skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
DOJ is likely to lose e-book antitrust suit targeting Apple
I'm not sure that is true. If the link automatically decrypts the paste then you could use server logs to get the plaintext of the document.
JK Rowling's New Book 'The Casual Vacancy' Announced
Wait! There's a huge, insulting assumption in there (or two). Perhaps I'm attracted to her genuine concern for 3rd world peoples, impressed by her large, loving non-standard family and in agreement with her political views! The sex thing is just, you know, gravy.
Hi, we're working on getting the full product ready so it's just an invite page at the moment. Did you have any specific queries?

What OS are you running? We tested on Firefox so should work. Relies on having a Facebook account right now so could that be the issue?
Safe yourself the click (or worded differently, don't give pageviews to this junk).

It is a 10 page slide show. Original title is "Slide Show: 10 SQL Injection Tools For Database Pwnage". There are not even links to the tools.

Here is the print view, all 10 slides in one page: http://www.darkreading.com/taxonomy/index/printarticle/id/23...
I'm not sure how this is any different than a pastebin service over https. The data is encrypted in teh browser meaning that someone won't be able to snoop (if that's a concern for some reason) but there is nothing stopping the server admins from seeing your data as long as the server is storing the encrypted data and the decryption keys. Am I missing something?
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Human nature doesn't change just because we pump a few billion dollars into figuring out how to get girls to love STEM. It'll never change.

If women's interest in CS is purely fixed by human nature, how do you account for the precipitous drop over the past decades? Women got 37% of the CS degrees in 1984 but get way fewer now.[1]

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~women/resources/aroundTheWeb/hostedPa...
Pinterest becomes the 3rd largest social network website in US
Top Rules for Installing New Playgrounds
This is brilliant and well explained - I saw where you were headed just before you got there. And had a little clap of delight to see my suspicions were correct.

However, don't you think the reason for the success of Maxwell is because the objects it describes are well behaved and can be completely described by a set of partial differential equations? Where as the constituent atoms (hehe) of software are themselves complex objects - more than just point particles whose state can be completely described by say a wave function. And their behvior effectively solvable by simple deduction from physical postulates and the axioms of mathematics. I believe I saw a story about Feynman deriving a bunch of partial differential equations to predict the behavior of a program. But I do not think such an approach is scalable.

But the core of your idea I believe is that by specifying invariant in some theory which encapsulates the possible evolution of all possible programs then you can write programs far more simply? Essentially the next level of a synthesis of programming with unit tests, data and automatic programming. I believe the main impedance to this (I think) is that any such general evolution function would be incomputable. And where as with Maxwell equations the space is limited and the boundaries defined and embodied and easily deductively traversed, for a program the search space would be massive and difficult to search effectively. In effect, I believe you have just specified an AI complete problem.

Notice also that even a classical theory like general relativity yields few analytic solutions and numerical simulations are expensive. Perhaps this hints at why a unified theory is so difficult to come by? While the constituents are still simple particulates, the size of a theory/program which encompasses in totality all possible behaviors in nature might require a chain of reasoning so deep it lies beyond the ken of unaugmented humans. I believe a unified theory of efficiently searchable programs would be even more difficult - such a theory would yield a unified theory of nature as a special case.
Somebody asked for a live stream - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/freerange-printer

Send a message or a picture using the demo apps

http://printer-mail.herokuapp.com/send/freerange

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None. It takes computer-eons to entangle, then they don't last long enough to transmit any great distance.
Yammer acquires UK collaboration specialist OneDrum
I disagree. If you live any where near a university, you can usually walk right into their library, even if you aren't part of the university. I don't do it on a regular basis, but the breadth of knowledge available at say, the UW, library is vastly greater than whatever Sir Isaac Newton had access to.
For future reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technological_unemployment#Earl...
Did you try https://www.iubenda.com ?
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Yes, but what are the unskilled masses to do? Unless we start shovelling them money, are they to starve? What made America great was that an average person could have a house and car working 40 hours a week, what is going to happen to that?
If you want you can generate a readable privacy policy with iubenda (https://www.iubenda.com), while TOS are coming soon :)
paste.pocoo.com has nice a nice diff viewing feature.
http://paste.pocoo.org/compare/580131/580130/
I believe Eurisko and Automated Mathematician generated programs that could be interpreted in such a manner. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automated_Mathematician
How to multiply numbers within seconds
you are missing something, read their project page which states:

"The key is never transmitted to the server, which therefore cannot decrypt data."

