skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The terrible thing is what have they been doing with people's password :-) if the DBA, some random offshore $1 per hour guy working for this hosting company was able to read the password in plaintext, he/she could have hack the accounts or sold them to people well before the compromise. Do people ever wonder how identity thief can happen? Unsafe transaction leaving greedy and unethical people selling information to organized criminals... no duh.

Like the other commenter said, sadly, 000webhost and many were very popular back in mid 2000s during the Great PHP Frontier goldrush. I had used it, but luckily I was using a ghost email address that couldn't tie back to my real identity, so the best people can do is add that password to a list of known password database.
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Not that I agree with their use in education, but "a lot more versatile"? I can't think of anything that a chromebook can do that the iPad can't but I can vice versa. The only advantage I see to a chromebook is a built-in keyboard (and price)
FWIW, I stopped using it years ago, and the thing I noticed is that FB is a good way to keep you fresh in peoples minds. Other than that, it's a great way to have something to talk about when you meet, since your life is a mystery to them.
> XML is for encoding general data.

No, it's really not. XML is a markup language, not a data-encoding language. JSON, S-expressions, ASN.1 &c. are all data encodings; TeX, LaTeX, HTML and XML are markup languages.

> TeX is incredibly powerful, but it's also incredibly idiosyncratic.

Agreed.

> I also personally think Computer Modern is an ugly font.

Eh, it's not great on-screen, but it looks pretty good on paper. But TeX & LaTeX have supported multiple fonts since the beginning.
There's ways to be reasonably sure. I can't publish it as it would only aid opponents. Here's the base requirements, though:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10468624
Syncing everything to the cloud may be great if you have an unlimited plan, but as long as each GB costs around $10USD these kind of initiatives will have a very limited impact.
Unfortunately you're blocking people self-hosting piwik.js too.
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Prepaid credit cards are a very valuable tool for anyone using the AWS free tier of service. Its an extra layer of protection if you ever do get DDoS'd.

No, I don't care if it means amazon doesn't get paid for the bandwidth consumed by an attack. Sometimes all I care about is not getting a 10k or bigger bill at the end of the month for what was advertised as free. IMO they really need a way of automatically shutting down VMs that go over limit instead of just charging the credit card on file.
The people doing it as a sole source of income are people that don't have many other options
Might be fun. My spare-time projects fully support Plan 9, why not muck around with another zombie OS? EDID parsing should be easy, but the USB stack will be painful. And supporting "real" video hardware would be a pain. I'd have to figure out if it can run it on some hardware I own first, though.

Realistically, though, this is likely to fall by the wayside, since I only have so many hours a day coding, and enough of it is spent at work.
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This story from last month comes to mind: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10430862

I suspect hiring this company would make even a large budget wilt a bit. Just a bit :P
More surprising to me than this article was the fact that Bloomberg has spiraled off a completely different brand for editorials/commentary/opinion. It amazes me that Bloomberg View which bears the Bloomberg brand has no clear explanation of what it is, and that it is only commentary.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloomberg_News
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That's a fair reasoning. I'm just saying that this is not opendata for me. And calling yourself opendata is misleading in my opinion.
You missed a word! It's actually
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Yes probably to the OEMs, like I said, but I suspect in the future a current Windows consumer will be able to upgrade pretty much any version of Windows to the latest for free.

People see the OS as free these days. They get updates to their iPad, iPhone, Mac and Android (kind of, depends on the OEM) without having to pay.
this snipcart link is full of tracking:

https://snipcart.com/blog/ad-blockers-saas-web-developers?ut...

"clean" it to:

https://snipcart.com/blog/ad-blockers-saas-web-developers

by:

https://github.com/diegocr/cleanlinks

for Mozilla Firefox
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You really should publish, as security through obscurity only hurts us! Out in the open, there is a chance that some measures will be taken. Concealment is a guarantee that bad guys will be doing bad things quietly.
If it's your personal project, shove CloudFlare in front of the AWS site.

Also, they have http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonCloudWatch/latest/Developer... but like a lot of things with AWS, it's ridiculously complex.
While the solution going forward is most likely to go back to dumb terminals (thin clients, if you prefer) I think just putting it in "the cloud" as it stands today is not the solution. Granted, it's not very clear what they are offering, but it does appear to be a gated service (think Dropbox) rather than an open technology (think HTTP). It just doesn't seem to solve problems any better than what's already out there, but I'd be happy to be proven wrong.

Personally, what I'd like to see is mainstream software bundled with https://ipfs.io/ technology. If content could be served via a DHT plus all the extra things IPFS offers, we'll be a lot closer to a world where content doesn't get lost. At that point I'd gladly pay a company to store my personal files (by simply giving them a list of hashes which resolve to my computer so they can download them), and trust that it's safe because they were encrypted on my end and the company is just ensuring that the content can be redownloaded should my computer explode.

