skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
London v. Berlin: Which startup ecosystem will lead Europe?
Software is more tightly coupled with politics than you think.
exactly. I've had to be aware of IRB needs since high school, and deal with them since I was an undergraduate.

This is like trying to run a business but "not knowing" that you have to issue your employees W-2s.
All methods of landing on Mars require an aeroshell and parachute sequence, but after that there are three choices https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mars_landing

The advantage to powered landings is they work well for delicate stuff like people. Or in space X's case they are landing a really light shell and have a really powerful engine already attached.
Yes, that's what I do!
It seems like a really bizarre case from a European perspective. If one concluded that the theatre was liable for the actions of a gun carrying lunatic wouldn't the same apply for all service providers acting in public space? Concerts, bars, cafés etc would all be expected to prepare for terrorist-style shooting incidents. Whatever about the excessive cost of such preparations (which would be passed on to the consumer), the effect on public consciousness by constantly rubbing up against militarised zones would be horrible.
Hack it if you can
Sprint, Samsung achieve 230 Mbps download speeds in Soldier Field demo
Yeah, uglify only minifies the majority of javascript on the web and is downloaded a half a million times per day. But clearly you know better.
The question stands, what is a drug?
Why test the app design with only 5 users and not more
The longer I've been programming, the more I think that alignment is ideally a presentational feature that a syntax-aware editor should do, not something that should be reflected in the source.

But then tabs vs. spaces isn't an issue.
What is it with. "I don't believe in the war on drugs." "The amount wasn't that much." Make up your minds you schizophrenic fucks. Either you're for it or against it. Jesus Christ.
I'm not an Emacs guy but it's trivial to set the tab size on vim. I would be shocked if that were not also the case for emacs.
> No, believing otherwise is naive. Zuckerberg isn't lobbying for more H1Bs out of the goodness of his heart and a profound belief that labor arbitrage will make the world a better place

That's a silly caricature of what I said.

> If we're going to allow foreign workers, they shouldn't be shackled to employers like H1B workers are.

Agreed.
Australian geothermal power project closes as tech deemed not financially viable
I'm a relatively intelligent adult who hasn't previously considered any of these problems or spent much time thinking about infinity. This was perfect for me, I developed an understanding of the problem and solutions in a short amount of time. It was a great read and I felt like I learned something, not sure I can ask for more...

I guess what I'm saying is I'm not sure this is even targeted at children.
My new checklist for making programs easy to understand and work with in the future.

- Make the program in complete slices of a functionality and put those into folders and files that are descriptive of what the code does: "web/login/facebook/always_ask_for_email.lang"

- Do repeat yourself in different functionality areas.

- Name your variables and functions as if they should never conflict/as specifically as you dare.

- Use a functional and immutable programming language or write pure functions as much as possible.

- Stop thinking that patterns are necessary to solve the problem of turning data from one form into another.

I might be wrong.
They would also need access to the machine which you have your vault stored on which would be your laptop and your phone and nothing else.
A good lawyer will generally advise you not to take on near unbeatable odds or politely decline to take a case like this.
that's crap. self documenting code sometimes works...but not always. I love people that hand me HDL and say "it's self documenting." Then you open it, and wire names are "x_1245_to_y." Happened all the time when my students would turn in assignments. That stopped after they realized I graded the documentation too :).
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Try going to a concert or sporting event in that country sometime. It's totally ridiculous.
> employers can be exempted from that paperwork if the potential employee holds a master’s degree or is paid at least $60,000 annually.

Wow, I wasn't aware the bar was so low. Given the recent brazen misuse of the program I hope this goes through
Iridium is basically only still in business because of US armed forces (and maybe diplomatic services? though not sure how much field work they do..) operational dependencies. Editorial retraction, mea culpa: Wrong about the TACSAT statement here. See parent below for the
http://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-rise-and-fall-and-rise-... Post chapter-11 (2000), investors got the whole Iridium infrastructure at sub-pennies on the dollar. (Literally. They got it for the price of the _single launch_ (i.e., not including materials, R&D, labor, etc) of their multitude (60ish) of sub-orbitals.).