but it does seem like the resulting queries could be stored in the servers logs, as the key needs to be part of the request? edit: no it doesn't, I needed to read more :) the key is the anchor part of the URL. neat!
From my understanding, the link contains 2 parts -- paste ID, and decryption key _following_ a "#". Assuming the latter isn't going into the server logs (I believe the fragment identifier isn't sent in headers at all, unless there's JS on the page to tell the server about it), the actual decryption seems to be taking place via javascript (as well as the encryption to begin with), and therefore the encryption key has no reason to be sent to the server at any point.
Interesting. I'll still stick with KDE paste for their api, but seems promising
Calibre is an open source e-book management software that you can use to read an .epub or convert to .pdf

http://calibre-ebook.com/
Perhaps they are only truly random until they are observed. After which they become deterministic. :)
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Hosting can be handled much more efficiently / easily by someone designed just for content distribution, like a CDN. Our own site is 100% server from a CDN, which makes for very nice scaling characteristics. Also, it's free right now...
Ah, so maybe it's bad to have a system where if a person doesn't have a job they die?
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see: http://sebsauvage.net/wiki/doku.php?id=php:zerobin

the "pasting" and "opening" sections cover this
Thanks for that. Honestly, I sometimes wonder how such articles make it to the top of HN. Is it because people believe the ideas are "worth spreading", or simply to show how badly written pieces they are? This baffles me.

And journalists who have never dealt with business whatsoever should seriously think twice before writing about new great theories of theirs. I don't think everyone necessarily needs to be an expert at something to have an opinion, but this kind of argument has been so over-used in the past that even a 5 minutes research should convince them it's nothing worth writing about.
The problem is always that we have to TRUST the server's claims about all this. I think the web should be enhanced with httpc

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2024164
The server doesn't store the decryption keys. However, the server does serve the crypto code which makes any perceived security boundary between the server and client bogus.

Cool trick though.
Ah, an obscure point of absurdity which utterly kills my pending interest in the language. If this sort of thing exists under the hood, revealed only by a detailed analysis of the specification, what other nonsense is there? Going so far as analyzing a string to determine whether it consists entirely of numbers for the non-sequitur process of then and only then converting it to what it isn't for logical evaluation is working pretty hard to do something counter-intuitive; might be tolerable if it actually preserved all digits, but not only does it work hard to convert a string to an integer, it then converts large integers in to floating-point values - not just one, but two layers of explicitly undesired and unnecessary and unreasonable typecasting.

I'm currently working with barcodes: numerical strings from 6 to 55 digits. In no way can I risk having one barcode be evaluated as equal to a literally different barcode just because the symbols in that string just happen to exhibit a passing resemblance to data of a different type.

Again, it's not just that it has loose typing. It's that it's taking what is OBVIOUSLY a string, converting it to an integer, THEN converting it to yet another data type which imposes data loss.

Intolerable for real-world use. A toy language. Alas, PHP, we hardly knew you...

ETA: Oh, I'd love to know the justification for the downvoting.
It may be a matter of taste, but I always considered this particular feature of == beneficial. In the normal case, it is what you need (in the context that most PHP applications deal with, namely communication over HTTP and with MySQL).

What is shown here is just a rare edge case that you should not normally encounter.

But I think that == has some other behaviors which are really detrimental. Like 0 == 'hallo world'. Sadly those can't be fixed due to backwards compatibility.
Exactly. I remember reading dating scene analyses that report the ratio of 2:1 for men and women around SF whereas in NYC it is just the reverse. This neatly explains the x2 factor.
You still have to show that the same amount of opportunities for people are created as are lost by removing low-value jobs. I cannot see the brunt of the people that find themselves out off a job now transitioning into the high-tech sector.

I agree with you on the basic principles. Most of those job losses do not hurt the greater picture, aside from the harm inflicted on the individual. But I think there should be planning for a world where most individuals don't have means or opportunity to make an income. I see nothing of that yet and if you still can publish an article in a McKinsey journal on something that is so blatantly obvious, I doubt the world is prepared.
As a woman in a technical field who is fascinated by 'deep' technology, and mentors other girls to foster their own interests towards a technical career, your comment serves to isolate and offend. Please keep divisive gender-based comments out of this forum unless you have some very hard data to back this up.
Ms. Wilson's pedigree includes Phillips Exeter, Harvard (twice!), Merrill Lynch, and Louis Vuitton. That list says a lot about the NYC ecosystem. How many people with her background are going to make their way to SV to try a pure-tech play?

