skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Head of Let's Encrypt here. Our automated mail system had a bug that accidentally exposed about 1.9% of subscriber email addresses to the same 1.9% of recipients.

Our sincerest apologies for this mistake. We will be doing a thorough postmortem to determine exactly how this happened and how we can prevent something like this from happening again.

There is a preliminary report on the issue here:

https://community.letsencrypt.org/t/email-address-disclosure...
It is a simple typo, as a latter comment clarified.
gmail still drops the ball, because you have to give your realaddress+marker rather than being able to request a marker.

The correct behavior is to be able to request a marker when signed into any email account, and on my side set the tag that it gets tagged with in that inbox as a result. The link between marker and inbox should remain secret.
> It's known to be used for DRM.

Better citation needed. AFAIK the ME has never been used for DRM. It's supposedly used to implement TPM 2.0 aka PTT, but AFAIK that has never been used for DRM either.
How is that an awful UI? What should it be? It's a flexible way to get what you want. You want to automatically start the daemon on next boot, but not on install? You can do it. You want to prevent daemon restart on upgrade, you can do it. You want to whitelist some daemons, like the SSH server, you can.

Ubuntu inherits this behaviour from Debian. Some people think that daemons should be started after install because the users installed the daemon to run it, some others don't. A choice has to be made. Packages where the daemon is an optional part of the functionality usually comes with either the daemon disabled (eg rsync), or with the daemon in a separate package.
Fairly well. I could be wrong but I believe during the big 2008 downturn people stopped buying cars, yet of course GM needed to keep paying off their capital expenses. So they had a classic cash flow problem. Now sales are normative like you'd expect. Might be a silver lining in that the crisis likely motivated management to make improvements[1].

Although I'm under the impression that their fiance division GMAC took big loses. The standard wikepidia link seems to say GM divested before the big crisis hit.

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

[1] Japanese auto companies tend to compete on quality and TCO. GM seemed stuck forever competing on sales price/brand loyalty.
Only in the most literal sense. The developer who thinks that their job only consists of translating very precise literal instructions to another set of precise instructions will very soon be out of work. That is a thing that is easy to automate. The developer's value lays in being able to translate vague and very context dependent instructions to precise instructions. This guy clearly failed at this.
Not sure what you're trying to say ... obviously it was kept secret and is now being presented as a done deal, even when there are LOTS of things in there that we should never ever agree to [1][2]. Moreover it's something congress would never agree to normally.

It's 10x worse than the DMCA, it's anti-consumer, it advocates worse global warming and prevents people from doing anything about it, it's got disastrously bad anti-employee policies, and so on and so forth. I at one point called it the "Indians get medicine now. Let's fix that" agreement.

Why are you even defending it ? Aren't there any red flags in it from your perspective ? Because I'm pretty sure that if you aren't Lloyd Blankfein, that's guaranteed.

So why are you defending it.

[1] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/dave-johnson/now-we-know-why-h...

[2] http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eastwest-center/tpp-the-new-go...
pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro-pro...
Stack Overflow Exception
That's a common Uber thing; I've been offered a bottle of water in multiple Ubers in multiple cities.

However, maybe it's encouraging taxi drivers to step it up a bit. In my ride to the airport in Chicago yesterday, the driver offered me a bottle of water, which I think was the first time I've experienced that in a taxi.
https://class.coursera.org/ml-005/lecture Machine Learning, Andrew Ng

https://class.coursera.org/algo-003/lecture Algorithms 1, Tim Roughgarden

https://class.coursera.org/algo2-003/lecture Algorithms 2, Tim Roughgarden

Edit:
https://class.coursera.org/compilers/lecture/preview Compilers, Alex Aiken

What else?
I'm entirely convinced that Intel would undermine the entire trusted computer over some relatively hairbrained ideas about new revenue sources.

