skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
...limit potential damage that can happen if a vulnerability is exploited.

Security aspects are a much more likely reason for using sandboxing than carriers complaining is. Plus, sandbox is already available from C -- see: `man 7 sandbox`.

Anyway, I imagine tptacek (or anyone who knows more about security than I do) can explain this better than I can, but, I'll give it a shot: In limiting your process, you're preventing an unknown state from happening within your process. Its another level of control that you can use to ensure that your program will only do what you programmed it to do and that it can't do anything else.

One part of how this sandboxing works is that any process spawned will also be contained within the sandbox. So, say there is a vulnerability -- in your code, in a gem you use, whatever -- the point is, there is a vulnerability. Maybe it will give an evil nasty person remote access to your system, or perhaps a local user can use it to gain privileges that they shouldn't have. Or something else that I'm not thinking of.

Anyway, as a result of a vulnerability, the user now has access to your system. Or maybe they have more access than they should. You can use Sandbox to forcibly limit how much access a process and child processes can have. You can make it so that a process can't write to any directory except the temporary directory that it uses and block access to the internet. Make it harder for the evil nasty person to break, steal or otherwise continue doing things that they shouldn't be doing.

// edit: to summarize: No matter how safe your Ruby code happens to be, if you use an unsafe C extension, you're screwed if you're not using sandbox(7).
Yeah, law firms do this all the time. They sniff that they MAY be the slightest hint of a lawsuit and then they put out press releases and run Google ads trolling for clients. It's also sort of a litmus test to see if they can get some media attention (even though the lawsuit barely exists) which in turn generates more clients, and negotiating power.

Remember, in America you can sue anyone for anything so for a lawfirm to not even file, only be retained, says a lot.
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Will the tech expo have a defined floorplan? If they do and you can get it in advance and they are not printing their own maps, consider printing a map of the venue in the style of / like a wedding seating chart (with your logo somewhere near the legend).
The title isn't very descriptive of what's actually in the article, but the article itself is a very good insight to the 4chan mentality.

If you are doing any kind of a social/crowd-sourcing website, you need to understand the topics mentioned in this article, or it will bite you.
Maybe that can be your tagline...

"Streaming what the masses think are the best...brutality and all"
Good point. That's kind of why we started AppSumo. Providing a buffet of peoples favorite apps to try longer than 14 days and discover other cool sites they may not have heard of.

A fair amount convert to paying users after trying the services which is why we can provide the initial deal at a good price.
Ask HN: Fine Physics?
Do you think physics needs to be divided into Hard physics and Fine Physics to distinguish cosmogonic and eschatological speculations from local physics with practical applications? My justification for this division is here: http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/hard-physics-versus-fine-physics/
If you have a little more time my favorite view is from Skegg's Point near El Corte de Madera (http://www.openspace.org/preserves/pr_ecdm.asp) above Woodside (Take King's Mountain Rd and turn left at the top onto Skyline).
http://science1.wordpress.com/2010/10/03/hard-physics-versus...
That would actually be an improvement.. I'm just as often bored even when involved in activities or (the pretty rare now) social events.
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Yes, this is what the law provides for. See the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission's guidelines: http://www.eeoc.gov/policy/docs/religion.html#_Toc203359518

--
A religious accommodation claim is distinct from a disparate treatment claim, in which the question is whether employees are treated equally. An individual alleging denial of religious accommodation is seeking an adjustment to a neutral work rule that infringes on the employee’s ability to practice his religion. The accommodation requirement is “plainly intended to relieve individuals of the burden of choosing between their jobs and their religious convictions, where such relief will not unduly burden others.”[118]
Ok, I'm really unsure, I was absolutely certain this whole article was a joke. But the comments don't seem to reflect that. This is actually happening? Putting your kids to sleep with an iPhone? What ever happened to singing?
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Hardware:

- MBP 15" i5 + 22" LCD monitor, using the MacBook keyboard with a magic mouse

- iPhone 3G 16gb. Maybe upgrading in a couple of weeks.