Which I'm sure they're selling at absurd prices thanks to Sept 11.

Editorial retraction, mea culpa, #2 [conflated the hell out of ARSOF, again, see below. The economic analysis + usage of Iridium still holds.] C-37 is USAF aircraft - this dude seriously compromised his personal security by making this talk [and implicitly, his identity] public. He's going to have the pleasure of having SSSS scribbled onto every airline ticket he purchases from now on, I'd wager.

Iridium was such a brilliant buy. ROI at must be absolute insanity.

@Dasmoth - 64 billion dollars in grey-money was allocated for "Overseas Contingency Operations" by the Omnibus bill last December. I'm sure SAIC/Northrup/whoever gets the contract to 'fix this hole' is going to be enjoying the 800 million they secure from the Pentagon to basically modify transmissions/upgrade the firmware of the phones to use Diffie-Hellman handshakes and AES haha.
Well, first off you make this (USE UNIQUE PASSWORDS) part of orientation, and maybe have part of orientation involve rolling dice and using the diceware list.

Then, you reinforce that by using some sort of SSO setup/service (you can outsource this to someone like okta.com if necessary), so that all internal systems never have a place to set a password. (e.g., don't make people set up separate accounts with passwords on the corporate jira or bitbucket server)

Basically, not training people to reuse passwords internally can help them to not reuse their one internal password externally.

Another possibility is to simply buy a password manager subscription for every employee and have it as a perk. That's a per-employee overhead of $20-30/year.
Many of the techniques you listed are subcategories of reverse engineering. In an ideal world, the code and comments are clear enough that no reverse engineering is necessary.

Given a bizarre method, would you rather see a clear comment or spend half an hour stomping through a commit log?
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Make it easier for them to change jobs

This is the most important of all. Also let them be free agents and even work for themselves if they choose to. That is how it is in other countries like Canada, Australia etc.
"Weaver had been pushing for, an acknowledgment that the theater chain would take new measures to protect patrons."

Another TSA at the cinema? No, thanks. We can't secure every step from mass shooting and/or terrorists attacks without making cities into the huge prisons. While our society functions normally and mass killings are very rare, there's no need to take additional security measurements. A much better way is to invest these money into mental health programs. So no, despite the alarmist tone on this article, the court ruling was sane and probably the best one in this case.
I noticed myself procrastinating and I wondered what I could do about it. So I created this to make it easier/more fun to get stuff done.

The idea is that when we commit to something publicly, we are more likely to stick with it. Humans evolved in groups, which demanded members' words be consistent with their actions.

Note on Signup: If you'd like to try it without a Facebook account, you can open up developer tools and unhide the hidden manual sign up div to sign up. I hid this because accounts with fake names were making the site look illegitimate, so please use something that looks reasonable, at least. :) Also, this website is best used with people you know after you've gotten a feel for it, IMHO.
Is that good thrust or not? I don't have a point of reference.
Other services also let you use the alias as a subdomain: example@alias.gmail.com. Wish Gmail added that feature. Do they have any place I can sent a feature request?

Another feature of Gmail is you can place dots anywhere in your email and it will still reach you: ex.am.ple@gmail.com. I haven't seen services that reject that so it is what I use when I can't use a +.
Why Super Nintendo Is the Reason You’re Still Playing Video Games
I never understood why anyone preferred Genesis over SNES. The only cultural impact left by Sega was its marketing strategy. Meanwhile, Nintendo made games that still remain iconic and playable.
> It's readable because if you've worked with Golang for more than a week, you basically know every language construct you'll encounter.

If you've used Brainfuck for more than 5 minutes, you already know the entire language. Is it the most readable language ever designed?