[1] http://www.linkedin.com/pub/alexandra-wilkis-wilson/0/17b/84...
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Apple wants to make it easy for non-programmers to build iOS apps
Are you kidding me? Why would I give you access to all of that information only to request an invitation.

Also, I can't find whether this is US-specific only.
They can interpret the old .doc ones too, often better.
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Is Facebook Making Us Lonely?
What kind of hardware are you running that on? We are setting up a larger cluster, and are interested in the config of others. Thnx!
Just a landing page - it's an on-campus investment club
My take away from this conversation is that everyone could benefit from A simple shared set of TOS and privacy policies, something like open ID for login or creative commons for copyright sharing. It could be branded so people can read it once and know how it works. Having a small set of versions would make case law for one site easily.
applicable to other sites, and you could monetize with a small regular fee to use the branding/trademark , and add a certain number of hours per year for legal advice/representation in cases/suits directly related to the TOS and privacy policy as a premium option. Write once, reuse anywhere.
"The column on the right provides a short explanation of the terms of use and is not legally binding."

That's quite clear to me. If I were to try my luck in the courts, I'd be pleasantly surprised if the Judge took the "basically" column as the legal interpretation. Ignorance, as far as I'm aware, is not an acceptable legal defence (as cited by many a judge to people who neglect to pay their taxes).

The fact remains however, few people read TOS pages or privacy polices. Any attempt to change that should be applauded in my view.
It's all pretty theoretical at the moment, as is all of quantum computing. No quantum computer with more than a few qubits has been made, and none that are actually faster at any given task than a standard cpu.

It seems that practically this could offer somewhat faster transfers, less packet loss and thus less transfer-time variance, and less bandwidth consumption. This would all be a long way out though, and would require quantum computers in all the routers.

This news is really only interesting insofar as it's one more step toward quantum computing and mastery of the qubit.
I didn't know there was a rate limit. Does this affect GitHub Pages, too?
>is far more upsetting than anything redguava said.

Why?

I think criticism is good. I also think being a troll that contributes nothing and blindly criticizes people who do contribute is bad.
Finish the product before you promote.

I tried to demo it and all I got was "thanks for signing up".
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Just because past industrial developments (Gutenberg, in your example) were ultimately net job creators doesn't mean it will work that way in the future. It might, but it doesn't have to. You haven't justified your assertion, even though you might be right.

"The biggest misunderstanding of this article is that the goal of business is not to "create jobs", it is to create wealth." The article doesn't say that. Business is certainly about creating wealth, but states and societies have legitimate public policy interests in ensuring that there are enough jobs (for some values of 'enough') to ensure that created wealth moves around, to give people something constructive to do, and ultimately to promote social stability.
It's not really true that (due to the data being encrypted client side) your data is safe even if someone were to gain control of the server. It's something often claimed by these "Host Proof" style services.

As long as you are downloading the client side code from the server, someone just needs to make a small change to the javascript and they get access to your data.

Only if you can trust the code, and then make certain that the code does not change, is your data truly safe from the host.

Cortesi (http://corte.si) has done some interesting writing on the subject. http://corte.si/posts/security/hostproof.html

He implemented a similar service (http://cryp.sr + http://corte.si/posts/security/crypsr.html
), and also worked on creating a browser addon that would verify a webpage against a known hash (https://github.com/cortesi/apphash).

Here are a couple of HN submissions on cryp.sr which have some discussions on the "Host Proof" concept:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1438552

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1226277
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Agreed. Plus the terms do state that all copyright remains with the user. Someone seems to have amended the basically text to reflect this:

Your photos will preserve whatever copyright they had before
uploading to this site. We will protect the copyright and
will not sell your photos without your permission.
This is how you do a privacy policy
Ask HN: Dealing with intimidating team members
Have you ever had to deal with a team member who is not necessarily the smartest, but definitely owns the loudest voice and biggest mouth. The nut would blabber about his accomplishments with minimum tolerance for what others have to offer. Soon hardly anybody is speaking in the meeting ...

This is an adhoc team without predefined hierarchy and would be a short lived project. For a longer run, I'd just wait for the person to burnout ... but for now that's not an option.
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This would seem to fit in well with all the Backbone.js tutorials showing up. Will have a play, it looks interesting for quick client apps or demos.
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Here is an idea. Simplify the actual terms of service. The TOS can be what was written under the "Basically" parts.