- Moleskine, actually a big fan of this, with many versions on sight.

- Moleskine DD, http://www.zonageek.com/2007/4/23/the-geekster-moleskine

Software:

- Textmate with many bundles to handle the everyday need. Also PeepOpen, works great.

- Terminal, a couple of docked tabs with Visor (http://visor.binaryage.com/) rest with normal windows

- ZSH, Oh My ZSH is a great starting place http://github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh

- Omnifocus on my iOS devices and desktop

- Github, gity, git

- Evernote, to keep all that matters to me in a handy searchable place

- Dropbox, my favorite sync/backup tool, besides my external harddrives, works great for development.

- Homebrew, easily the nicest and cleanest way to handle software install on your mac.

- RVM, best option if you develop on Ruby or want to use some ruby goodness
Skyline Drive: avoid it on a bike, as he says, there are crazies. However there are 30,000 acres of parks and hundreds of miles of trails and roads off Skyline. El Corte Madera a few miles north of the 84 junction (Alice's Restaurant) which 10's of miles of old logging roads. Good hiking too.
Cool, keyboard shortcuts are great, but easy to forget, so visual controller are always good.
I hate when tech people do this. The source that the coolness is paying off is an Owen Thomas article about ONE quarter of profitability (5.1M) in 2009? I'd say the verdict is more than still out.

That being said, Virgin is interesting in that they are attempting to compete on brand instead of on price. Part of the problem with all the other airlines is that everybody flies whichever is cheaper, leading them all to race to the bottom.

There is more than enough meat in the concept above to have a discussion. We don't need to hold it up as PROOF OF CONCEPT with flimsy evidence just yet.
As have about 10 other so far.

As an FYI, we're only writing up 1 tonight (AnyNewBooks?) and will sort thru the rest for posting soon.

I really do appreciate the submissions though. Please, keep them coming. I live for this stuff.
Headline bait...
How do I save my edits?
Until now, it has been generally assumed that WinTel is insurmountable, because of Metcalfe's Law; established software base. Therefore, MS will always continue to reap from the general growth in computer use.

The iPad showed that a new class of computers, framed as limited function devices can successfully establish a beachhead in the enterprise, challenging Microsoft's hegemony without having to run Microsoft software. Apple has also succeeded into cultivating a thriving ecosystem of Apple developers.

At this stage, all bets are off, and Microsoft has never been so insecure or vulnerable since its early days.
I would still have to disagree that the communist form of government is good in all situations, or if good at all. A single party government can as easily cause surefooted definitive action in mass killing (like the Nazi's), or subjugation of people of a nation (Venezuela, China under Mao), or fast development (Singapore and China under Xiaoping).

It completely depends on the nature, intentions and wisdom of the leadership.

On India, being socialist, yes in the official name. For practical purposes, it was(please note the past) controlled semi-capitalism, where the control was used to line up the politicians and bureaucrats pockets. - if you are an indian, you might recognize this term "license raj"

Thank god for capitalism, it ain't perfect, but its the best out there.

About the indication of the strengths of a communist form of governance, nope your example doesn't take into consideration certain very important factors working here. If you compare India and China - China had a head start of 20 years, when Deng Xiaoping opened up China to the West for setting up their factories, in the 70's. India started opening up only in early 90's under P.V. Narasimha Rao (and, to give due credit - Dr. Manmohan Singh the then Finance minister and current Prime Minister)

So, its more an example for 'its better to have wise leaders as early as possible' than 'communist form of government is better than non-communist governments'

my $0.0000002
It's just not as cool to buy from Amazon as from Apple.
This article seems quite careful to skirt around how much contact the mother has with the baby.
Rob Walker's stuff is very good.
The Santa Cruz Mountains are in the way.
Scientists find alternate pathway by which memories are stored in the brain
At least it rules out a lot of (most?) Fortune 500 companies. It might not rule out my employer, but it would probably rule out quite a few business units within my employing company.

