would bring the price down due to competition?

(a little off topic, but relevant? Maybe not relevant towards gadgets, but relative to expensive medical cures?)

http://www.ucop.edu/ott/faculty/bayh.html
Usually data-attribute are reserved for custom or application specific uses. This makes it more general.
Same here. Firefox crashes completely as soon as I load the page, and Chromium says "Rats! WebGl hit a snag."
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See my other reply on this as well [1].

One interesting nuance here is that "content" actually refers to visual content. I think maybe that's why so many here are expressing their frustration with the Music app. The content in question is NOT visual, but the UI is still designed with the same UX philosophy that tries to emphasize visual content instead of favouring richer interaction.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10206240
I think android has a nice UI for this takes tow taps:
1. Select hour: http://i.imgur.com/0SZGvUA.png?1
2. Select minutes http://i.imgur.com/UOj43B6.png?1
Honestly, Steam's lack of support does not bother me. I remember what PC games were like before Steam: having a game that worked out of the box was a rare thing. Or calling a support hotlines that charged by the minute.

I get it, support is completely overrun. It's a tradeoff I am happy to make.
Interestingly, far more wood smoke is released into the air during winter than during peak fire season. If the stated aim is to reduce greenhouse gas emissions then from a cost/benefit perspective moving away from burning wood for heat to a cleaner form of energy makes far more sense than fighting fires.
mikeash I think you were really patient here. Any economist would agree you are correct that there is no practical difference except perhaps electoral spin. JoshT appears to be either trolling or trying really hard to make a point that has nothing to do with your question. I have nothing against his point, I'm not a big fan of taxes either, but it was clear about ten posts ago that he isn't really responding to you. I think anybody reading this finds it clear so, again, bonus points for your patience!