skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Constant anti-Russian drivel, embargoes and other punitive measures, NATO presence in Eastern Europe, constant provocations (in THEIR territory), toppling a legitimate government and establishing western-friendly (and somewhat pro-nazi) lackies in his borders -- and it is Putin who is stuck in the cold war?

Sure, there should be just one country that runs around the world and does as it pleases, invades countries and claims "strategic interests" 10,000 miles away from its borders, collaborates with dictators while condemning other dictators (or, in some cases, legitimately elected leaders).

But if another country defends is very actual borders and its area, suddenly that's too much.
Hiroshi Lockheimer teases Android N's official name, Android apps on Chromebook
yea big scam. plus they harvest email without permission.
Scanning Live Ethereum Contracts for the “Unchecked-Send” Bug
Nice - it looks like the finally have OAuth support with their new api. I've been waiting for that for a side-project idea I have.
There's a question on Quora with some great answers from the original team members that shows what happened with IE:

https://www.quora.com/How-did-Internet-Explorer-up-until-ver...
Is this a problem due to not being able to buy physical/cloud infrastructure or developers with cannabis money or something else?
You are forgetting that section 6 of GPLv3 still applies. That's the so-called "anti-Tivoization clause" that states that you must give the device owner "Installation information", allowing him to install and execute modified forms on this device.

I understand why you would license your software under this if you want to give end users the SW freedoms developers enjoy. I also understand why many makers of safety-critical devices avoid it like the plague.

Case in point, the automotive industry. Coincidentally, the Qt company has in past few years started engaging automotive companies [1][2].
The move to (L)GPLv3 can be valid and has other reasons besides pushing commercial licensing. But you can't say it doesn't have any impact on the industry.

[1] https://www.qt.io/qt-news/qt-company-launches-automotive-sui...
[2] Spot the gauge needles and car body models in the announcement http://www.qt.io/qt5-7/
Hi Elliot,

Thanks for your comment.

Receiving honest and brutal feedback is the only way we're going to move this thing forward.

I made this post long before many of those comments and as a response to the significant amount of people who kindly decided to join our mailing list, resulting in our site shutting down multiple time due to an unprecedented level of traffic.

Please try the blog post link again. If not try it later tonight or tomorrow. We will evaluate later on today what's the best step to take as a team, and this after taking all of the comments into consideration.

If you have any other concerns, please feel free to address them.

Best,
Jonathan Etienne

CEO of Recruitly.co
My colleague worked in Zurich for 6 years, he didn't even try Google because he was already making comparable money in other company, so I would call salary in Zurich as "huge", just average for Zurich.
By making money? Are you f'ing serious?
But how do you know? Even if you can flash new firmware, how do you know it is all the firmware? There may be a layer below what you can see, with its own CPU, memory, and firmware.
Yes. What on earth would be the non-malicious purpose of this feature?
Major security vulnerability in Democratic campaign donation platform (RespDisc)
>Flickr should have been Facebook (eventually)

I don't know. Flickr is optimized around sharing photos (at full resolution if desired) to a broad audience. There is a largely optional community angle but a lot of us barely participate in that.

I have a short list of things that I wish flickr did better and there are doubtless things it could have evolved into without harming the store/display-photos use case. But, although it's been pretty stagnant I'm honestly not sure what more I really want it to do.

I agree it would be very unfortunate if flickr were to either shutdown or do something like turn off non-paid accounts. I find it a useful source of CC images and I am contacted from time to time by people wanting to use photos of mine.
We were exclusively on AWS, but now are distributed across Linode, DigitalOcean, and Vultr. We're saving a lot, and getting better performance.
How does a $1B default judgement work when it's clear that a person does not have the money and will likely not be able to earn it even over their lifetime?
Since the book is called "Complete Docker" it's broad in scope; I pitched the book to my editor as spanning beginner, intermediate, and production topics. I won't really go into advanced Docker in the book.

