skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We need operating system vendors to give us a mechanism for easily creating and managed sandboxed dev environments.

Ones dev environment should be a place where remote code execution is a high probablity and we need better tools to partition that from high value data.
There is significant effort (and progress) in standardizing and contrasting test methods [1]. This usually constitues a good first step in a market of lemons.
[1] http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/2014/09/f18/es_cunningham...
Ask HN: Is it common/legal for stock options to never vest?
I've worked at a startup based in Manchester, UK for 6 years. The company has grown significantly and could be worth > £50m today if acquired.

Upon reviewing my share options amounting to ~2.5% of the company, I was surprised to learn that there is no vesting schedule. This means that if I leave, I lose all options.

I've never known a share option agreement to work like this. Is this ethical? Can I exercise early to work around this?
This is incorrect. Package repositories with namespacing are just as vulnerable to these attacks.
Funny you mention DOS games, which are one of my earliest examples of bit-rot. A lot of them stopped working with win95/98, and the rest are gone with 64-bit windows. DOS Box can help but there was a period of time when computers were too slow to emulate a DOS machine quickly enough.
Bilderberger's do not care about you or your empowerment, their primary goal is strategizing on how they can take away civil liberties - freedom of speech, guns, freedom of the internet, freedom of movement - so they can initiate world government that sits on top of the current nation state system. China is where they beta test all their censorship and tracking techniques before they do soft rollouts in western countries. Wave goodbye to democracy and the power of the people they are actively moving towards 1984 style tyranny - http://www.infowars.com/bilderberg-leak-secretive-group-to-d...
First of all, cars are not investments, they depreciate very rapidly. So if you're already looking at the numbers when it comes to buying a Tesla, you should just not buy any car, period. Or buy a used one that will depreciate the least in dollar value. If you buy a Tesla, you expect to lose money on it, and if you're in that market, the precise amount of the loss is not as important.

What I can say with certainty is that the free charging is nice, and that brushless electric motors have historically had extremely long run times before they break down. And by the time it is time to replace the battery, it will be extremely cheaper and likely much higher capacity and allowing for a higher charge rate. That is all based on extrapolating current trends in battery technology.

Lastly, you're getting a car that will outperform cars that cost more than twice as much. Is that a steal? I guess it's all relative.

The intangible value proposition is the experience of driving and owning one.

I don't know anything about the eight year lifecycle thing, but historically, Tesla has treated past owners of its cars very well, such as offering owners of their first car a battery upgrade and things like that.

I think Musk is smart enough to know that pissing off well-heeled customers is not a good long term business proposition. Whatever you've heard about "8 years and then dead" is probably hysteria or FUD
None of these are kernel-related.

You can create hard and soft links. PowerShell is great, just different. UAC is not sudo, but works very well. It's a different OS.
2. Filesystem feature, supported by NTFS for quite a while in differen styles. It has a security policy because a lot of userland software doesn't know about them. I use them all the time and they work, even if you move things like /Users/.

3. Userland issue. You can compile bash and an ssh server for Windows if you want. PowerShell is quite different, yes.

4. exists, both in GUI and commandline.
There are a number of reasons:

1) Some apps have a limited life span - games, for example, or apps specific to an event (like the SIGGRAPH or GDC apps)

2) Some apps have bugs that you don't encounter until you use a particular function

3) Some apps stop being updated and you need more functionality than they offer.

4) You have a new need you didn't have before so you need a new app or apps to fulfill it
I switched from tmobile's $30 unlimited (5gb lte) plan. I'm definitely paying $10-15/month more now, but I also travel frequently. The international coverage makes it worthwhile for me.

As far as phone expenses go, I think I'm still doing pretty well though.
I highly doubt that Beef is a more efficient if source of meat than Chicken. I think Chicken meat is a lot more efficient.

A little quick googling and I found:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio
Google docs experiencing downtime
This is cool and all, but I'm worried that Google will just pull the plug during one "spring cleaning" event. Plus T-Mobile's $100/4 lines/2 GB per line is just unbeatable right now... cheaper and more data.
What makes you believe it's outdated?
Isn't there a limit to what police can ask you to provide during a traffic stop? How is it legal that they can ask to see your debit / credit cards?
Funny as it seems we arrived at the same "solution".
Isn't everything natural?
No it isn't, you buy the software as before and get updates free for a year. This is not a subscription.
To be clear, Meyer does not allege anything of that sort in the clip. He says, "Bo Davis is a lawyer in the Eastern District of Texas that represents patent trolls and their victims. Bo Davis is Judge Leonard Davis's son working a law practice in the very same district in which his father is a judge. So, if Judge Leonard Davis can encourage more patent trolls to bring more lawsuits into the Eastern District of Texas, his son is one of the people that's gonna rack up the billable hours."

