skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is the first time I've heard about Foreman, and it looks like it could be very convenient for development. I appreciate the attempt to abstract from process requirement details in the same way that Gemfiles do for gems. I think there's the germ of a good idea here.

The example for a production environment, however, is pretty unpersuasive. Tools like Passenger (mod_rails) dynamically start and stop processes depending on load, number of requests, etc. That is much more useful than just saying "start four mongrels".
This work is sufficiently preliminary that it isn't really worth reporting on yet. They have goals. They are building techniques and equipment. They plan to do experiments/data collection.

This may be interesting work at some point in the future, but not now.
Do they routinely add those goofy umlauts, too? In the English I was taught in school, we don't have such a character.

Each requires the coöperation... even others coördinating a response

Perhaps I'm over-sensitive, but this seems rather elitist.

Now, combine this with the citation of "A same-sex couple and their three-year-old son..., certainly, belonged together." Why mention their genders? Either the writer has an unhealthy fixation on other people's sexual preferences, or, worse, thinks that the fact that they're gay entitles them to special consideration. Not good either way.

I don't think I like their style.
Am I the only one absolutely terrified by that number?

Malthus wasn't wrong in principle, just in timescale. It's clear that technologies have improved Earth's human carrying capacity, but I don't know any method to claim that an S-shaped curve isn't inevitable.

It's sounds science fiction-ey, but I don't understand how you can see data like this and then defund NASA.
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Publicly announcing a security vulnerability, claiming that you're sharing it with other clients with the intent of using it for "weaponized ... offensive missions", and then demanding a fee to gain the information to protect against said weaponization, sounds an awful lot like extortion. In the offline world, I don't think you can legally run a business with a strategy of: discover a problem in the security at one of Exxon's plants, publicly announce that you've discovered a vulnerability and will be selling the information to third parties, and then demand $N from Exxon for the details.
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Sounds like it's Windows only, so I'd expect it to be related to the Windows sandboxing.
Wouldn't "the government" keep quiet about even having found an exploit? Why let VUPEN publicize this if they intend to use it?
I can download deb files from the web that install in one click. bin files work similarly
> Would you say HN is a mind-suck?

No, I've learned a lot through it.

> I'd still ask what's so wrong about being "unproductive" some of the time?

Nothing. But TV tends to make me unproductive for more of the time than I want.
Could be genes. No need to stare into the abyss of psychology to come up with a reason.
Funny thing is Google does actually pay for reported security bugs. Up to $3133.70: http://dev.chromium.org/Home/chromium-security/vulnerability...
I got three messages out of Schneir's thesis:

1) In any system of nominally co-operative elements, with ability for individual elements to flip between co-operating or defecting (to use the same game theory terms Schneir did) will have some fraction of those elements in 'defecting' mode.

2) He accepts as fact that perfect control over the choice of defecting or co-operating is impossible to achieve in the systems he's talking about.

3) He outlines a way to reason about the processes and measurements one can put into a system which maximizes for 'cooperation'.

Then Schneir applies this very good and universal tenet toward security. and finally points out that even if systems could achieve perfect control that would be net negative as the 'defectors' in the system can provide the mutation/change which improves the system overall.

It is a solid piece of reasoning which, in my opinon, applies to all systems, not just security systems. Systems that include groups of people, computer networks, air traffic control, commodity markets, Etc. All of them.

Take a Gaussian distribution and point at one of the wings and there be the 'dishonest minority' there. If you are a designing a system where the actors (or agents) in your system have the freedom to choose their own path through it, whether it is an MMORPG or a botnet or a homeless shelter, you have to consider (and prepare for) the fact that a portion of your system's population will be working against the system as a whole and if you don't want the whole system to collapse you need to heed Schneir's advice and layer in processes which 'self heal' or 'detect and deter' such defections. Otherwise your system will become unstable, and then collapse.
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you know that there is more than one government on earth... and all of them arent pro free-speech :)

Safer software for all, because it's a better thing that VUPEN discover the bug than if it's discovered by some criminals who keep it secret and scam/hack
Moon landing with humans has been done before but on Mars there seem to be still a few open problems. [1]
However, I would bet all my money and more, that Musk, SpaceX and co. will get the job done within two decades if not a lot sooner.

[1] This was posted on HN before by joey http://www.universetoday.com/7024/the-mars-landing-approach-...

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2479053
> my right to do with my work as I see fit

You mean your right to tell other people what they can or cannot do.

Copyright does not give you a right to do any more than you can anyway. It removes the normal rights of everyone else.

Without copyright you are still entirely free to sell copies of 'your' things. It is just that everyone else can too, so the normal functioning of the market will drive down the price so it will not suit you individually.

