skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Some of the comments here are very strange. Chomsky worked in MIT's electronics lab, because MIT didn't have a linguistics department before he came along, and the government was throwing all sorts of money around to build the high tech industry. I imagine it was rather chaotic and exciting.

So Chomsky probably knows what he's talking about. This is about his work life, not his participation in political life.
I liked Ilya's and Rachel's workspaces the best.
> Arch Linux setup does not actually have ed.

They did specify Unix.
With their cash flow they could own a company like DHL outright. A 747 is small potatoes.
While I think there are clearly cases to be made linking cyber attacks to physical violence and harm, I'm not sure this is one of them. This was a chemist, not a computer scientist, and it's plausible that Stuxnet slowed more violent/coercive efforts against Iranian scientists.
Yes, at the risk of sounding arrogant, what is this doing on the front page of HN? This isn't a security flaw and it isn't new, it's a well-understood Unix design decision.

If the aim was to educate people about Unix design principles, then it would have been useful to include references to the relevant specifications:

http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/un...

or at least have some meaningful discussion about the rationale for this design and its consequences. But this is just a statement of well-known fact with no context or added value, placed behind a link-bait title.
see "Dark Wizards" from the Pragmatic Programmer. (Not that I agree with him, but it's not an uncommon criticism.)
With Firefox .ac doesn't work but ac. does. So when you access .books you might need to write books.
That article was long and hard.
Sadly, I think if the US were to decriminalize all drugs, the most drastic changes would be seen in Mexico and central american countries. So, what incentive does the US have to help out poorer nations which supply us with drugs? These countries suffer the majority of the negative externalities associated with the drug trade, and supply for drugs thoroughly meets demand in the US, with minor unpleasantness north of the border.
Just... wow! I had no idea origami had progressed that far. The animals are so life-like, it's a bit creepy. All the practical applications of the folding principals are very interesting.
Both iPhones and Androids can both be set into TTY mode. This allows you to use them with traditional TTY machines you still have to spend a hundred bucks on, and is generally a stationary unit in the home (though not always.). This doesn't let you use them as I'd described. This mode change would be used in conjunction with the suggested software.

My honest assumption is that there's a reason no one has made the app that replaces hundred dollar equipment... But I haven't found the reason yet.
This is of course intentional. As far as I can tell, though, you can't delete a non-empty subdirectory owned by root containing files that are also owned by root, even if you own the directory containing that subdirectory. In order to delete the subdirectory you need to delete the files in it, and you can't do that unless you have permission to modify that subdirectory.
Perhaps 'perceived' public safety?
This is the best article on energy I have read in quite a while.
Interview with Scott Harrison from charity: water
Delete files in directory owned by root, without being root http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_bit
Depends what country they are in and if that country actually enforces their own law. Thailand or one of its neighbors is probably a good place to live until any legal uncertainties are sorted out.
It's worth noting that not every bug is a security-critical bug. Similarly, not every crash is a security-critical crash.

Sometimes you can exploit a bug to give you something, sometimes it's just a plain old bug.

People only pay for the security-critical ones.
That would defeat the point of the joke
Linux is not interesting for the buyers or not that easy to hack?
The New Politics of Energy [in US]
(Sorry for the delay - I never think to check comments for replies.) In this case, the apartments do seem to be occupied. But Australia has had a housing bubble for some time IMHO. Government policies like negative gearing (tax write-offs for investors where rent doesn't cover the mortgage - who thinks of these things?!), 1st time buyers grants, stamp duty concessions, etc have kept prices from falling.

Sydney in particular has a very tight housing market due to lots of people moving in but not nearly enough apartments and houses being built. This has kept prices up, but there will have to be a drop at some point. The only question is when, not if, and how much.
So is it a safe assumption that all porn sites are riddled with these types of exploits? Excluding generating revenue from these types of exploits, I've never understood how those sites could be sustained given the bandwidth charges those sites must incur.
>>Real coding - it's mostly planning and then writing code.