So there's no allegation that Judge Davis (now retired) actually presided over any of his son's cases, merely that his son stood to benefit from the overall patent-troll friendly climate of the Eastern District court. Not really a clear-cut recusal situation. If anything, the fact that his son's firm represents trolls and victims alike meant there was less reason for a specific bias on behalf of the judge.
Bigchaindb is tackling generic open data repositories from a technical pov. As has been said below, the larger part of the sustenance prob is economical of course.
As a recent graduate, I know many people who used the "free work for a short term" method to get in the door for a new job. It isn't going to work at very large companies, but at startups and agencies, absolutely. "Illegal" sure, but a smart manager wouldn't turn down a chance to get a great look at a potential employee
Ask HN: What IoT operating systems are popular by enterprise app dev, not maker
Ah yes. Former East Texan here. One company, Personal Web (http://www.personalweb.com/about.html), setup shop near the courthouse. They came to our school claiming they were going to be working on the next version of the web, web 3.0. They were recruiting for part-time only students. I asked why they chose east texas, and they said because they owned many patents wanted to be near the court that here's many technology patent cases.

1) The patent reason is a giveaway what they were really up to. 2) Why would you only hire part-time students? They were simply trying to build up a credible reputation in the community as a "small, local shop hiring locals" going against the big guys.
Right, and just in case anyone is in doubt, the ratio for cattle is also 50/50. There is no sexing that I am aware of, but if someone is a vegetarian and drinks milk, they are still supporting the schnitzel industry.
I'd be more worried about the smoke from rosin based flux than the presence of lead. Not that either one is some kind of health benefit...
I think its more analogous to your water/waste company who you pay monthly for them to remove your waste from your house. The provide an ongoing service, you don't get to pay a one time fee for it. Subscriptions provide a way for apps that have an ongoing support component to be paid for that instead of using ads.
In the US, unpaid internships are only legal when they pass a six-part test. Generally, if the intern is doing stuff that benefits the company the internship must be paid. http://smallbusiness.findlaw.com/employment-law-and-human-re... lists the six-part test
So according to wikipedia reading comprehension is defined as the ability to read text, process it, and understand its meaning. So a fill in the blanks question is in fact reading comprehension if the query is not in the text itself which is the case in the dataset.

Text search is really the opposite where you are trying to find words that are related to the query and a better google would be to try to find words that are semantically related to the query. You could look at this as inverse text search as given keywords find the related word.

What you described as comprehension for your daughter is also an example of comprehension but it is not the only one. Yes it is more advanced than what is in these datasets but the field is only at its initial stages and there is more to come in the future.

That being said I don't see why a neural network could not infer that dwarfs and snow white are related to the word friends given that one can feed neural networks both general text and story text. In the same way that a child would have to infer from reading general text and story text that snow white and the dwarves were friends.
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Their were real solid reasons behind accepting the donation... even though most did not pan out, just the relicensing ALONE was a major Good Thing for the OpenOffice ecosystem. This allowed for key and provable IP provenance, something that was lacking in LibreOffice, and known/trackable licensing.

Even so, bemoaning the ASF for even trying seems very disingenuous and somewhat ignorant of the facts.
> Apps are a service.

So each month we are now going to pay for Netflix, Spotify, Dropbox, Github, Amazon Prime and a bunch of apps...
Thank you. This is the piece of information I was looking for. Essentially they will drain any prepaid cards while validating credit and debits. This makes the 'fraud reversal' technique mentioned elsewhere in this thread infeasible, as to my knowledge you can't do a reversal on prepaid cards.
I guess this is the article that makes me realize I'm out of touch. I was super excited to see what kind of small castle they built, how they did it with just two people, and I also had lots of legal questions about building castles. Oh well, this looks neat too!

Edit: was expecting something like this, for those of you now interested in home-castle-building-stories: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2280764/Farmer-told-...
If an intern is 'working' for free, then it's considered educational. They're not allowed to contribute materially to the business. For example, I can have an unpaid intern shadow me and watch what I do all day, but I can't put any code they write into production.
At least that totally rad cliff diving video that YouTube queued up afterwards was a nice chaser.
If I understand it correctly, the same HTTPS certificate is used for all GitHub pages websites. So hypothetically, I could do a MITM attack and redirect a user from an HTTPS protected GitHub pages site to my malicious GitHub Pages site right? (although the url would be different... but could be similar)
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11233898

Basically you can drive a Tesla past 8 years, but after any repair, it can only be re-validated for the road by Tesla. Given Tesla has no warranty after 8 years and no published pricing yet for servicing after 8 years, we don't know whether we'll be able to have a car revalidated, let alone repaired.
I think it's time for us to start building better systems to protect consumers from this escalating arms race of advertising tools and trickery.

Some sort of little financial coach that asks you about purchase patterns, your state of mind before and after, how you feel about the whole thing in retrospect, and why it is you think you 'need' this thing right now.