> I can usually just go to the source code if I'm trying to figure out how to use a library I just pulled in from clojars.

Will a cursory read of the source code either tell you how the library deals with corner cases, or convince you that such corner cases don't exist?
I just want to corroborate the poster with Brazilian data.
Yes there is a 'law' that requires prescription and safe keeping of records about each sell.
But as the same laws on every level they are only enforced at the middle class level (higher and lower class do not care).
I am Brazilian and I do wish that law was more pervasive but My wish do not turn the facts other way.
So yes, abuse in third world is rampant.

Facts
[1] - http://noticias.r7.com/bahia/remedios-vendidos-sem-autorizac...

[2] - https://www.google.com.br/#q=antibioticos+vendidos+irregular...
Not stupid is still a thing. You're describing "institutionalized" income classism, not racism. Dumbass. Also educationism. Is anybody not pants on head retarded?
It's basically mob justice over there, AFAICT
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There is an area where you can get gigabit fiber from THREE different providers.

1. Fiber put down as a deal for letting casinos in.
2. AT&T fiber to compete with google fiber
3. Google fiber
Crack and Cocaine are nearly identical from a chemical perspective, but not from how they are used and their effect: http://www.attn.com/stories/2643/crack-vs-cocaine

It's comforting to think it's all just a ploy to get at black people (like how cannabis was rebranded as "marijuana" because it associates it with those pesky Mexicans everybody hates) but there are valid reasons to be more afraid of crack than of cocaine despite both sharing practically the same active ingredient.

EDIT: I'm not saying the War on Drugs doesn't particularly affect people of color more than other groups, or whether that is intentional or not, but pointing at the active ingredients and saying "look, they're the same except racism" is simplistic.
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I would be interested to hear how you overpass those moments, when we simply have no energy left and feels like our startup is not bringing the ROEI (return on efforts invested).

Taking a couple of days out of the office to release some steam can work, but for me it was clear that this was not enough.
SHA1 isn't encryption, it's a hash function.
You can always learn something new on HN. ^^

I only ever read in articles about SpaceX.
I am in no way equating a 20 year effort by Erlang team to that of Elixir team. But I think Elixir is making the whole ecosystem much more accessible. I once tried to bring Erlang into our shop about 6-7 years ago but could not get the team excited about it, with Elixir we will be going into production this Fall and everyone loves it.
See my comment here: https://www.reddit.com/r/netsec/comments/50ggbn/the_dropbox_...
So here's the question:

* Can this be fixed?

If someone were to create a Twitter replacement that avoided this problem, what would it look like? How would it work? What would be different?

Or is this problem too difficult to solve?
While this is true, there might not have been much alcohol or much flavour in small beer.

And it's probably the boiling proces that really saved them, they just didn't know!
Yeah, but since in this case it doesn't really matter it's better to just do what most people are doing. There are no serious advantages to either one.
as an ex-CEO who offered stock to employees in lieu of pay because my startup was running low on funds, it was all rejected. i later found out when i left the room, some of the employees actually mocked me and made it seem like i was just trying to scam them. one of them said something like "he's offering us stock in a company that is basically worthless, does he think we are idiots?"

just to be clear, the company was not worthless. we were actually somewhat breakeven at that point, monthly revenue was around $15k and employee salaries were somewhere around $15-16k. the idea at the time was that if they accepted stock compensation instead of cash, the company could theoretically afford to hire more developers, or launch a more ambitious marketing campaign. i did not factor in the fact that these employees weren't invested in the company, and to them, the fact that we weren't making millions in revenue means we are broke. so they value the stock at zero.

just to conclude the story: i ended up selling my company to another large company for a small profit (not headline-making numbers), enough that i can live comfortably and continue pursuing entrepreneurship dreams while not being employed. the employees who would have received stock back when i offered it would have made a profit, although in all honesty it's not Google or Facebook money. just for fun, i did a quick calculation on how much one of the employees who refused the offer would have made in stock - it was roughly about $250,000 worth.
Then his (and your) grasp of grammar is a little off. The conversation until then had been contrasting LSD and booze.