>> OTOH - when it comes to debugging and troubleshooting [...] but that's a different task.

I code and debug at the same time. Real coding for me is making sure it does what it's supposed to at the start so I'm always in a code/debug configuration and frame of mind.

>> And I will admit - lots of monitors can be a distraction, which is the killer of many a good programmer.

They are also the facilitator of many a good programmer.
Top Differences between Windows 7 and Windows 8
Rental markets are still strong for landlords. Too many people wanting a place to live, and not enough stock to fulfil the demands. The local governments are speeding up the permit process, but it's going to take a long time to catch up. Plus public transit isn't the greatest, especially in the high growth areas (Inner West and further out). The politicians are not looking long-term and thus screwing the people closest to Sydney out of an easier commute.

Luckily I don't work in the Sydney CBD, so my commute is pretty easy. :)
> I took my 2006 Macbook in to an Apple retail store to get a new battery, and they don't stock them any more.

You'd have the same problem in 2018 even if you had a replaceable battery.
I agree. This should not be surprising. The ability to link a file to a directory is different from the set of permissions necessary to change the data in the file.

Here's a practical example: I can create ~/public with permissions 777 (fully permissible) and allow my friends to read and write freely in it.

They can create files with permissions 600 (only they can read/write)

I can't open up these files and read the contents, but I can remove the entire thing from my home directory.
Really. Bad. Title.
The newest RAM that you can get as a TSSOP (as opposed to BGA) is DDR1. DDR2 and DDR3 are only available in BGA packages.
Tk is great. What I don't get is why people are still making applications that don't use ttk and it's modern theme. It's Motif look on linux is the single biggest complaint I hear about it today and that problem was solved what, a decade ago?

As an aside, LTK, which is basically just lisp bindings for talking over a socket to wish is the only lisp gui that I've had work on all platforms and all lisp implementations.
Do you really need the cloud?
It's especially interesting given that Lang has exhibited his crease patterns - though not as standalone images, judging from what he shows; he's very aware that it's a precursor to a model.

Morris is copying his crease patterns and treating them as an end in themselves; the way she turns them into abstract color fields is very different from what Lang has done with them. Although on the other hand I will quite happily bag on people like Shepard Fairey (the Obey Giant dude) for tracing images without attribution.

I dunno, I've got some of Lang's books in my library, he is amazing and I totally respect him as an artist, but I think that Morris is doing something interesting here too. Citing her sources would help a lot though.
The Growing Power of the Meme
If you want to do this as a repo it should be setup nicely with some examples and a index#home page that lets you connect to them. Test suites are nice too. Other value add could be testing the deploy readiness of the asset pipeline on heroku or other such things. Lastly, your boilerplate files have horrendous spacing, you may want to introduce them or fix cross platform compatibility. If it's designed to be an example it should be easily readable.
Also let's not forget about hard links, so that even if you 'rm' the file it will still reside ...
Online advertising: Brave new world or more of the same?
Here are my tabs:

Window 1:

1. Episode guide for Babylon 5, which I'm currently watching my way through on days that I'm not watching Euro 2012 matches.

2. Strategy guide for a game I play.

3. Scott Chacon's "Pro Git" book, which I've been meaning to read.

4. A reddit/r/metal thread recommending doom metal bands, since I've liked a few doom metal songs on that subreddit and are meaning to get into the genre more.

5, 6. More reddit/r/metal threads for similar reference.

7. A blog post on Pry, the Ruby REPL/debugger

8. A web caching tutorial, which I found on Hacker News

9. A blog post about "Real World Clojure", which I found on Hacker News

10. A listing of 2 minute tutorials about R, which I found on Hacker News

11. A European seedbox provider's front page

12. This, which I've been meaning to share with my girlfriend, and which I found on Hacker News: http://amasci.com/amateur/whygnd.html

13. A wiki page about a comedian, as a reminder to check out his work later, since he's purportedly similar to two other comedians I like

14, 15. Youtube links to metal songs from /r/metal

16. Hacker News itself

17. A reddit/r/soccer thread with a video I've been meaning to watch

18. My monthly budget in a Google Docs spreadsheet

19. An interesting looking article about Copland, Apple's project to replace the Mac OS before they bought NeXT.

20. An old Ars Technica post about Mac OS X memory management that mentions Copland; a false positive in a recent Google search about the topic.