I'd say it absolutely rules out Microsoft. ;-)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_abortion is as good a place to start as any.
So is this the inevitable redditification of HN following the exodus from Digg to reddit?
"Love and stuff," ha ha
I feel like this is clearly targeted at English speakers. Implementing alternative languages would be trivial anyway.
Sad to see. I had the chance to work with the 12seconds guys a couple years ago, and they were just about the nicest folks you could imagine. I hope they go on to bigger and better things.
Yep, definitely another reason not to leave the entire template render to Javascript.
Why Europeans Are Not Buying Into DLP
I need help on this too! The huge update to my app just got released, and so far I've just emailed some bloggers about it. It got featured on TUAW, but so far that's been it - not complaining of course!

Any ideas?
> People don't suddenly become vile and dangerous at 49° N.

A fair number of people north of that line think that about a lot of the people immediately south of that line... I'm speaking somewhat facetiously as a Canadian, but the degree of anti-US sentiment can sometimes be irrationally and absurdly high. For all that it is still much easier for skilled immigrants to get into Canada than the US.
Ask HN: Want a Hacker Book App?
Hi guys,

Yesterday I wrote up a list of books that I pulled from HN using Google.

Today it was posted here and became popular for a bit.

Looking at the comments, I have to agree that there were a lot of good books that got left out. I mean heck, at the end of the day the results came back however Google sorted them, and I only did the first few pages of search results. It wasn't much fun taking all day to type in books, but from the voting here it looks like it had some value to you guys.

So, I guess I would be a completely bad HN'er and wouldn't have learned anything from being here if I didn't ask you guys the obvious question: should this become a small app instead of just a blog entry? I was thinking something along the lines of RottenTomatoes, only for startup books. I could harvest data from several technical sites and aggregate in one place.

I can't promise to listen to any of your opinions (so what's new there?) but I'm interested in what the community thinks about the app. I know there's a boatload of other book-type apps out there, but nobody doing the meta-harvesting thing like I describe. Plus it's something I could hack together in a week, month tops. And I'm working on very similar code right now for my other project, code which would drop quite nicely into something like this. Might make for a nice testing platform.

Worthwhile useful idea -- something that people want -- or just another wannabe web application?
I'm completely ignorant about that. Are mail clients that problematic? Mail.app seems to do a good job at link detection.
I, too, would be interested.
Tapioca Express ("TapEx" to its teenage regulars) is the one across Villa from Red Rock. I agree, it's always got a few flies buzzing around and the drinks are a bit too syrupy.

Now, Tea Era, that's the good stuff, especially the cheese milk tea. Seriously.
Having failed to prevent a permit grant at the local level [1], it seems like they wanted to make a showing of exhausting their administrative remedies, and 'historical preservation' is the preferred lever in this particular neighborhood.

Having said that, I wouldn't want to work there. Food only smells good when you're hungry.

1. http://www.dupontcircleanc.net/minutes2010/january2010minute...
Paul Graham’s “Lucky Office” is New York City
The reason I made it about Silicon Valley in the literal sense (rather than the sense in which "Silicon Valley" means the intersection of startup and Bay Area) was simply to keep it a manageable length.
Not saying this isn't a good deal, but when I've bought books in bulk, I'm not as compelled to get the most out of each one. It's like getting a zip file of 250 games for your Nintendo emulator.
How Goldman Sachs values each Microsoft division
So that sounds like a BOEC, no?
The government could do things like building roads, but they are usually just using that extra paper to pay off their debts, which makes investors demand a higher interest rate to hold the debt, which leads to a vicious cycle. Inflation is caused by the speed of money creation exceeding the speed of creation of real value, and the banking sector is not the only actor in the money creation process.
Some people have already mentioned going to see Apple HQ. I remember driving on I-280 in the late nineties when Jobs had just gotten back to Apple and they were doing their Think Different campaign. There was a huge billboard of Einstein right by the exit to the Apple campus. I had been an Apple fan since the early eighties; to see this and know their founder was back and they were doing great things again literally brought a tear to my eye. ;)
Javascript Koans: Follow the Path to Javascript Enlightenment
You might want to have a look and see how CloudMade <http://www.cloudmade.com>; has been commercializing OSM data.
Hopefully the U.S. won't ever have to deal with this type of issue (out of control inflation). I'm very surprised that inflation hasn't hit the U.S. yet in a big way, but from what I hear that is because China and the U.S. are buying U.S. treasury bonds in a big way.
I would assume that the Brazilian real is named after the Portuguese real which does mean "royal". It is an odd name in a democratic country, though.
Japan issued a travel alert
Never noticed before that Google doesn't really seem to like if you try to look at their offices in Street View: http://maps.google.com/maps?q=charleston+road+mountain+view&...
Microsoft is supporting the development of Moonlight (an open-source implementation). The only part that Microsoft won't license is DRM.