Right now the first several chapters serve as a "I'm a programmer but know nothing about Docker" guide, the mid of the book dives into Docker-specifics (how exactly volumes work, how Docker networking works, etc), and then it graduates into the Docker Ecosystem, dedicating some time to covering tools like Kubernetes, CoreOS, Fleet, Amazon ECS.

The latter portion of the book is a number of recipes: how to get a Ghost blog running behind an nginx proxy; how to launch WordPress with MariaDB; how to launch an ELK stack, etc.
You can add multiple keys, so you could have a primary one that's with you and another one that's stored somewhere safe. You can also configure OTP and/or SMS-based 2FA and backup/recovery codes as a fallback mechanism.
… Franwell … if used for food (just for example) would be able to tell you what corn field, and what corn plant … RFID tags

I wonder if people set up these logistics/telematics companies so they can make trades on all the data they are collecting before anyone else can (I guess insurance companies would want to do this, but that's less fun of a tangent)?

Also anyone out there using any cheap sensors arrays w/ beamforming techniques and picking up on random RFID tags?
My team has nothing to do with that sort of decision, so forgive me for being vague, but I believe it's on the radar. The changes done today definitely help the odds.
Have you looked at the Yeti language for the jvm?
If all you want is stuff running on the equivalent of EC2 instances, you can use DigitalOcean or some other competitor. However, AWS offers a degree of depth and sophistication that just isn't available from the competition. Trying to do something that is as security-clean as this VPC using DO or Linode or something, from scratch, sounds like weeks of hell to me.

"Not Invented Here" is a big problem in this industry in general. We tend to be too comfortable cobbling a solution together from stone knives and bearskins, rather than using someone else's solution (and paying for it). If you are running a business, though, you shouldn't be building things that aren't what you sell, unless you really cannot otherwise buy them.
Problem is the FBI will see people doing this, and most likely profile/track these individuals... Wait, you're one of them aren't you!
Rhapsody renames to Napster
Okay. I guess if you can't be bothered to conduct your own research, enjoy life in the "I can't build my own machine and pay hundreds of dollars for someone else to install my operating system" lane. Also, sorry to bear awful news, but nothing is 100% guaranteed to work unless you're buying from a liar.
He's pre-30.
Looks like this is extremely relevant - the Halting problem and Turing completeness applied to quantum physics:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-quantum-physics-problem-unsolva...

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v528/n7581/full/nature1...
lol big surprise.
I posted this yesterday with perhaps an uninforming title.

If you agree that this is a serious vulnerability, please tweet at @actblue and e-mail them at info@actblue.com.

Here's the introduction.
ActBlue is a non-profit that organizes fundraising efforts for Democratic causes; so far they have facilitated over a billion dollars in donations. This page details a security vulnerability in the ActBlue donation system.

tl;dr This vulnerability affects over three million individuals who have donated to a Democratic cause using ActBlue Express Lane. Specifically, the ActBlue donation system can be exploited to appropriate false donations towards either the Hillary Clinton or Bernie Sanders campaigns. Using cross-site request forgery, previous donors can be tricked into donating to other Democratic candidates or causes.
“We built a cloud encryption platform” – “So what?”
ConsenSysWeekly: Creating tokens, StateChange, re-wiring the Internet and more
Context is important. Tumblr had a lot of porn blogs, sure, but most people on it were 15-25-year-olds running personal blogs, interest blogs, and building communities. It was essentially the new Livejournal, but with Twitter-style reblogs.

Yahoo knew this, and wanted this demographic for their ad ecosystem. They often thought of themselves as a 'media company', and they liked the creative aspects of the community. They also, wisely, knew that Tumblr users would never accept being forced into using a Yahoo account, so they had to keep the userbases separate.

But this meant they couldn't use Tumblr to build Yahoo's social presence and its brand. They'd harvest some analytics, display some very loosely targeted ads to people highly averse to ads, but that mercantilist relationship was all was to be. In that light, they clearly overspent.
> To say philosophers should focus on unfalsifiable ideas is to say philosophers should be antipragmatic and inconsequential.