Intel needs to give us an alternative.
A type system can really help here as well.

sendUserEmail :: FromEmail -> ToEmail -> [EmailHeader] -> EmailBody -> IO ()

However that also requires the discipline of wrapping a lower level function that is probably:

sendEmails :: FromEmail -> [ToEmail] -> [EmailHeader] -> EmailBody

However even a functional language would shy away from using indexing which could be argued to be the source of this problem.
Future historians will view those who today take steps to 'liberate' and 'preserve' the modern culture as the heros and those who sought to lock it away as villains.

Either that, or I fear we face a future as described in Idiocracy.
Okay make it one in a million. You will still be able to tell, and still see the phenomena I'm talking about.
How many Google engineers would have to strike at once to get them to change their tune? 80%?

Things only start changing when it gets bad enough to walk away.
If institutional partners treated MOOCs as a marketing exercise for their university's brand, instead of trying to monetize courses and certificates, people could continue to have this content for free. Unfortunately, universities don't exactly exemplify long-term thinking.

Most of the content for these MOOCs is created by professors as part of their jobs, so this content is owned by their universities. I bet a vast majority of professors would prefer their MOOCs to stay open.

Most of the work has been done already, and the quizzes and exercises are automated, so there's no practical reason these videos couldn't be hosted on YouTube and thrown into an open source MOOC framework like EdX's and continue to serve millions for a few hundred a month in server costs. Except that Coursera is explicitly forbidding non-private use of these courses.

For what it's worth, Free Code Camp gets about 1/8 of the traffic Coursera does, and our (non-opportunity) costs are pretty minor. I don't think hosting these MOOCs would add much to the burden.

If only the individual professors who created these MOOCs could give us permission to host these courses. But there's no way we're going to get anywhere with the university bureaucracies themselves.
The sort of number theory that mathematicians studied for centuries had no practical use until the development of cryptography and computing in the latter half of the 20th century.

That's why Hardy famously used it as his example of mathematics done with no consideration or hope of there ever being a practical application.
Sure but Intel announced back in April that there won't be future Atom phones. i.e. Asus went with Qualcomm for Zenfone 3.
Multichannel Text Processing – iA
That's true, although Windows can be run in a VM. I'm not saying that would be the ideal means of developing for Windows, but it's an available option, and MS even offers free images for testing on various OS versions. Meanwhile OSX can only be run in a VM on Apple hardware.
I did not find anything about ME in BIOS settings, probably the code is not present as you suggested. I have not seen any DHCP requests from the box.
can you link to the paper or give the title/authors/DOI?
I pay for a FastMail account which gives me up to 500 aliases. These are then sucked down in to my Gmail account.
I also found

https://class.coursera.org/crypto-010/lecture

and

https://class.coursera.org/crypto-preview/lecture

but I think the first one is newer.

There's also

https://class.coursera.org/ml-003/lecture

So I guess yours is newer.

Found as well:

https://class.coursera.org/automata/lecture

https://class.coursera.org/hci/lecture

https://class.coursera.org/pgm/lecture

And others. I just did a Google site search:

site:class.coursera.org

And click around. Some are not available though.
I'd like to hear more about this. Are you saying you've set up an OSX VM on non-apple hardware? I haven't tried in at least a year, so maybe things have changed, but I have put a significant amount of effort in trying to get an OSX VM running on non-apple hardware and was not even close to successful.
They will be removed on 30th June. I guess I should have made that clear in my post.
There's a more detailed discussion at "A Survey of Equal Sums and Power" by L. J. Lander, T. R. Parkin and J. L. Selfridge http://www.jstor.org/stable/2003249 (under 5.1.n)
That's why I posted them, so that people can download them before end of this month.
I can't see a better example of Google dropping the ball than you paying for some other service so that you can then consume it from gmail. :)

500 is a reasonable limit I think, in case spamming would be some reason for them not to do this. I don't have an opinion about whether people should be able to send from marker@gmail.com or if it should just end up in a real inbox but without the ability to send from that address.
The tone of the article suggests that an iPhone is made of these elements, moreso than it does that they are made with these elements.

has about 75 elements in it

It's like saying the natural gas and the oven belong on the printed wrapper in the list of ingredients for that cookie you just ate.
https://class.coursera.org/machlearning-001/lecture Machine Leraning, Pedro Domingos
1) media is about money.