Copyright is really a privilege. It is something bestowed by the public, for the benefit of everyone.

> see how long I continue to make my new creations available

I suggest that might be a risky or weak strategy. People will create and communicate things anyway -- as they have been evolved to do. You will just be removing yourself from the cultural gene-pool.
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Your response reminds me very much of Atlas Shrugged. That idea is central to the book. I recommend it as an interesting read, though not everyone cares for Aynn Rand's style.
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"Why would the government want to break Chrome?" So they could run arbitrary payloads targeted at specific people.
Replying to myself: I misread it as saying 1.75 BILLION, not 175 million. In that case, never mind :D
The goal is not to forward packets blindly like a NAT. You emulate the NAT's behavior by running a TCP state machine in user space and converting packets to regular Android SDK calls. This is what all of the non-root tethering apps likely do, because raw socket access is not allowed.
I discovered these pages while looking for an OpenGL tutorial that actually used the new shader-driven style and not the deprecated fixed-function API. They're very good (although as others note, still a work in progress).
Totally valid point: it's a really different game with really different goals.
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We use the world population and average life expectancy to calculate births in a year. To connect these point estimates at the varying times in history we use a bounded exponential growth model for births.
It's a standard formation in some publications--e.g., the New York Times.
Nobody knows Feynman, believe me. Ask around on the streets and maybe one in 500 will have some idea (if you really ask randomly). Many people have "seen" Hawking, and they remember his physical condition and that he's very smart. Nobody knows what Hawking does and I'd even say that nobody knows that the name of the paraplegic genius is Stephen Hawking.

Jeannette Wing (CMU's head of CS) started a project sponsored by Microsoft called "Computational Thinking" where she tried to make CS a mainstream tool to make decisions in life. She's probably still working on it, but I always found the idea too vague to have any impact. I remember that Daniel Sleator thought the same when she first talked about it (I was there). http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~CompThink/
It's not built into the product, but Napkee (http://www.napkee.com/) can make both HTML/CSS/JS and Adobe Flex 3 versions of Balsamiq Mockups BMML files.
I would say Etsy have quite a lot of personality/quirkiness. Whether to like it or not is another matter :)

Edit: how could I forget TopatoCo (http://topatoco.com/).
The general public will not be excited by theoretical anything. They can get excited by fancy shiny new products with practical uses.
"it works on all Windows systems (32-bit and x64)"

They didn't say that the exploit didn't work on Mac or Linux, but one can only assume they tested those and weren't successful?
VUPEN know what they're doing. That's the difference.

They're an actual security company.
I'd imagine the high-ends of both professions have higher standards of class and behaviour than the lower-ends.
Just relying off the quote given: "VUPEN follows a private responsible disclosure policy and reports all discovered vulnerabilities to the affected vendor under contract with VUPEN…"

It makes it sound like if they crack your software, you only get disclosure if you are paying them money. However, I could be wrong.
While I'd clearly be wrong to state that there are no such people, I think it's important to note that even most people with the signs asking for money aren't doing so by choice. Once you're in a state where you really do need to beg for money for basic sustenance as such (which can happen surprisingly easily through no real fault of your own), it's really, really hard to get out, no matter how hard you try. And, in the meantime, while you are working to get out of it, you have to do something to live.

There is some (insufficient, at least in the US) help available from government programs and whatnot, but even non-participation in such things is not always necessarily by choice.

I've known a fair number of people who've worked their way out of poverty (my family among them), and I've known a larger number who have failed to do so by no real fault of their own. Your unkind generalisations are most definitely unwelcome.
I would recommend a Moon landing and a permanent base before we attempt to go for Mars.
I guess I'm not understanding your perspective.

From my perspective it seems you are being overly rigid when you are complaining about the usage of the word 'dishonest'. And I don't find your example useful because I believe it's triviality ignores what makes arguing over the definition of a word difficult in the first place.

Plus, from my perspective, I'd have no problem with the statement "bulls must, therefore, get angry when they see the color blue" if "blue" was previously redefined as meaning "red".
The release of this code should be an item on the product launch checklist.
You can, but I can't guarantee we'll be able to finish playing it. ;)
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This back-of-the-envelope calculation appears to be off by a factor of two, which isn't bad.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Number_of_huma...
What is this? Can someone give me an insight of these sources?
I'm pretty sure VUPEN asks for an order of magnitude or two more.