It can't be compared Flash - Adobe has shown NO interest in helping open-source implementations.
Now the hardest part to pronounce becomes "shoutkey" itself :)
Interesting--has a tone one step removed from BOFH.
i don't believe my eyes. You're right, and i was wrong. The law does provide for preferential treatment on the basis of religion. Time for non-religious people to stand up and fight against the discrimination

Btw, thank you for the information and bearing up with me :)
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> Given that the use of abortifacients is well documented for the entire duration of recorded history, this seems unlikely.

From your link, it appears abortion has been controversial for the entire duration of recorded history. It would be accurate to say that some past societies would view current abortion practices as barbaric, but perhaps not all past societies.
you mean somewhere like zimbabwe trying this? It would be particularly tough since they have 1000% monthly inflation or some other insanity.

i don't think zimbabwe has enough control on their economy to pull this off.
If you have to add money to it to keep it running that would be one very good motivation to call it quits, another is that you see bigger opportunities elsewhere but you can't focus on those because of the albatross around your neck.
Really you mean, "I think they're idiots because..."

There are many reasons someone might want to buy a Rolex, of which quality is just one.

Why are they idiots for having reasons you disapprove of?
Some startups that used the .NET stack:

-Stackoverflow: http://stackoverflow.com/

-Agile Zen: http://agilezen.com/

The framework you use to develop doesn't matter. If you like .NET go with it, if you like RoR go with it.
For costs, you can take a look at the BizSpark program from MS, you can get all MS products you need for $100 for 3 years, then you pay for it.
look for local tech conferences, bar camps, ignite... where do you live? also consider going to a conference or something like sxsw if you are in a remote area
Let's make closures easy
I saw that but I felt it was a bit too overt and pushy. A regular "Like to interact"-style feature is pretty common on FB and easier for a user to wrap their head around. http://www.facebook.com/oreo to see some examples. Holler if you need any help: tlack@fanbldr.com.
any number x, where x is a positive integer greater than 1
Leaving Las Vegas (if they can)
Stuffing Javascript into DNS names
Looks like an excellent learning tool for newbies. :)
Tolkien isn't racist though in the Aryan sense, for sure - he hated Hitler an thought Jews were the same as everyone else, if not better. In the lore, Aragorn's bloodline was blessed by the Gods, pretty much - like hercules' bloodline. It's not just that he was the right kind of white.
This sounds cool. I would also be quite interested.
Wow. Last night I was thinking... if I was a supermarket manager in an inflation-ridden country, how would I save money by not changing price tags everyday? And my answer was to set one of my products as "1 Unit" and just price every other product in multiples of that "Unit". That way I only had to change the price of a single product!

And then today I read this! What a coincidence! I never would've thought you could scale up this technique up to do it to the whole country!
Oops, I made a serious typo earlier - 2k a month.
Which would explain lead investors and other ideas about market signaling.

It also explains recent posts on lying on stage and PR efficiency.
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Challenge HN: Block YouTube, Facebook, Google, Flash, etc for a day
Recently I have been working to minimize distractions and increase motivation through a number of steps. One step I took was to block a number of domains Sunday through Friday. Www.youtube.com was one of said domains and doing so opened my eyes to just how pervasive YouTube embeds are on internet.