2) money is acquired by advertising or subscription.

3) ads or subscriptions need people to read/view and to continue to do that.

4) the best way to influence someone to do that is through emotions.

4) news articles are selected or spun in a way that instills/increases emotions in a targeted audience.

5) if someone in Tibet gets hit by a truck then it is unlikely to produce a reaction to someone in NY.

6) if the demographically relevant person is hit by a truck related to an already unfavorable organization outside an apartment building in NY then that will have a much more likely emotional response and so will be that much more likely to be reported.

this applies to 99% of media, regardless of whether it is politics, crime or sports.

tl;dr = money.
Unrelated, but "gender identity disorder"? Is that a politically correct term or an homophobic one (or whatever you call it when it applies to transgender)?

I really can't tell, I thought it was no longer ok to refer to homosexuality as a disease. Is it ok now to treat "feeling like you are in the wrong sex" as a disease that can be treated?
http://www.contrib.andrew.cmu.edu/~somlo/OSXKVM/
I'm not saying it is or it isn't, I just see a lot of programmers using it, especially ones who maintain open source projects (they post updates about it on Twitter)
You want data diodes that physically enforce one-way-only data transfer.

Tin Foil Chat[1] has a circuit for an opto-isolator based data diode and a discussion of how to use them for secure chat. It's probably not hard to modify these plans for other uses, if the specific guarantees that TFC provides are compatible with your secure computing requirements.

[1] https://cs.helsinki.fi/u/oottela/tfc.pdf
There Have Probably Been Aliens
Yes, Kumail Nanjiani (who plays Dinesh) grew up in Pakistan and moved to the U.S. for college. I believe Dinesh is also supposed to have grown up in Pakistan (albeit with a Hindu first name? Well, of course, even if rare, that can happen), and then immigrated to the U.S. as an adult. Hence, the accent.
Schengen Routing
$13/mo is pretty good for people with premium requirements (as you said, the 1%) in my opinion.

Though, I feel a psychological bias for paying upwards of 10 USD for services, since there are so many of them. I feel comfortable paying 9.77 USD for Netflix (India), but 12.6 USD tier just feels expensive.
That's a hilarious idea.
Topic modeling in 9/11 news articles (2015)
Is anybody else able to download the compilers course? I'm having trouble.
> Cross-compiling Windows apps from Linux using Mingw has been a thing for a very long time. Mingw itself is 18 years old. There are also options for using LLVM or compatibility layers like Midipix. So, no, Windows is not required and hasn't been for a long time.

Sure, develop for Windows without using Windows. But why spend time developing for a platform that you don't use regularly? What about testing? How far can you go without Windows?

> As far as Visual Studio, it's not required...
VS or Windows is not required but the majority of developers develop using VS on Windows. You could cheap-out by avoiding these but you're being penny-wise and pound-foolish.

> But for Apple, you have to own a mac
But for Windows/Linux you still have to buy an Intel machine. You just don't want to buy another machine to develop iOS or OSX apps.

Anyhow, I think Windows/Linux owners are complaining they have to spend more money to develop on a different platform. You never hear this from Mac owners who want to develop for Windows or Linux.[Edit: Not trying to start a flame war. I'm really trying to understand the outrage...]
No, Stallman is a copyright supporter. He just sees it as a tool to empower users. And from his perspective, it makes some sense. If everything were IP liberated, there would be no compulsion to release source code, but my optimism makes me hope that if you cannot profit off software sales, you have no reason not to also disclose the source.

If you can only make money off people paying you to write the software, having the broadest audience becomes crucial, and in such a world (much in the same way most developer tools work outside the MS ecosystem) not being free software would mean nobody would fathom using your software.
I don't even develop platform-specific apps and I'm happy to pay the cost of a new machine every few years. Three machines, purchased new, have provided my sole income source for over a decade, at a cost of about $1000 per year. Not too bad considering what I profited after paying that ghastly fanboy tax...
Somewhere I have DATs with like 1GB of custom Marathon levels and texture designs. Including a complete model of our Junior High School a friend of mine made. I'm not sure how I missed the announcement they open-sourced them.
When I worked there (2012-2014), we were certainly allowed cellphones, and friends that are still in the IC all still have such devices, so I don't think that's changed. We just (obviously) couldn't bring any electronic devices into the SCIF without specific approval.