Hell, they don't even provide prices on their website, you can request quotes.
I want a kit! Would be good fun to play with.
Thanks for pointing it out - we fixed this to 200,000 B.C.
I can't speak to American politics, but it is with shame that I report that here in Canada, ourMinister of State for Science and Technology, Gary Goodyear, refuses to confirm that he believes in evolution:

I'm not going to answer that question. I am a
Christian, and I don't think anybody asking
a question about my religion is appropriate.

Well, gosh, asking the Minister of State for Science and Technology to discuss his belief in Science is asking him about his religion. And here's the rub: This was widely reported and we Canadians sent this team back into office for another four years with a majority.

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/article320476.e...

Can I really blame Mr. Goodyear? Or our system? Or should Canadians have a good, hard look at themselves in the mirror?
HL-7 is a standard, and many many apps already do this. Getting companies to change away from hl-7 due to it being "cryptic" is pretty much going to be a show stopper.
I always wondered why they didn't put an ad during install process. There could be a google ads type of system where people could buy ads and get served impressions in installations. Or something like that. There are numerous ways to do this.
people were telling the same about HBGary before they started to tell the opposite. Though my post isn't about technical brilliance. Being in bed with Power and relaxing one's moral standards to better serve it always leads the same way....
Yes, I was thinking of this case specifically when I wrote. If memory serves, that young man found the thing and asked on ... twitter? Facebook? some web site "Is this a tracker?" then the feds got all snippity about getting the device back.

I was thinking more of what happens if a person silently dislodges it... into a lake. Or the neighbor's truck who happens to be travelling cross-country for the next 3 months and says nothing to anyone about it. I wonder what the actual (as opposed to legal) ramifications would be.
>several of the group’s sites had been hacked in a coup d’etat by an administrator who decided that he didn’t like the leaderless command structure that AnonOps Network Admins use.

Thats poor planning. A coup doesn't work within an structure where the only authority is whoever you feel like going along with today. Then again anonymous is a train-wreck happening again and again powered only by internet drama, so I can't say I'm surprised.
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I'm cool with that too, but then Nokia/Trolltech should say so. The current position is "well, embedded users can use Qt Lighthouse" which doesn't mean a thing at this point.

All the more reason to fork, as jsherer has noted right below this.
this error is because of assumptions about the life expectancy, right?
What's your point? Not interested? This may be the last one from them. I've also submitted some of their stuff, so you can police me as well. HN encouraging one-sided content. Good luck, mainstreamers.
Don't downvote people because you disagree with them, dagnammit.

His is a valid position, he explains his reason for holding it even. Please disagree, but recognise that his view is worthwhile and well presented given the context.
There's nothing wrong with this. It's a high level implementation of a memory system. The memory locations are represented as a JSON object:
{ 1: "some data", 2: "foo" ... }

It's not really needed in JavaScript but I remember implementing something similar in C for school.
See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2521488
That works as long as the exploit is known. What happens when it's not?
Can you give us more information regarding the mage recognition technology? I am very interested to learn more about how you go about it, or what is different about the way you employ your technology...

Also, great great app!
You are not alone. If you want to get more scared, read http://www.amazon.com/Collapse-Societies-Choose-Fail-Succeed....

Interestingly from the population statistics alone it is possible to make an argument about the total likely future number of humans that will live. There is debate about whether the reasoning is correct, but it is at least suggestive. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doomsday_argument for more.
I'm putting much more faith in commercial spaceflight programs (Scaled Composites, SpaceX, Armadillo) for advancing space exploration/colonization than I do in NASA. Even their early work shows that their marginal costs are many orders of magnitude less than NASA's funding. This is one of those areas where market forces will beat out the government hands down.
The sad state of engineering or "Jobs ranked 3rd in Engineering Heroes list"
i'm sure there is a more accurate prediction out there (explained in papers) by researchers who have spent way more time and effort into this subject. for us common folks, there's even a wikipedia answer:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_population#Number_of_huma...
This engineer from IBM was telling me that he there was enough highly reactive lithium in his laptop battery to destroy 25 747s- the only thing stopping most people was that a lack of education. Anyone with a basic knowledge of organic chemistry is a potential terrorists- and the worst part is that they teach organic chemistry at elite liberal college- or madrasas as the terrorists call them..

"There are three ways to make napalm. One, mix equal parts of gasoline and frozen orange juice. Two, equal parts gasoline and diet cola. Three, dissolve kitty-litter in gasoline until the mixture is thick." -- Tyler Durden.
I've started to take long walks every morning. It clears the mind and removes the restlessness I used to feel from sitting for so long.
One interesting fact regarding population growth is that worldwide, having children on aggregate is a inferior good: if parts of Africa and Southeast Asia can make some significant gains in the next few decades, we will likely see population peak sometime this century.
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It was hard to ignore the 800% spike in traffic. ;)

Before I even get an idea for a theme or a mechanic (or a constraint), I look for inspiration outside of my head. I watch movies, read comics, and play games in other media. Oh! I actually documented this process on my blog for a recent game.