Alcohol is most definitely the more destructive of those two.
I don't know if Rails allows to do this, but I'll try, thanks.
I imagine it depends on your country of origin and current standard of living. There's two salary averages of current H1B holders quoted in the article at less than 80K
Big economic ideas: Two out of three ain't bad
>> "Users need to know their passwords are exposed, and must be reset not as a preventative measure, but because they are almost certain to be compromised."

This should be assumed regardless of what is known if it's know a breach happened; meaning basic password hygiene should be followed, and I'm the case of Dropbox, if a user had any plaintext files with passwords to other accounts (yes, people still do this) - they need to change those passwords too.
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> In an ideal world, the code and comments are clear enough that no reverse engineering is necessary.

In an ideal world, perhaps. But in the real world, the comments contradict the code, the code attempts to use a software pattern which doesn't quite fit (and thus requires a large number of hacks to make it fit), so reverse engineering is your only real choice.

Aiming for an ideal world is never a bad thing, but even if I saw well documented code, I wouldn't trust it. The only difference is that after reverse engineering it anyways, I might feel a bit of surprise when I find that the comments were, indeed, correct.
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I haven't figured out literate programming with a large group yet, but I do use it (with org mode) for my own projects (solo or small group). A nice thing, at least with org-mode, is that I can choose whether or not to export a particular bit of content.

* This headline won't export :noexport:
These are some comments for the user and maintainers
of this document. Describing our formatting and
practices.
* This headline will export
And here's the text describing some message format.

And here's a table showing the layout:
| Word | 12-15 | 8-11 | 4-7 | 0-3 |
| 0 | WordCnt | TimeTag| ... | ... |

And here's the source for this as a C struct, but
it's a work in progress. So we won't export it yet.
#+NAME: MSGXXX_struct
#+BEGIN_SRC c :exports none
typedef struct {
...
} MSGXXX_t
#+END_SRC

No one has to see that stuff until I'm done with it. Or, other tags could be used so I can explicitly select what gets exported depending on the audience. The customer doesn't need the code (at this point). But fellow devs (local, or at partner organizations) may.
What really bothers be about this is that Dropbox hasn't bothered to reset the sessions. Even after I manually reset my password (which I wasn't prompted or forced to do btw), all my apps (iPhone, desktop etc) that have existing sessions wasn't expired. So for all I know, a hacker might already have an open session to my Dropbox and changing the password will not fix that

Clarification edit: I did receive the e-mail from Dropbox letting me know that I should change my password, but when visiting dropbox.com I was already logged in and wasn't prompted to perform the pw reset
Does anyone's company use Okta combined with Active Directory? It seems to work well for handling access to internal apps and integrates with a lot of the business focused SaaS, like Salesforce and our project management tool (Mingle atm).
It would be a problem that was largely solved if gun manufacturers held any liability - a far better target than the cinema. The protection of lawful commerce in arms act protects them.
If you know the preferences of the other person, its often an advantage for a non-regular cake because you can offer them a small amount of stuff they value more highly than you
What about dealing with mental health and guns? Both of these are hard but the guns one is pretty much untouchable unfortunately.
I'm not sure where they are getting their 25% figure for heroin in your linked article. They link to yet another article as a source, but I see no mention of the 25% there.

The claim seems to be that only 25% of people who try the drug once will end up being addicts. While I doubt this claim in itself, I think this percentage would go way up if you looked only at people who had reasonable access/resources to acquire more of the drug.

If you keep doing heroin (or any opiate) and have the access/resources to get more, you will get addicted.

It may take a few successive uses within a given amount of time, but beyond that you will have physical withdrawal symptoms, 100% of the time.