On a sidenote, IPFS would also solve a lot of problems with public data, where everything can be reliably synced (and even updated with IPNS) for people with no persistent access to the Internet (and people on space stations or the Moon or Mars, should we ever put bases on them).
The information blocked had nothing to do with tracking and privacy. It's a page that displayed the customer's sales performance within the application itself. So it IS "totally unrelated to online privacy issues"
Reportedly a mixture of automated systems, user reports, and manual work by facebook employees.

See the 'How Fake Names are Flagged and Targeted' section of this article: http://lifehacker.com/how-to-use-a-fake-name-on-facebook-wit...
Maybe humidity too.
Oberon is a pretty interesting system to muck with.

Another approach is to blackbox USB and HDMI, and consider them outside the project, much like the VGA monitor or whatever is in the keyboard to send PS/2 signals. You can connect to spare IOs on the FPGA board with 'blackbox' hardware, as long as protocols are simple and open.
Yes.I would imagine Z. just signs whatever the lawyers produce for him to sign after the meeting. I wonder what the outcome will be now? Doesn’t this ruling just give the lawyers the right to sue and they now have to prove the compensation was excessive?
rdl works on security at CloudFlare. What do you do?
We (Amerihub) craft custom data transit solutions and manage the networks and tech assets for a lot of medical and manufacturing clients in the Chicago area. This could have HUGE applications in those spaces.

I signed up for your beta via your site. We want in asap.
My first love too. I still like to go back and play around with it.
Excellent article - thanks. If you do a follow up, I'd love to see some performance comparison between the two approaches.
Yeah, I understand that it's possible to configure alerts so that you are notified when your account goes overlimit, but for pet projects, I don't want to be notified and expected to respond, I want it to just stop the server. I don't see them ever actually implementing this though because it wouldn't bring in any additional revenue.
> If you're looking to learn C, or you've ever wondered how to build your own programming language, this is the book for you. In just a few lines of code, I'll teach you how to use C, and together, we'll start building your very own language.

Agreed on "a few lines", but why should I buy a whole book on this? I'd really appreciate if the OP tried not to hijack hacker feeds for promotion. At least in my book, (s)he is blacklisted for eternity.
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I feel kind of bad for Mark here.

There is an entire cottage industry of firms that will do nothing but look for ways to use these types of procedural errors to extract money from companies.

There are law firms whose sole form of income is to have hedge funds send them their daily trades so they can cross reference them against companies who had to restate earnings, the implication being that if hedge fund A owned some stock during the period where the firm had released the improper numbers and when the firm refiled then the fund can claim they were fraudulently mislead into buying the shares even though the refiling might not have mattered at all.

As to the second part of the story about private companies, this is something that alot of people are trying to figure out.

The last 5 years have been defined by private companies "disrupting" things where they try to have their cake and eat it to.

- Want to be a taxi when it works for you but don't want all the rules, regulations, laws and taxes taht go along with it? No problem, just pretend there are no such thing as taxi laws.

- Want the benefit of people to work and the ability to define how they do their job for you but don't want to bother yourself with things like payroll taxes, workers comp payments, no problem just declare that you don't have contractors or employees but some new form of worker. The IRS just ins't smart enough to see your vision...

Now we have companies who want the benefits of being public

- access to capital as they need it

- ability for founders to cash out their shares

- rising share prices to entice employee's with so they won't focus on the below market wage you pay.

but don't want to petty baggage that goes along with it:

- how dare someone short my company and point out its flaws

- I and only I will pick my share holders,

- I don't want to release earnings of any kind to my shareholders, I only want true believers who won't worry about things like profit.

- Why are people asking about earnings, just look at my growth numbers and those numbers only.

I think most people agree that there needs to be some reform to make it easier for companies to go public but if companies think that being "disruptive" is a technique that will work with the SEC, then that's one battle I don't think silicon valley will win.

Or put another way, for all of Silicon Valley's impact over the past 50 years, its had about zero impact on the process of companies going public. When companies go public they all play ball by Wall Street and the SEC's rules.
Children are children. The rules that were discussed in the article demonstrate an adversarial environment of dominance and control.

I'd act out, you'ld act out.
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if you really want to learn to build lisp, please lookup "lisp in small pieces"
http://www.amazon.com/Lisp-Small-Pieces-Christian-Queinnec/d...
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Hmmm. I'd pay very careful attention to the fine print on that. The way their scheme works is that each node chooses a random time to start its transmission, which means that all their chipping sequences are hopefully desynchronised. Then the AP tries decoding from all possible starting points at once. If I'm understanding spread-spectrum correctly, each parallel receiver pulls out only the signal from the node (or nodes) whose chipping sequences are synchronized with it, while all the other node's signals appear as noise to it.