If it turns out you compulsively buy baseball hats for the wrong team when you're drunk, maybe your phone should ping you if you walk into a sporting goods shop after you've been in a bar for three hours. Then it shows you a picture of your daughter and reminds you that you PROMISED that this summer you'd take her to Disney World.
You need to talk to a lawyer about this pronto.

No, this is not ethical, nor common.

Legal? Dunno. And that is the question.
As I understand it, many of the internships that happen today don't meet the (U.S.) legal requirements, but neither party (the intern nor the company) is complaining.

Basically, the intern is supposed to be learning a trade with some incidental work output, and what really happens is that they are given junior-level labor and some guidance and pointers (i.e. the same thing you'd do with a PAID junior level worker).
Not as yet. Check out https://www.aerobatic.com
Why would you think that? Larger animals are usually much more energy efficient for various reasons - less surface area to radiate heat, and economies of scale with larger organs.
My neighbour keeps suggesting I add some ducks, seems like a good excuse to make one of these natural pools. Also, in town where I am, you cant have a rooster (thank god), but male ducks are aok.
Or Google can sue patent troll for false claims that they own patent on Google Play Store and seek compensation for their financial damages caused by those false claims.
In this case "financial damages" may be interpreted as thousands of developers that presumably did not get involved with Google Play platform because of these false claims.

Plus Google can claim litigation costs.

Also clearly there is a damage to reputation of the Google, since we are discussing here that they need to get involved in this case. I am not sure if they can get compensated for that as well.
> There are a few reasons why I didn't agree regarding places that I've turned down. First, if the family situation continues to require on-going financial resources from me (likely), then it's literally not sustainable for me to accept an offer where the compensation/benefits are substantially worse than what I earned previously.

Maybe I haven't had enough caffeine for the day. However, even if the new job doesn't even cover your expenses, isn't some income better than no income? Unless you are using your current free time to gain something.
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I have to say I agree. I didn't even think they would think of modeling the store this way, though granted what they've done with Itunes/Apple Music I guess it isnt that surprising. Pretty disappoined
I wonder about the legality. It looks to me like he isn't technically responsible, since he didn't access any authorized computer himself.

If I intentionally leave an infected USB drive on the ground, someone picks it up and sticks it into it's computer, am I liable?

Seems like it could go either way.
> Plus T-Mobile's $100/4 lines/2 GB per line is just unbeatable right now... cheaper and more data.

Except you don't have worldwide roaming included in your plan, which you have to pay extra for.

That's a reason why I'm not changing from Fi.
Also the fact that data I don't use is reimbursed.
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How do you feel Clinton has been heavy-handed?
Because Google has a great track record of caring about Android developers? They are basically monopoly (in western markets at least), they don't need to do anything to turn profit. They are happy to collect their 30% while spending almost nothing (directly that is - on support for example).
Until reading these comments, I was completely convinced this was fairly good satire.
I have installed the current fast ring build and have tried installing several packages on Windows. Some do install and work (compilers, build environment, node, redis server), but packages that use more advanced socket options (such as Ethereum) or that configure a deamon (most databases), still end with an error. Compatibility is improving with every new build, and you can ditch/reset the whole Linux environment on Windows with a single command, which is nice for testing.
Yeah, I thought SDN was the link to the title: "replace routers with L3 switches that populate their forwarding tables using OpenFlow queries", or something.
You don't have access to their private key. The fact that it is the same certificate is irrelevant. Anything you can do now, you could also do if they'd use separate certificates per subdomain.
Ask HN: Can you help out a blind guy by describing the look of an application?
Screenshot below.

I didn't write this application, but I do use it every single day and it was developed pretty much exclusively for screen reader users. However I'll be giving a presentation involving some screenshots from it on Friday so some descriptions would be great! How does it look to you? What's the layout and do you think it works? (I'm not expecting it to look that great.)

Many thanks if you can help out!

https://www.dropbox.com/s/okt34fulaoxg3b7/Screenshot%202016-06-08%2021.18.18.png?dl=1
While it doesn't impact me, I spent a few years in Iowa, which has pretty junk coverage from every carrier except US Cellular. I was surprised by how many people used them in Iowa (and that they had the most store-front stores around). While you'll get coverage along the major highways (which means all the major cities have coverage from AT&T and Verizon), when you start driving into farmland, US Cellular is the only option.

There are definitely places where this US Cellular is the only option, and this is an awesome addition for those people.
Where can I get more info on this t mobile plan?
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Small nit: $3 != $100+

That said, using native SPI bus on a closest laying around (embedded) Linux board is an awesome idea hardware-wise. What about software though? Will dd if=file.bin of=/dev/spidev0.0 fail to write to an SPI NOR chip?
> "This is the first time you are installing a package
> from 'smoeuser' would you like to continue?"