Anything with an antenna would pretty much never be approved, but if you wanted to bring, say, a Discman or somesuch, you could check it in, it would be torn apart and checked for anything foreign in the device, and then would be tagged for use in the SCIF. Typically, if something goes in, it's never allowed to leave the building except shredded, mulched, and burned.
There's still an ARM core on that phone, in the modem.
Because in 1800 someone had to spend some money making copies. If you have no copyright back then, the argument (albeit wrong, in my mind) would go that you needed the monopoly power to stop your published works being immediately undercut by bootleg copiers, because they did not have the upfront costs of actually producing the novel material.

In practice, even that explanation reflects on the insanity of copyright, in that you should never get to the point where you have done free work and now need the state to assist you in making a living off it. You should be seeking compensation for the act of creation, not for the act of copying.
Even in a restrictive sense of "Asian-American" as meaning those of Asian descent who grew up in America, there are a few presumably Asian-American minor characters on the show, perhaps most notably the Indian "brogrammer" (played by Aly Mawji; imdb is oddly inconsistent as to the character's name, switching between Aly Dutta and Naveen Dutt). But yes, more Asian-American representation would be good (in particular on a show reflecting the demographics of Silicon Valley, but also on TV in general).
It can't be all there is to it. In Afghanistan, puppies have been cultivated in open fields for decades and the US hasn't done shit - besides patrolling. I remember reading somewhere that the US banks benefited from the liquid cash of these kind of activities during the financial crisis in 2008.
I am also having problems. It seems the lecture id to download from the API is incorrect.
Would have been interesting to also have the data as percentage of model price. For a very expensive car, it's also normal that parts will be more expensive.
Ok, so Apple hardware for the win!
Well the "humble indie bundle" is doing well with this pricing strategy.

Not sure if it's applicable outside that market, but it might.

http://humblebundle.com/
Mozilla will fund code audits for open source software
Tesla offered $325M for Salton Sea startup
I've only seen his name whenever Ramanujan is discussed, like when something new about him is discovered.

What are some examples of his self-promotion?
I don't know if it still works, but Google used to support network providers force non-ssl searches using DNS poisoning. BT's WiFi offering used to do this, which is one of the reasons I stopped using it.
He isn't developing for the Mac though, he is developing for the iPhone. You don't have to have a Linux machine to write code for Android.
Thank you for the in depth reply. Glad to hear these things are on the roadmap. I'm really looking forward to when they are ready for serious use. (Although I'm a bit skeptical about WebRTC. Browsers have hyped it for over five years now and is still barely beta quality.)
Maybe my mind is warped, but I actually agree with that. The conjecture isn't the point. There are plenty of interesting counterexamples, but a direct search does nothing to advance mathematics.
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No, the analogy here is the mall taking a cut from someone that buys from a catalog taken from the mall.
Syntax on the brain
>https://class.coursera.org/crypto-010/lecture

Speaking of this, I got an email about the following issue:

The Coursera boneheads decide to do this. What does this mean for the crypto II class?

DELAYED AGAIN! It's been delayed for YEARS. YEARS I say. Another delay because of asinine greed.
Lenovo Launches Phab2 Pro Smartphone with Google’s Tango Technology
None of that applies to subscriptions.
Any good sources on the min number (>2) of terms of sums of positive powers of n equaling another power of n, for each n?

I'm curious if there are low or high outliers.
Ask HN: How would you design a write-in POTUS picker site?
Many US citizens are dissatisfied with the current 2016 POTUS candidates, so (as a theoretical exercise) how would HN design a site that allows US citizens to share their picks and their "WHYs" to surface the most desirable leaders this country would back?