Which is the catch. Run too many nodes at once, and the signal-to-noise ratio will rise and your signals will start to fail to decode. What this generally means is that nodes at the edge of the network - the ones with the lowest SNR budget - start to drop out first. I'd be interested to see what their link budget and range is with 1600 devices on the same node, or conversely how many devices they can fit on a node at the advertised link budget and range. (Also, just how well they cope with a mixture of near and far nodes.)
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Highlights for me: npm3 and ES6 spread operator (no destructuring assignment yet though)!
I found this webpage with a video of the weld in action:

https://iml.osu.edu/vfa-welding

Very cool stuff - I'd be interested to see some non-theoretical strength test data and more application-ready packaging.
People buy cars to drive for them, because nicer cars get better reviews, and there is a minimum age for acceptable cars to drive (different in each market) - https://get.uber.com/cl/financing/
Sadly, no. I never bookmark or save articles as I come across them. It's a pity, as I've been searching for one specific article which compared our energy use with the total solar energy absorption of the planet (iirc, we were using more than 50% of total input).

As for your question, I doubt that they would include an all-vegan world scenario, as it's considered unattainable, regardless of whether it would theoretically help. Technological advances are generally included, but with very conservative gain estimates.
That's a mainstream mantra but not true at all against High Strength Attackers (HSA's). They always have more resources than you do. They more they know, the more they can focus. That's why obfuscation on top of proven security techniques is the best strategy for use against HSA's. Gotta give them nothing (or false things) to aim at then have good detection or recovery measures. Proven strategy.

Alternatively, I can publish my model. They can immediately move to counter the very specific things I do. Before you know it, they have a turn-key solution for compromising my devices individually or in bulk. Anyone using it is suddenly less safe. Knowing specifics will also benefit their stealth: less detection capability.

Rather not publish that at least until I've developed something better. ;)
Actually while I agree that copyright length is an issue, in this case copyright should actually encourage the studios to release these films. If they have the only copy of these films and they were out of copyright then they would have no incentive to ever release them. If you own the only copy of something then making it public domain does not allow the public to view it.
if you wanted to replicate Apple's technique, there's a neat (but discontinued) app on the mac app store called phosphor that will take in movies or frames and output in the apple-like canvas/json/jpeg 8x8 pixel blob format.

https://www.divergentmedia.com/phosphor

Whether you actually gain anything from using this technique as opposed to other simpler techniques like canvid, well, let's just say YMMV
‘Breathing battery’ advance holds promise for long-range electric cars
VS Code is actually based on Electron (formerly Atom Shell)
So is this now officially the "mainframe 2.0" era, with endpoint devices now being dumb terminals again?
Available on Ubuntu as android-tools-adb which installs fast, that's how you know it's not JRE. :P You can also install a terminal emulator app if access from PC is not a requirement for you.
And in 2010 "nobody" will be in Facebook.

I've been watching this social media lifecycle for 30 years. No, Facebook isn't "too big to fail" any more than the dozen other "too big to fail" forums, all of which failed.
Apparently (I don't work in that space) it's very useful to system administrators that Chromebooks are essentially stateless and fungible.
You can read the book online. Beyond that, if by hacker feeds you're referring to hacker news, you may notice that the author of the book and the submitter are two different people. Finally, do you really think it's unusual for someone to use hacker news for promotion?

Save the "blacklisted for eternity" melodrama for a worthy cause.
I do not really see what the "problem" is. One can easily define a unique (up to translation) "rotation-free" coordinate system that all observers will agree on, without any reference to "fixed stars" or the rest of the universe.

Centrifugal force in a rotating frame is an inevitable consequence of a universe in which conservation of momentum exists. Conservation of momentum is an inevitable consequence (by Noether's theorem) of a universe in which translational symmetry exists (i.e. the laws of motion are not different at some displacement dx). By all observations, all three of those properties hold for appropriate choices of frame.

You cannot suppose a universe with both translational symmetry and symmetry under rotational movement; the two are in conflict. If conservation of momentum holds in some coordinate frame, then it will not hold in coordinate frames that are rotating relatively to it.

If you suppose a universe where a "rotating" reference frame is the one where conservation of momentum holds, then I would be forced to ask "rotating relative to what, if not an inertial frame?" And the inhabitants of such a universe would still certainly find it meaningful to label that frame as "inertial" and define rotation as relative to it.

If you are asking how we tell rotating and non-rotating reference frames apart, the answer is trivial-- non-rotating reference frames obey inertia and rotating frames do not; and there is no ambiguity or disagreement between observers. If you are asking why there exists an inertial reference frame at all, the answer is that this arises from translational symmetry. If you are asking why the universe has chosen a particular coordinate frame to be "non-rotating" over any other, the question seems rather meaningless, because it does not make sense to define rotation except with respect to an inertial frame.
DCI 4K (4096x2160, very similar to consumer 4K) has been the standard resolution for digital intermediaries in the film industry for a couple decades now. Due to the popularity of digital compositing and color grading, that's going to be the maximum effective resolution of any major film made in the last 15 years or so.