21. Bus directions from home to work on Google Maps

22. The purported homepage of "Balance of Power: 21st Century", which is down.

23. The Wikipedia article about the original Balance of Power game.

24. Similar to 22--this is actually the homepage, 22 is the top-level domain.

25, 26: This article and thread from HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4114295

27, 28: Other HN threads

29: My threads

30: Reddit

31, 32: Various Reddit threads

33: An installment of Dinosaur Comics

34, 35: An HN thread--the same one, since I open "reply" links in a new tab.

36: This HN thread.

37: The tab I am typing this comment in.

38: This HN thread again.

39: My HN threads again.

Window 2:
1. The homepage for orgmode, which I've been meaning to look into.

2. A Trello board for a personal project.

3, 4: A page about "GTD for hackers", which I found on HN awhile back

5, 6: Other random self-improvement links

Window 3:
5 tabs of Coursera and other online course pages

Window 4:
16 tabs of technical subjects I've been meaning to look into

Probably less a sign of depression and more a sign of a surfeit of RAM and whatever mentality lies behind a cluttered desk....
BBC Worldwide Labs: A Mentoring Scheme for UK Startups
Yay, you're American. Most of the world isn't.
I get 30% CPU usage while it's still downloading/buffering the file data, but once it's only decoding it settles down to 3-4%
This is almost addictive to watch. Very impressive!
Or just have the battery replaced like you can with all the other Apple products without a user replaceable battery. The Retina replacement is a little more expensive than the previous model, but it's also a larger battery.
Watir - web application testing in Ruby
Confusing.

"Pandering"? What possible definition of "pandering" are you using? This is an article about the origins of a technical communications medium, origins which apparently have some relation to semantics, commented on by the most eminent linguist I know of.

And since you're being all meta here and everything, and since you took the time to influence what's on the front page in this case, it's curious you apparently had no problem with yesterday's front page post which contained pertinent hacker news like...wait for it....the letter from divorced Ronald Reagan advising his son on marriage - a post you commented in and happened to take the time to include an Amazon affiliate link in.
Sure, just look at the selectively published research that drug companies use to market antidepressants.
Try again and increase GOMAXPROC to 10-20. See for example here: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/golang-nuts/fjBft6qeMo0/kYSi...
I love the TCL foreach loops. TCL is the only language that lets you iterate through multiple data structures with the same loop. It is actually really useful. Just try this statement with any other language:

foreach animal { "dog" "cat" "bird" } color { "brown" "black" "red" } {
puts "See the $color $animal?"
}
Evidence-based analysis of the effect of domain migration on rankings
The four quadrant thing, for me, is one of those things that's a great idea in concept, but just doesn't work in reality. I find it better just to make a 'wish list' todo list, and I just throw everything that's 'not important not urgent' in there, then I can pick and choose as I like.

The nagging part - I haven't found any way around that other than nagging myself. This does mean that I often get lazy and unproductive. I'm working on a todo web site that will nag you - with emails, text messages and even phone calls.
Ugh, no. I suppose you've extrapolated quite a bit from the title. Carr thinks the benefits of the internet are massive, undeniable, and (probably) inevitable.

He's simply pointing out evidence that our tools change the way we think. He makes the same point about clocks, maps, books, etc.

The book has zilch to do with societal decline in the sense you mean it.
The numbers are confusing and doesn't seem to add up at all.
The section "stat definitions" describes data not available in the table below.
I just read a couple of pages, and this is a great read.

"If you are mainly looking for flirting opportunities, . . . . seek out clubs full of happy, sociable under-achievers."

It's pure comedy gold, Jerry!