There is no rule that a TOS has to be convoluted.
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Although PhoneGap does not offer any UI elements, there are plenty of mobile optimized UI libraries such as JQuery Mobile and others that replicate a more "native feel". Using a mobile optimized UI library will also dramatically improve the interactive element's and transition's performance. Performance is still a big consideration though as it has more of a good enough versus "native" feel.

Regarding the limitation of "native" hooks, PhoneGap has a very solid plugin system which allows your JavaScript code to call native code. There really is no limitation to this.

As far as fixing bugs, since you are using web technologies to build your app you can usually debug in the the browser. If you have something that relies on a specific device implementation, then there is WEINRE. Granted its not as powerful as debugging in XCode or Visual Studio but it definitely gets the job done without to many headaches.
The costs of living have been going down for the past 50 years at an incredible pace. And please refrain from using words such as "starving" - have you ever known anyone around you starving to death ? On the contrary, there seems to be more and more people who have plenty (and maybe too much) to eat. While productivity gains have been skyrocketing in the meantime. I didn't see people losing jobs by the truckload. And now even a person at the brink of the level of poverty in America has access to clean water, toilet, TV, mobile phone and for most of them, internet as well. We are not living in the 18th century anymore.

Nobody knows what the future is made of, but obviously the world is moving toward a higher need for skilled labor. And the fact that more and more people are going to be connected to the very same network, everywhere with mobile devices, will create new potentials for exchanges, commerce and so on. I am not too worried.
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Unfortunately, no. You'll need to go a lot deeper to access live camera info, overlay some sort of HUD, and run background processes to process and load necessary data.
How an angry maths blog sparked a scientific publishing revolution
Having added my own "site search" for an existing project using django-haystack + Xapian, I was surprised how easy the whole implementation was (spent about a day on it, plus a bit of tweaking). Of course that was a comparatively tiny index.
I think the issue is that this is a completely unknown company/product. Why should users give out any personal information to request for an invite for something with next to no information.
Appears? It DOES fail at string comparison. They're strings. You can't make it any plainer that they're strings. Sometimes, like with barcode processing, strings contain only numeric characters - they're still strings regardless. If I can't ask if one string literal is equal to another string literal without it making a concerted effort to not just convert both strings to integers (which, BTW, would be fine so long as it preserved all digits) but to then convert it from a non-lossy to a lossy data type - that's TWO unwarranted type conversions - then the axioms of the language are untenable, rendering it useless in the real world and making it little more than a toy.

If you're going to run with PHP's axioms, then the specifications should (1) demand an unlimited-length integer type, and (2) NEVER convert a non-lossy to lossy data type without very good overt reason.

Fail.
I think that Twitter is the best place to post updates about a startup. I've tried Killerstartups.com but the traffic from there isn't that good anymore (I think). Other sites I've found are:
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http://www.appvita.com/
http://betali.st/
http://startuplocation.com
We use the information requested to generate your profile on the site, but I see your point at this stage so will remove some of the extra options.
They can have one advantage over AWS: customer service. That's what made IndexTank, we would have never made it as user-friendly without our close relationship with our users.
It's the same with JavaScript regardless of whether you use == or ===

9223372036854775807 == 9223372036854775808

true

9223372036854775807 === 9223372036854775808

true
Ask HN: Where are the premium e-mail services?
Gmail has clearly jumped the shark. Google's front-end designers and back-end engineers are duking out who can do a worse job: horrible UI/UX vs. abysmal performance.

Where are all the premium e-mail services?
Are programmers that much more respected outside of the game industry?
I think you may be missing the point, or maybe it's I who am missing the point. Your three very thorough examples are a good way of showing how (most?) languages handle floating-point arithmetic vs. arbitrary arithmetic.

But it seems to me - and let me stress that I am not a PHP developer and won't be bothered to install PHP on my machine at this time - that PHP is failing to exhibit exactly the behavior your code examples are giving.

Put it another way - type coercion 'run amok' being another thing entirely, you are correct that this bug stems from the fact that PHP is converting these integers to floating-point, and the standard floating point implementations will all behave in this exact way (thus, not a PHP bug.)

However, the issue here is that (again, "most?") languages also provide an easy way to get to arbitrary-precision arithmetic - and indeed, in the three examples you posted, you simply encode in the most natural way (by simply writing them) the two integers and they automatically compare correctly.

My understanding is that this is not the case in PHP, and that is a shame.
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Oh god, are you jealous of the 9 year old? It sure is important to you that he not get anything.
The difference being that the php code sample is trying to compare two strings.
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Two goliaths splitting the market is not credible competition; it's a duopoly.

A third serious contender would increase the level of competition considerably.