("O Brother, Where Art Thou?" from 2000 was the first digitally color-graded film, and IIRC this also makes it the first live-action film where every single frame was digitized.)
I think they wouldn't. That's why I find most of those objections silly - they're just something people got used to. It's like every time Facebook improves their UX, there's this huge uproar about the fact they dared to change things, but it dies out within a month as people get used to the new look and are still happy.
https://youtu.be/W1pvUlQgYtk
No it's like that wine is available for everyone to buy anyway (via HTTP) and people are arguing that perhaps the bottled version (via non-HTTP protocol) should be age limited while keeping non-bottled version as is.
Wirth wrote a lot of papers on it. I look some important ones up, from OS's to HW, then post them for you if you want.
A built-in keyboard is huge for the classroom. Chromebooks in classrooms end up being used largely for written work (typing long essays, creating presentations, etc.) that an iPad is less amenable to than a laptop.
Agreed. It makes it a bit easier to do something like publish your public key and have it available not just when intermittenly online, but somewhat longer.

Basically it makes it a bit easier to layer your special application on top of the mainline DHT, help your peers find each other, and make it a bit easier to publish some metadata about your peers.

That way you can take advantage of millions of nodes in the DHT and not just the ones running your special application.

But if you need stronger guarantees or availability those should come from your application, not the mainline DHT.
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> "NO ONE DID WHAT WE ENVISIONED. SO WE STARTED FROM SCRATCH."

Yet you were the "senior vice president of software engineering for Apple." You were in a better position than almost anyone else to "do what you envisioned." What stopped you? If you could not do it at Apple, why will you be able to do it at a startup?

The ability to start a startup is a new bargaining chip for high value corporate employees. Why build an innovative feature at your company -- and give them all the money -- when you could just leave and do it yourself, and keep all the money?

There is a moral hazard for corporate employees that poses a large risk to corporate innovation. If an employee at a company stumbles upon an innovative opportunity, it can be economically sensible to for the employee to avoid implementing it, in preparation for a future startup that will attract easy VC money.

The best solution to this is probably just for big companies to grant more and more stock to employees to keep incentives aligned.
http://winsupersite.com/mobile/power-people-low-end-tablets-...

They have a very low cost license for OEMs that sell cheap devices - those get upgraded to Windows 10 for free. I can't find a source for Win 10 licensing but I'd be surprised if they aren't continuing the zero dollar licensing for a subset of devices.
Amazon'll still come after you for the balance, including collections. It's possible to set up billing alerts in CloudWatch - set them up at 50%, 100%, 150% and 200% of average monthly spend and it's hard to get too shocking of a surprise.
I'm almost certain the way you've read it is correct.
Python 2.7.10 (850edf14b2c7, Oct 29 2015, 17:32:05)
[PyPy 4.0.0 with GCC 5.2.0] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>>> π = 3.14
File "<stdin>", line 1
π = 3.14
^
SyntaxError: Unknown character

Are you sure you weren't trying it in Python 3 (or PyPy3) rather than PyPy?
I disagree. The author (she?) has spent what looks like a lot of effort in building a introduction to at least two areas of basic software literacy and, assuming the book is even half way reliable (quick look shows no obvious horrors) then this is a worthwhile addition to the "how to code" which beats most Java-in-10-days books simply for its subject matter.

Add in what seems to be a recurring theme of "don't worry, this is hard, ignore the (male?) arse-hats and just do it, and we have an introduction by and for women - a sorely needed part of the landscape.

So, as I judge this book by its cover, it seems a good and worthwhile addition to the community. Please use Hacker News to promote worthwhile additions (especially as there seems to be a free online copy)
I'm not sure if they gave him the wrong form. As long as they didn't get sued for paying their directors too much, there was nothing wrong with signing as a director. I guess that they just didn't considered the option of getting sued over that.
I wonder how it will scale. Sure, you can use spread spectrum but to other unlicensed users it will look like the noise floor is increasing. As more people connect, the more noise there will be, and the players will either increase their power to maintain their SNRs, or have to slow down their rates.
Nice article! I totally agree with the iterated approach to optimization (and refactoring).
Since I am casually playing LoL I hope you will make it better and better ;)

Talking about optimization, I always wonder why some people have those veeery long loading times. Actually I wonder what is loaded at all. Effects or something? Of course I have no idea of the insides of the game but looking from the outside the map and models should be easily cached.

It would be great to hear more about those loading challenges!