Having said that: I hate to stereotype, but I find us geeks (men) to be pretty bad at flirting. I don't know if a 26-page tome will solve that problem or not....
Nation States that employ offensive cyber operations will NOT stop at only targeting computer infrastructure. Many technologists/hackers naturaly like to separate the world into two spheres (the so called "real world" and the "online" world), somehow thinking that they are above the physical fray. The truth is that hackers and security professionals on all sides will increasingly expose themselves to physical attacks like this. Any militarily sound employment of cyber warfare will include a physical attack component, whether covert or overt, depending on the current stage of the conflict.
Hopefully the result of this revealed information will encourage companies to raise the prices they offer for reporting/fixing security critical updates. It's a shame that the legitimate route pays 1/10th to 1/25th of the alternative. Particularly since the illegitimate route is basically selling coding services to a government agency in a lot of cases (albeit closer to cracker than hacker), which some people do anyways as a part of their normal coding jobs.
How  to Improve Prometheus (Spoilers)
I agree, this is really a test of various websocket implementations. (which is still cool)
This is a great idea. Directly and publicly monetize security bugs. This is technical debt in terms of real, hard, cold cash.

As a community it makes sense to embrace this. As vendors (and especially people who develop apps for walled gardens) start seeing real-world feedback on platform security, we can all make more informed choices. It also incentivizes the hell out of companies to make their stuff more secure. Terrific concept. This shouldn't be some kind of dark grey-market site. It should be on a web location as visible as E-bay. (owned by somebody with no skin in the game)

For those of you arguing that such information can and does kill people, I feel your pain. But you can't hide knowledge. There will be a market whether or not there's a Forbes article about it. The only difference is whether you know about these vulnerabilities or you don't. A big, public market lets everybody see how crappy the things we use are. A secret, government-controlled market keeps all of that critical information away from the very people who need it. If the Syrian government is using security exploits to kill dissidents, all the more reason to let the sun shine in.
Apple will replace it for $199. It's like buying a used car that has a battery a couple years old--not a reason to pass upon the car, it will just take a few bucks. Factor that into the price.
I'm not seeing anything happen... just a map, and a bunch of xhr-polling requests (I'm assuming from socket.io)... - using firefox 13 on Win7
Ask HN: How do you learn to develop exploits?
Too few people in the world understand technology. Of those, the vast majority don't do anything creative with it. I would put myself in this category. A few people are extraordinarily creative and come up with the exploits we read about in the news.

Let's say you're a competent programmer with minimal prior exposure to security. What should you read/do to learn how to see and engineer these kinds of exploits? I don't want to be Picasso, I just want to learn how to paint so I understand how he does it.

For the record, I'd say a working hands-on knowledge of this should inform the design of any system.

Is it a person-to-person oral tradition? Is it on some private message boards somewhere? Text files? There used to be 2600 Magazine, does anyone still read that?

Maybe it's all of the above. Where is the best place for somebody smart to start reading/inspecting/programming and quickly learn what matters?
Show HN: CLI for Domainr
for animal, color in zip(['dog', 'cat', 'bird'], ['brown', 'black', 'red']):
print 'See the %s %s?' % (color, animal)
that's exactly what I was going to say! I love it. It's funny, I live in Nova Scotia, Canada and there's a tweet every 5 minutes, not even.
While porn sites might be riddled with malware it is unlikely that they'll be zero days. More likely you'll see exploits for bugs that are publicly known but not yet patched everywhere.

The value of a zero days is largely rooted in the fact that it hasn't been disclosed publicly and any widespread use of a zero day threatens that value. Zero days will be used when the risk of discovery is very low or the payoff is very high and attacking random people who visit dodgy websites is unlikely to meet those conditions.
see @ajays comment above
>It will be harder to maintain, but cheaper and, as practice shows, more reliable.

Practice shows that Amazon's uptime isn't perfect. Where's the evidence that a dedicated server is?