This is not the same as alcohol, pot, or LSD, all of which are not physically addictive in the same way.
That TL:DR is inaccurate.

All plaintiffs agreed to settle for a share of $150k rather than face the prospect of paying the legal costs of the theatre. One plaintiff (who was one of the plaintiffs getting a larger share) refused the deal at the final minute which meant there was no settlement for anyone. The next day the judge found for the theater and costs were assigned to the plaintiffs. At which stage there were only 4 left on the case as the others had withdrawn so im not sure if the 700k was between all original defendants or the 4 remaining ones.
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"I get that the right to consume any substance one wants into one's own body is a basic human right"."

To do that you have to posses it first, which is a felony. Felony != "human right". Whatever the fuck a "human right" even is supposed to mean. Dumbass
Maybe they co-evolve, with cancer becoming less deadly as it means that it can spread faster by using its host indefinitely.
Driving up onto the curb at speed could injure you. Is it better to hit a child who just ran out into the road because that better protects your safety?

Who gets to write the "within reason" code?
> Overall these theories provide a plausible and useful guide to the possible mechanisms by which a high-GI diet and dairy products can exert their effects in the pathogenesis of acne and can explain in part why people native to Papua New Guinea and Paraguay, living non-Westernized lifestyles, have no acne compared with more Westernized populations such as in Belgium (Table 2 and Table S1; see Supporting Information). However, they provide only the first step to understanding the link between diet and acne.

From http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bjd.13462/full
Well actually that one is pretty easy. If you are European you can ask for your European Health Insurance Card (free, valid for several years) which will cover you in the whole EEA as if you were a resident yourself.

The problem though is that if you have a chronic or permanent disease that requires continuous medication. Hospital will likely sort you out in a pinch, but if you need to stock up some pills you will need to go through the whole doctor chain (GP / Specialist / Various treatment trials ...) in each country (prescription do not cross borders). I have known people going back to their country on a regular basis just because that´s just a pain in the ass to go back to square one and start a several months ordeal only to end up with the medication you know is working.
Couple notes:

1. You're talking about a pop-up / new tab that somebody clicked while already on an attack site...

2. then loading google.com in this pop-up / new tab and, waiting a few seconds, and then changing the location of the pop-up / new tab

The vulnerability in question consists of landing up on google.com, logging in while still on google.com, then google.com sending you directly to an attack site after you finish logging in.

The user could come from an official looking email (a known and largely unavoidable problem), or from a link that somebody pasted (e.g. "click here to view my spreadsheet on Google Sheets") into a comment on a different trusted site. The "trusted site" is important to note, because as you might have deduced, no scripts or malicious intent is required on the part of the other site; just a link. In your example, the other site would have to either A) be compromised itself, to facilitate the script, or B) malicious itself.

Which of the workflows would you be more likely to fall for, your example or mine?
The experience of the Shuttle program demonstrated that taking off like a rocket and landing like a plane has a lot of problems that make it not as great as you might think. The wings, heat shield, etc are all pretty heavy - notice that the shuttle required two whole extra rockets and a disposable fuel tank to make it to orbit - and the heat shield required for landing like a plane turned out to be a huge problem (see: The Columbia Disaster).

Plus, it turns out that landing a rocket vertically is now possible. I'm not clear on if it's now possible thanks to advances in technology (particularly in automation) or if it's just that no one had tried it until now.
"People think it's black magic or something, but it's not. Any physicist worth his salt should understand how it works, or if they don't, they should change their profession."

This got me thinking about The Emperor's New Clothes. Be it that I'm not that bright to fully grasp how the RFRCT might actually function, the king is still naked to me.
You're overlooking the importance of competition when it comes to things like pricing and innovation.
So... The "rapid evolutionary response" was just for all the vulnerable ones to die off? That doesn't really seem like a response.

Edit: I don't see anything "rapid" happening either, except maybe the remaining members of the species procreating fast enough to not go extinct.