Philosophy is the origin of all the sciences. Starting with Mathematics, as various topics became tractable they became self-standing disciplines, leaving the non-tractable ones behind. Thus inherently philosophers are the ones who work on the really hard problems.

(True, epistemology remains in philosophy but I would argue that the tractable parts moved into mathematics).

AI suffers from the same problem -- once something becomes well accepted people say, "well THAT isn't AI; AI is <some other intractable domain>".
Using them now for about a year. Really can't find anything to wrong about them

- decent performance (both IO/CPU)

- custom ISOs (yay BSD!)

- elastic IPs

- plenty of locations (so far tried only NY and EU)

- good support
Is it just me or is the article desperately trying to find examples of how Yahoo hurt Tumblr only to come up with several trivial gaffes? I once worked in a company damaged by acquisition and it looked nothing like this. Tumblr simply didn't become the exceptional miracle some hoped for - and that is it.
That seems low for London since it's also a city with high living costs... Do they give any other extra benefits, or what about bonus/stock?
If the backup machine is compromised the attacker can corrupt your backups. Either way, if machine is hacked you risk loss.
You now can compare queries in Search Analytics
> in that mode Intel Network Cards will poweroff every 3 minutes

This is ridiculous. This is not a rootkit waiting to happen, it's already an operational rootkit!

What is this company trying to achieve? Is this a military asset designed to attack foreign countries? Is the Cold War not over?
How do you manage screen time?
I think it could definitely be a play on memes from the current campaign, which itself could be seen as a referendum on masculinity. But it goes much deeper than just the politics of year 2016.
How to Launch a Failed Startup
libui is a very interesting project but I find it still pretty much alpha: good enough for playing around with it, but not quite ready for production. However it is moving fast, so who knows its state in a few months.. Btw, I'm slowly building a python wrapper (1) and accepting contributions!

(1) - https://github.com/joaoventura/pylibui
I think everyone gets it -- the article is intentionally given the slightly cheeky title.
Fuck that. The Microsoft under Ballmer was a car crash. I was running a .Net development house at the time and we seriously considered switching tech stack off the back of Microsoft's attitude to everytihng.

Now I couldn't be happier we stuck by them.
New White Paper Reveals Cannabis Beverages Now More Potent Than Smoking Pot
Discussions in posts about commercial libraries / tools developers often have extensive discussion about pricing and free alternatives (Threads about SublimeText come to mind). I wonder if the current sad state of developer tooling (stuck in the 70s in many cases) is because of our reluctance to pay for our tools. Would love to hear what others have to say about this.
I'd say: you should learn as much as you can! That way you can decide for yourself whether or not Kubernetes is for you.

One thing Kubernetes IS helpful with at small scales: portability. If you're fully Kubernetes/Docker, then you won't get locked into (eg) AWS's ecosystem. It's relatively easy to pick up an entire Kubernetes cluster and move it from AWS to DigitalOcean to private hardware.

So even if you're at small scale today but want to design for portability, I'd definitely look into Kubernetes.
But it requires leaving a port open on the DB server where an attacker can get a whole copy of your database, or destroy it.
this was ten years ago, so techniques are severely outdated etc. also it's not THAT much of code, the majority of it is standard initialization and optimization. here's the most important stuff

https://imgur.com/a/w2BCy
Tell that to Roscoe Filburn.
Show HN: Launch of a minimalistic VPS provider with CoreOS and Atomic images
lynx -dump -display_charset UTF-8 http://www.wired.com/1998/02/dyson/ > dyson.txt

I'm behind a firewall that blocks a number of ad related servers, so Wired thinks I have an add blocker installed (well, I suppose I do, but not on the computer that I control) and decides to put a huge popup thingy over the page to tell me the error of my ways...

Command line above generates text that I can read OK in gedit. I think I remember this article when it came out.
Yeah what a joke right?