I got hooked on this web game: http://www.tonypa.pri.ee/jorinapeka.html

Then tried adapting it to tabletop with this prototype: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/in-lab-jorinapek...

After several iterations, it became a very different game in its own right: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/utara.html

Which had many enthusiastic players at a recent convention: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/playing-utara-di...

It was so well-received, I had dice professionally produced and documented the costs of the process: http://danielsolisblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/etched-utara-dic...

Anyhoo, hope all that helps if you decide to go into board game design. :)
I'd be surprised if they _didn't_ make one for honeypot bicycles.
On what basis have you formed this doubt?
IIRC they introduced the toggle button for Time Machine in Leopard and it was slightly weird. Why not stick with a checkbox?

Then they released the original iPhone with all it's slidey touchy interaction and it became obvious why they were introducing new UI widgets.
Do police protect inner city poverty-stricken people victimized by gangs?

It's pretty easy to argue that police only protect those who pay them.
Newspaper ... what is this thing you speak of?
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They will sell this with "think of the children" thing again, I am sure. Pisses me right off.

We fought this in the UK in the disguise of deep-packet filtering at the ISP's, that one floundered from the off but dragged out its demise for a good while before being sheleved.

Then France gave it a go with Loopsi, and unfortunately they seem to have managed to set a precedent for filtering/monitoring/blocking. It was only a matter of time before the EU got involved.
To be honest, I think it's perfectly fine for the FBI to do this if there's judicial oversight.

The problem is there ain't.
Need solid MOU template for our first customer.  
I'd greatly appreciate it if someone could share a good MOU template tailored to a startup company.
This is probably why they keep repeating that their customer is the government. You could probably sell Exxon's security vulnerabilities to the government and demand $N dollars from them to show them how to fix the problem. It's advertising the vulnerability with posts like this that seems most questionable (similar to extortion) to me.
All complex systems contain parasites. In any system of cooperative
behavior, an uncooperative strategy will be effective -- and the system
will tolerate the uncooperatives -- as long as they're not too numerous
or too effective. Thus, as a species evolves cooperative behavior, it
also evolves a dishonest minority that takes advantage of the honest
majority. If individuals within a species have the ability to switch
strategies, the dishonest minority will never be reduced to zero. As a
result, the species simultaneously evolves two things: 1) security
systems to protect itself from this dishonest minority, and 2) deception
systems to successfully be parasitic.

That would be a pretty good description of IP. IP is in economic terms non-rival and non-excludable. It turns out that a free market does not work for goods that are non-rival and non-excludable (by "work" I mean reach a theoretical optimal allocation of resources to production). We developed a cooperative behavior in order to make it so a free market would work for such goods--basically by PRETENDING that IP is rival and excludable.

Some chose not to cooperate, and ignore that. As long as they are not too numerous, the system as a whole does not break down. The majority pretends that IP is rival and excludable, so pay creators for their creations, and creators get paid roughly in proportion to the demand for their works, and thus creators tend to create the works that the consumers want.

DRM has been developed to attempt to limit the effects of the uncooperative, and the uncooperative have developed systems to try to make it harder to detect piracy.
I'm still not completely getting it. Let's say in some year there are a billion people alive and the average life expectancy is 50 years. How are these two pieces of information sufficient to determine how many children were born in that year?
why do they announce it at all then?
One of the most mentally productive times of my life so far was when I had a 1 hour (each way) commute in a car with no CD player. I was alone in my thoughts for an hour a day with absolutely 0 distractions. Driving was just enough to keep my brain awake, but could get a low enough thread-priority to let me think.

I've replaced the driving with biking (I live a lot closer to my job now), but it honestly isn't quite as good. Some of the stuff I came up with then (this was about a year and a half ago), I'm still fleshing out now.

Another thing that's close to driving, but not quite as good is yard work. Something about the sound of lawnmowers and weed whackers is really conducive to thinking.
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I've done my time helping people out on various fora, mostly comp.lang.python, and seen this sort of thing in reality. If it's satire, the tipoff is too small. I've seen "stupider" (or "beginninger" or some other term, if it makes you fell better, I haven't got a good one).
The thesis that nobody has every popularized any branch of science is wrong. There used to be a tradition of having seminal books like The Origin of the Species being aimed at being understandable to a large audience of educated people. And books in that vein still do appear, for instance Guns, Germs and Steel is both a popular book and a serious academic work.