Why do this? I am a US citizen and I like solutions more than angry people. If we can find an objective approach together – let’s try. Update: we’ve acquired the www.potuswritein.com domain and can push an open-source or open-design site out if this works.

Latest goes here:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1EgZYBgu035yYfDpm4-aPm6vGkAS_iq-mNnVuaQ5B_ao/ . This is not a voting-booth alternative or an attempt to push any political agenda. This is just an over-designed public poll to get objective suggestions.

1.Only one submission per US Citizen. Options:
- Only one vote per ip + browser + os
- Request some piece of identification (a DL number + State; or a phone number + DOB + Place of Birth?;

2.Allow every voter to submit up to 10 different candidates in one submission. As results come in and get calculated, the site would visualize every scenario and be filterable (show first picks only, show people in most lists, etc).

3.Allow free-flowing text up to 100 words as to why they recommend each candidate. When you click on a candidate, you get to see all the WHYs as well.

4.After one round of voting produces a set of candidates, do we enable people to do a second round to narrow down the surfaced?

5.Once the voting is complete and results finalized all personal info will be deleted and voters will be replaced with unique ids.

6.If the site gets a denial-of-service attack or if rigging is suspected the site will share data about each incident the main page and/or another public account.

7.Any votes and processing will NOT be reported in real-time. Voters will get confirmation when votes are processed.

8.There will be a donation box for operational costs.
Thanks for this. Searching around for the title of that article[1] opened up plenty more resources as well. I ended up grabbing a refurb'd Mini last time I needed to do OSX-specific testing locally, but it's great to know progress is being made to open the possibilities on non-Apple hardware.

1: "Running Mac OS X as a QEMU/KVM Guest"
Python Machine Learning Book Jupyter
It's been posted a few times in this thread:

https://github.com/coursera-dl/coursera-dl
Or to put it another way, if you knew how to program you wouldn't need to take a crash course. One of the unique things about programming is that many places will hire you without formal certification if you have the (non-language-specific) skills, so there's no real reason to do a bootcamp just for the credential.

Conversely, even if you have credentials you're useless if you can't churn out decent code, and it's just not possible to get the chops to do that in a few weeks of study if you don't already have a basic level of skill. And if you do, there's again no reason to actually go to a bootcamp.

Not that we don't have our problems with stuff like brogrammer culture (particularly in startups) but in terms of credentialling we're actually remarkably meritocratic. Pumping out good code is what matters, not the credential. A credential is one signal that an individual may be competent, but just like any other signal it's by no means foolproof, and there's plenty of other ways to demonstrate competence.
Gawker Media files for bankruptcy amid Thiel lawsuits
It advances mathematics by saving the time of people who might otherwise try to prove a false conjecture?
After 5+ years of developing in Chrome Dev tools, I switched to Safari 2 weeks ago (Mac) and couldn't be happier. Chrome has become bloated. Ever notice CPU fans ramping up? Only while Dev Tools is open. Memory hog is an understatement. Furthermore, while Chrome's light, prebundled Flash was an asset 3 years ago it's now a liability: most websites now gracefully fallback to HTML5 video. Safari's upcoming leading edge standard support announcement makes it a candidate for best dev browser. (Hint: try Safari's Responsive Mode)
What course names did you use? I could not find the ones from Prof. Sedgewick, only the one from Prof. Roughgarden
Why is the most expensive BMW listed less than the average cost of BMW?
> that we have the option to browse with uBlock Origin

Isn't it ...copyright infringement? Sigh... DRM are incoming...
What do you need email for, anyway? Not giving you one makes it pretty easy not to leak it.
The settings window changed - it is now a full screen tab.
Google denies manipulating search engine to hide bad posts about Hillary Clinton
I like the idea of a physical reset and wipe everything to factory method; it's OK (and probably more ideal) if it takes a while.
Did not read the article but the name itself is bad. You cannot name a product using an number. How the hell did they come up with this?
It's a common work-flow to have your stable/prod/dist/build in a separate branch, just like gh-pages is.