"That is why there is no upfront cost to join Holberton school. We only charge 17% of your internship earnings and 17% of your salary over 3 years once you find a job. If the company you join agrees to pay us a placement fee, this percentage will be reduced."

https://www.holbertonschool.com/education
I would have bet money that was a joke. But no.
There are currently many excellent frameworks to choose from: TensorFlow, Theano, Torch, MXNet are all great. The comparative advantage of TensorFlow is mostly its support in the community (e.g. most stars on GitHub, most new projects being developed, etc).
Except that `sort -u` enables an optimization for dealing with a large number of duplicate lines.
Family of U.S. student killed in Paris attacks sues social media companies
Why is that? Even software firms don't want to deal with weed?
This exists. I'm at work, but you can google pronto condom. It's been around for years and likely has a new name now.
Measurabl – Sustainability and Energy Management Software
This is "unbranded editorial content" (aka blog spam) by Expensify.
Packet.net Beats AWS; Price and Performance
But now it's 2016 and services like Tumblr have all gone mobile but Yahoo is killing the Tumblr app by requiring a login as I've explained before here - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11071841
Devops started as a message that developers were responsible for the solution they were building, not just for throwing builds over to deployment. The phrase turned into HR code for firefighters who hack scripts on production.

When it's built right, operations doesn't exist. On this theme - we're hiring. Central London. We need a platform/infrastructure engineer: solid unix, automation-centric, someone who will drive evolution of the infrastructure and release platform. https://clearmatics.workable.com/jobs/257440
Sapho: Apps in chat are the future of work
There's a weed store about 4 blocks from any given point in Washington state.
> on the willingness of the federal government to extend the informal prosecutorial tolerance of in-state activities related to marijuana that comply with state laws in states which have adopted some form of state legalization to larger interstate enterprises

The only think that is allowed Federal government to terrorist people in the name of Marijuana is it is still not a common knowledge that the laws about Marijuana are absurd. Federal government taking on MS might be a good thing for society in general.

One big issue with the "war of drugs" is that it is very easy to benefit by helping the illegal drug dealers that fighting against the regulation. If Uber can wage war on different government for de-regulating taxi business why cant a wannabe hemp company do the same? It is not happening but MS getting into this is a good sign.
Subpixel crap was always a workaround for not having enough pixels to begin with. Now that that logjam is finally broken, this kind of argument is increasingly moot.
Batman Superman App
Went thru both Bos and Sfo recently. Waits were under 15 mins for mid morning flights. Looks like they've improved since their horrendous peaks.
Is this really true?
What tool did you use to make the flow chart, or is it custom?

[0] https://segment.com/blog/the-segment-aws-stack/images/main.p...
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This is not just a YC thing, it's par for the course for most SV VC's. Their MO is to spread lots of bets around, expecting 99% of those bets will go to 0, 0.9% may just break even, and 0.1% may be the next Google, Facebook, etc. and make back far more than all their other losses combined.

That's a bit of a simplification and exaggeration, but the general idea is that if you want to raise money in SV you need a plausible case for how your startup will either become a unicorn (>= $1B valuation) or disrupt some really big established thing. YC also has appears to have a preference for technological advances - "breakthrough technology" - over the status quo.

Looking at your website I would have the same question as YC - competent-looking execution and product design, which if continued could potentially make it to >= $1B market cap, but it appears your business model is, at best, attempting an incremental improvement over UnderArmor and the like. What big problem are you solving, or big established things are you disrupting? What new market or industry are you creating? What breakthrough technology are you deploying that enables you to execute better than entrenched competitors in a way they can't easily replicate?

My sense is that's more along the lines of what they're looking for.
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/vpro-amt-management-kvm,review...

jesus wept, how do I turn it off?
Anyone know why so many tech/pharma companies have research/development departments in Switzerland? It sounds expensive and not very centrally located.

A young company where I live have HQ in Switzerland, but that's just a post box and some servers for tax reasons. The are so few people working there it's negligible.
According to published studies of Tumblr traffic, porn now dominates.
> Almost 100% of publicly-known charity is, to some extent, designed to enhance prestige.