(There may well be evidence to support that. But I get awfully weary of the "it's not cloud so it must be more reliable" trap.)
> Quite honestly I grow tired of seeing any famous person or brand name on HN. It's almost always an indication of time-wasting nonsense ahead.

Quite honestly your standards seem wildly inconsistent:
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4113928

Not that the standards of the rest of us are always consistent, but it's interesting to reflect on why linguist Chomsky on a tech/semantic subject might trigger one emotional reaction while Reagan advising on love triggers another....all here on a tech blog, eh?
The biggest issue I have with THN is the title. "The Hacker News." Sounds all sorts of derivative.
You're right, but saying "someone else would do it if I didn't" is a pretty weak rationalization. They're making themselves rich at the expense of everyone else. They're a leech on society.
maybe Apple has some amazing new battery tech (unlikely), but my experience has been that laptop batteries start seriously degrading after a year.

I've had the same experience with other laptops in the past (my Asus netbook lost its ability to hold its charge altogether after 10 months), but my MBP's battery life has not degraded in any noticeable fashion after 18 months of heavy use.
I think that 8GB might start to get a little tight.

I have a 2 year old 4GB MacBook Pro, and had to upgrade the RAM as I found it swapping too much.
She should have mentioned his name as source material. I don't think royalties or anything were in order, but his name should've been there as a matter of courtesy.
Just as important as the 0days themselves is keeping public who bought them. 0days, in many cases, are weapons. By keeping this market and it's transactions in the open perhaps we can keep the purchasing parties a little less evil, or at least drive up their costs.

This market, to me, looks very similar to the weapons industry. The more open it is the better for everybody. The other commenters are correct, this market isn't going anywhere. We may as well shed light on it.
I was surprised not to find a discussion of correlation vs causation here. If you accept the correlation, I think there are different plausible ways to interpret it.

It could be that the way we interact with the computer is a symptom of our depression, or it could well be that the way we use computers is causing depression (or both).

I have heard of other work associating things that split our attention, e.g. listening to podcasts while working, reading with the the television on, etc, with mood disorders. From the other side, the practice of mindfulness, which seems antithetical to these activities in that it advocates simply paying attention to one thing at a time, appears to be a path to happiness for many.
Info pages are utterly useless--I don't think I've ever had anything useful from there. If I've screwed my system up so badly I need to use ed, even "man" might not necessarily work (these days GNU commands are just so damn clever). Best thing is usually to grab another computer or your smartphone and start Googling.
1. Grab as many viewers as you can

2. Push as many links for subscription to "legit" porn site (those 5-7 minutes video with a "view more / view the full version here")

3. Take a % on the people that register through that

That and ads are the main income source. The percentage of people who end up subscribing is very small, but then again a dozen bucks buys you a lot of bandwith these days.
Any reason you haven't tested the 'ws' node version I submitted? I think it should work fine...
My introduction to TCL was in the mid-90's via Expect:

http://www.nist.gov/el/msid/expect.cfm
Only the living rise again for a new day. Funny business apparitions need not apply. -unknown
> Our biggest competitor is paper.

And not the very popular DocuSign which has been used for the majority of the apartment leases I've signed in the past few years and buys gigantic billboards advertising itself in metropolitan areas?
Depends on what you are trying to exploit I imagine, there are a huge number of different techniques out there.

Have a look at http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1

and if you can get some sample exploit code and study it.

Then perhaps study some of your own programs with a more devious mindset and figure out what you have forgotten to take into account.
This debate reminds me of the battle over an 8-bit remix of the cover of Miles Davis' "Kind of Blue" [1]. The discussion here at that time [2] was strongly in favor of the person doing the repurposing, with folks bemoaning the fact that the original photographer would (ab)use the legal system for such a trivial matter.

Why is everyone now on the side of the original content creator, despite the fact that (unlike "Kind of Blue") Lang's crease patterns aren't culturally revered, nor were they ever reserved for commercial use?

[1] http://waxy.org/2011/06/kind_of_screwed/

[2] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2687950