You don't need package namespacing for this. All package repositories already require a registered account to publish a package.
Hello,

Sorry to read about all those issues. I can't offer you a job but I think I can help you in some way. My email is in my profile, please get in touch!

Good luck!
I think Musk never realised this business opportunity.

I think it just hit him where he most likes it.

He is succsfully disrupting the automotive industry.

Now he gave him an idea to disrupt a hugely profitable industry even before it's fully established. (ride-sharing/Uber)

The idea tingled his southern regions.
Monkey in Kenya Survives After Setting Off Nationwide Blackout
well said...Uber is working on that as we speak..
"HTTPS is not supported for GitHub Pages using custom domains"[1] which is annoying.

[1]: https://help.github.com/articles/securing-your-github-pages-...
Here's a whole post on that subject (or it might be Part 1 :)

http://blog.mldb.ai/blog/posts/2016/04/ml-meets-economics2/
Chicken, being leaner, may be a more efficient protein source. For raw calories, I think beef would be more efficient.
Plus fat is a better calorie source than protein.
Might have been specifically recommended for you. Mine was different.
Some other interesting articles form the past:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/magazine/the-brilliance-of...

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/feature/131954/interview_the_m...

I have played quite a bit of the game and it is amazing despite its insane and sometimes frustrating UI.
"Your honor, my client created and published a software library. The so-called victims here wrote code that specifically referenced my client's software library, by name mind you. My client in no way compelled or solicited the victims to do so. Now how can that be called 'without authorization?'"
I don't totally understand how this is not a violation of one's free speech if ideas are being banned. I can see where they get the power to prevent the patent from issuing, but what part of the constitution allows you to ban a private citizen from speaking about their ideas?
Does this count as an example of single-point-of-failure?

From the article:

"A nationwide blackout that knocked out lights, severed internet service and paralyzed countless businesses for more than three hours on Tuesday was caused by a monkey, the electricity company announced.

"The monkey, which appeared to be of the Vervet species, with a collar of white fur, climbed onto the roof of the Gitaru Power Station and fell or jumped onto a transformer. The transformer tripped, which in turn tripped other machines at the hydroelectric power station, setting off a nationwide blackout, the Kenya Electricity Generation Company, or KenGen, said."
A failure, probably.
If Apple supported the latest standards in mobile Safari, you could write web apps that work offline and have push notifications like on Android. That's not in Apple's interest though.
yeah, 50/50 shot that is the case. Adam Jonas (MS auto analyst) is always out there on this kind of stuff. Either way, now tesla has an interesting idea
Google Docs downtime
There seems to be a Docs/Drive outage now. I'm experiencing it, and several on twitter seem to be as well, e.g. https://twitter.com/andrewrowland/status/740638173466873856 https://twitter.com/mikeMaher/status/740638453940031488 https://twitter.com/SkyOtic/status/740636169952735233 https://twitter.com/JamieGoswick/status/740636138814066688

I tried to submit http://downdetector.com/status/google-drive which has a bunch of those twitter links but it's apparently blacklisted.
This is also a nice overview from the dnsimple guys:

https://howdns.works/ep1/
I think that's only partially true. While Apple promised that there will be an easy way to manage subscriptions, at least some users will just forget that they've subscribed to something and will continue to be charged regardless of whether they are even using the app. This is especially true if they have a mix of intended subscriptions and small unintended ones.

This is part of the time-honored business model for places like fitness clubs.
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No, beef and lamb are the most energy consuming sources of meat. (A dairy producing cow is different.)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feed_conversion_ratio

For cattle, a FCR range from less than 5 to more than 20 kg feed dry matter per kg gain may be encountered.[

Whereas for chickens:

Poultry has a feed conversion ratio of 2 to 1.
Hey thenobsta, that's a good point about it redirecting you to another page. I'll discuss it with our tech guy tomorrow.
That already exists in the app store.

What's new is for someone who makes a Twitter client to be able to say "You can buy TweetMaster17000, but it's a subscription that totals $6 a year. That way I can afford to continually update it for existing users."

That's not a bad thing, but it may be a hard sell to many users.
I have seen a similar setting in Brazil with small Bantam chickens.

Some breeds are more self-sufficient l than others. What chicken breed do you raise?
Flashrom [1] is the go-to tool for everything SPI on *nix. It knows how to identify chips and will prevent you from doing anything stupid, if it can.

[1]: https://www.flashrom.org/Flashrom

(As of January, it looks to have support for your $3 programmer! https://github.com/flashrom/flashrom/blob/86bb6c55dd3bb1a167... )
I wouldn't call CloudFlare end-to-end encrypted. They see the plaintext, independent of whether communication with the backend is encrypted or not.
Not really. There's a basic thermodynamic inefficiency as organisms get larger, and consume farther away from the energy source, in this that being the sun.
Doesn't sound like Google. If it had affected Newegg on the other hand...