Reference?
>If you start by saying that "ISIS = terrorism" then there's no predictive knowledge in knowing someone's ethnicity, because your definition is inherently geographically biased, and ethnicity is correlated to geography.

I fail to see how it doesn't have "predictive knowledge" under those assertions.

The fact that my "definition is inherently geographically biased" and "ethnicity is correlated to geography" implies exactly the opposite -- that it's an obvious correlation.(The predictive power obviously coming from using that knowledge for excluding, or putting a less weight, to other ethnicities).

>And wouldn't nationality be more predictive than ethnicity?

Not necessarily. Some western ex-pat working in such a country, even if he got the nationality, would be less likely to share the same affiliations, backstory, religion and culture with those turning out to be terrorists. And inversely, culprits in Europe for example often have gotten the European nationality (or even have been born there in the first place), but most still share such (non-European) ethnicities.

>Are those who attack abortion centers and abortion doctors terrorists? If so, is "Christianity" another factor? If not, why not?

They could be said to be terrorists too. I didn't suggest anything about them though -- I said racial profiling is OK at airports and for catching the other kinds of terrorists (and for which such programs as TSA started anyway), not for each and every kind of loony. Airports are not abortion clinics, so they won't attract as many Christian zealots.

>When the US-backed Contras used murder, rape, and torture against the civilian population, was that terrorism?

Yes, but obviously not the kind that the US government tries to prevent now -- so outside the scope of this discussion.

If people from certain rural areas tended to be Contras and one wanted to guess them out in such a scenario as with TSA, then racial profiling would be totally applicable there too.
Email Encryption Using Nylas N1 and Keybase.io
No one uses wheel motors on cars; they sound good at first, but the problem is that motors are heavy, and the last thing you want on car wheels is more unsprung weight: it's very bad for ride and handling. So you still need flexible axles to transmit power from the motor to the wheels. Go look at a Tesla at the showroom and you'll see this in the bare-chassis floor models they exhibit.

Otherwise, you're basically describing the Chevy Volt. There's a reason these cars aren't more popular: they're expensive, and have a lot of drawbacks. Instead of a single drive system like the Tesla (electric motor, axles, single-speed gearbox, and motor controller, plus a big battery pack for energy storage), now you need two drive systems (the former, plus a traditional fossil-fuel engine, and a generator, and a fuel tank). All that hardware takes up space, and costs money, so you end up with a car that's a lot more expensive than a comparably-sized and appointed gasoline car. You could downsize the battery pack greatly to save cost and space and eliminate the 50+ mile electric-only range, but now you're stuck with unimpressive fuel economy: take a look at the Volt's fuel economy when in gas-only mode, it's not anything special. The Prius gets much better fuel economy than the Volt when comparing gas-only operation, and for good reason: serial hybrids are inherently inefficient because of all the power conversions. The Prius does better because it's a parallel hybrid.

Now moving away from the Volt's gas-powered piston engine to a far more compact diesel-powered rotary optimized for single-speed operation might change this equation, I don't know. Of course, as we've seen with VW, diesel has problems with emissions.
If Perl did anything for the world, TAP is the greatest thing it did, and even THAT is still being developed. :D
My dad fell for this scam (sadly he won't admit it to his friends to help prevent them from falling for it). He did explain to me what happened: the social hacking was successful enough that the scammer may not have known you real friend's name!

In my dad's case, someone called and said "this is your son. I'm in London and my passport was stolen." My dad asked, "This is <my name>? Are you OK?" Then he asked why "I" hadn't called my wife, using her name. Now the scammer could say "I tried to call <her name>" and had some explanation I now forget. Thus the scammer was able to build confidence.

The really interesting thing to me is that the caller didn't even have my accent. When he finally called me, my dad told me that, and said though he noticed that immediately he was so worried about me that it didn't cause him to suspect anything!

I'm a parent so I can understand how some of your rational reasoning can shut down when you think your kid is in trouble. I now see that as you start to lose your marbles this can become pretty bad.
Higher resolution displays also mean that the difference between rendering techniques is smaller. It actually made me stop caring about rendering techniques.