I challenge HN readers to block one or more domains for 24 hours. You will quickly notice just how often the blocked tendrils will leave blank/broken areas in sites.

A few good domains to block are www.facebook.com, www.youtube.com, twitter.com, or even just flash completely.
ARPU Mobile App Advertising
How much money do most free mobile apps make off of advertising per user/month?

Just wanted to get insight into the data points. Links to sources would be great.

Thanks.
From the guy's twitter, he's looking for a new job, which is good because he seems deeply dissatisfied. However if anyone manages to put together his resume with this website, he'll have himself and the shitty economy to blame for not finding anything. http://twitter.com/goneaway/status/5392805101
True but there is also such a thing as money being too tight which is the current situation in the US.
When I read the title I thought 'Why the hell would I want to know how to stop humor online.' The article is interesting and would be better served by a title like:

Humor on the web and why to stop it (if you run a community site)
eg. Wells Fargo, Fidelity Investments (where I had my first job), etc... they seem to have the 'cheaper' better mantra, view tech as a cost center, and like outsourcing too much.
I am not necessary talking about wall street.
Upvote for sharing that tidbit on vanhalen. Cracked me up.
I think this is a new step towards commoditization of the ipad and a step forward in making it wildly available before the wave of android-base tablets makes it there first.

Points for amazon getting this deal as this means pretty much a new level of customers for our apps.

That's why I shared it.

BTW I didn't know it was against the hn rulz to add ur referral to news... as every single tech blog and news outlet out there is pasting their own tags on the link... and yes it was free of charge :)
My personal experience with VA, unlike other domestic carriers in the US, is that they don't treat you like it's a privilege that you get to fly at all. Domestic carriers treat customers as if they are doing them a favor, rather than providing a service to a paying customer that you hope will come back again.

This is the same way Southwestern does it too. It's amazing how some politeness can go a long way to brand loyalty in the US air market.
Reminds me of jottit.com, only that is for Markdown.
Would you pay $1.99/month for newswire app on iPhone?
I'm working on creating a mobile newswire app for the tech vertical. The following are the features that the app would have:

1. Headlines limited to 140 characters or less for quick consumption
2. Social sharing news via Twitter, Facebook, SMS and Email
3. Sentiment analysis - green for positive stories; red for negative stories; yellow for neutral stories; blue
for sponsors; orange for announcements
4. Four tabs - recent stories, trending stories, badges and options pages
5. Recent stories will show all stories in a chronological order
6. Trending stories will show top 10 most voted stories
7. 18 badges will give incentives for users to launch/use the app regularly and increase engagement
8. Options page will have users resubscribe to the app, manage push alerts and a host of other options
9. Push notifications for instant breaking news alerts
10. Shake device for positive-only, negative-only, neutral-only and regular story listings
11. Advertise “TrendOY!” on social sharing services with page branding
12. Integrated advertising/sponsorships to increase revenue
13. In-app browser to make reading full stories easy and efficient
14. Offline viewing for older stories
15. Search archives going as far back as 5 days
16. Keyword alerts to customize story alerts - user can select specific keywords to receive stories they are
interested in

The idea is that people with mobile devices don't have a lot of time to sit there, pull up an article on the NYTimes or WSJ app and read it in its entirety. They want their information quick in bits and pieces so they can stay in the loop and move on to the next piece of information. We promise to deliver that information in tweet-like headlines and help you on move.

Would you pay $1.99/month for an app as a subscription? What features could we add to make it worth the $1.99/month price?
On the contrary, googlers lined the street when the street-view-mobile came by:

http://maps.google.com/maps?q=charleston+road+mountain+view&...

Amusingly, their faces are blurred out even though they clearly wanted to be in the shot.

The link you gave is to an inner parking lot. It's interesting that it's "fogged out." I've never seen that elsewhere in Street View.
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