skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If only there was a soft and comfortable harness that I could drape over my knees upon which to prop my iPad, I'd be very happy with the 9.5 in tablet. I've got a design in my head but no spare cycles at the moment...I'll keep looking on Etsy since I'm sure I'm not the first person with this idea.
Surely something similar can be done with radial gradients?
You're right, it was the Secret Service rather than the CIA.
Good luck to him. The specs for his "legs" - http://www.ossur.com/?PageID=13462
I heard stories from an American student who went to my Canadian university...

Apparently he was back home partying it up with some of his home town friends... when the Secret Service kicked down the door in the middle of a party, immediately subdued his friend (the counterfeiter), and left abruptly.

Apparently he never saw that kid again.
Nerd brain recoiling in attempt to square first sentence of this comment with last one.
Rubber shoes in motion!

(sorry)
This has been one of my most favored tools in my belt. It is extremely handy for more than just security work. The proxy and intercept, and repeater tools are excellent. The only complaint I have is that the proxy is sluggish compared to something like Fiddler2. Never have figured out why though.
Yes - Though, I thought one could use Calibre for this with a regex. But, at least for me, it was very error prone.
Whatever anyone thinks, I feel bad for this guy. Advantage or not, he's a hell of an athlete, yet he can never accomplish anything without people questioning it.
India needs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perestroika

Former USSR republics are prospering well.
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cool, I'll touch base later. Have you guys put any thought to legal/privacy requirements to easy worries for companies dealing with proprietary software? NDA's and that kind of stuff?
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The former. With some very minor exceptions, we don't use automated scanners at all in our practice. We use Burp to set up testing experiments, and we use ruby for automation.
We've found that "scanners" make good testers much less sharp; if the tool spits out the names of specific vulnerabilities, it's suspect.

But even practices that do use automated scanners won't be relying on Skipfish or sqlmap.

This obviously doesn't hold for network pentesters. For tests in which application flaws aren't the whole story, and you're just looking for the fastest way in you can find, sure; sqlmap is valuable there, much more so than Skipfish. We don't do those kinds of tests often.
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I think the point is automated tools are a nice way of directing your pen test, sort of like the way you might use binoculars to scan your surroundings while hiking to spot interesting terrain you might wish to explore.
I have listed things that I have tried out for months. I happen to really hate these particular three. Now I study other things that I find more worthy of human lifetime, some of them just as useful to a programmer.

Why can you not accept that someone could possibly hate working with a shell or git's CLI even after trying them out? I don't get it.
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I wrote a similar piece for Krebs the week prior; I think it's linked from this one.

I'm not a fan of Schneier's take on this. Don't start a career in security by thinking about certification.
May be to pose a challenge to Higgs.
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> I think the most obvious evidence that these prosthetics do not constitute an advantage is the times of other athletes using identical limbs. Pistorius is whole seconds faster than his nearest rivals. If the limbs constitute a meaningful advantage, then why is Pistorius so uniquely quick?

You're mixing apples and oranges here.

In the highest most competitive horse races, it's not uncommon to still see horses that win by large margins. Having a horse win without advantage against other horses is not a good reason to start having humans race against horses.
I've only seen/heard of setups where the performer is pushing video. Some throw the group of viewers into a shared chat channel, some don't. But, yeah, there it is.

It's not my cup of tea, but they seem pretty popular, profitable and disruptive.
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It would be harder maintaining a large collection of software outside of one of the major Linux distros. Debian/kFreeBSD might have a chance thanks to the GNU userland, but the archive is less well supported than with the Linux kernel.
Of course not. This is a pernicious myth about SQL security. Many inputs to query construction can't be parameterized.
Actually, no. Stored Procedures can contain dynamic SQL, which is the actual problem, so it is quite possible to have a stored procedure with SQL Injection built into it. This would yield high-performance SQL Injection and little else.

The better answer is a parameterized query, which actually controls the inputs properly to ensure that no dynamic SQL is possible.
I love your thinking, Ben. You are a problem solver. Well done!
Kaspersky would be another one. There's also Paragraph (creators of Newton's handrwriting recognition module), but they are from the earlier times.
Not so sure I agree with that in general. What about the LHC? That is just a tool, too. Is that too not worth mentioning?
This is the idea that scares me the most, because while it sounds great, it has an obvious flip side: wherever the scanner doesn't "focus" you is getting less attention.
SQL Map is a SQL Injection tool. Skipfish is a web vulnerability scanner. Skipfish, in other words, is more like Burpsuite or WebInspect or Nikto than like SQL Map.
Russia is so corrupt that running a business without dealing with criminals is not practically possible. Nobody is "clean" and if you are you will not be running a business anymore or even better end up dead or in prison. That is the cost of doing business there. My dad's university friend ran a small company in Moscow, was too honest for his own good, they threw him out of the balcony of his apartment. Competition in in mother russia is a bit more cutthroat then what people NA can imagine.
Once people get in there again, spamming will resume. Never mind that a lot of them are mostly in there for spamming the Google archive, not aiming at Usenet itself. Might even get them a better pagerank… I think you're actually seeing more spam in Google Groups archives than when you're getting it from real NNTP servers, as they should respond to canceling messages (and collaborate spam filtering should be pretty effective).

But few people are interested in making Usenet a better space to live in. Follow the money and look at how many sites are essentially proprietary discussion groups.
...seriously? On HN?

Nobody is printing money out of thin air. When they print more money, they value of the $20 that is in your pocket decreases slightly, but the value of your house increases substantially.

Everybody knows it's not wise to store 100% of your worth in cash.
As far as malware goes, this isn't really that bad. (EDIT: it doesn't e.g. steal your credit card info [unless you keep that info in your contacts list])

It's simply an app that uploads your address book to a remote server. Up until recently, it was considered industry standard to do that.

The only thing this app does different is that the server then sends SMS messages to the numbers it uploads from your address book.

All this really is showing is that Apple should've made iOS from the beginning ask the user for permission before allowing an app to access the address book. After iOS 6, this app won't do anything.
Interesting. Do you have sources for that research?
Example of reverse domain name hijacking (udrp decision analysis))
They have indeed discovered a Higgs Boson they're just not sure if its "the Standard Model" Higgs Boson yet.
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Yep right if these were the 90's,the heading would have been worth its pounds and it was made a cliche in the 90's itself.
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This story is important because in the Western society something that is not "mainstream" is not considered a success. You don't see Linux on a lot of consumer devices where people graphically interact with the OS and hence Linux as an OS is deemed "not mainstream" and hence deemed "not a success". These stories will be unnecessary only when society moves past this shallowness and I just don't see that happening any time soon.

BTW, my favorite "Linux is awesome" moment? Watching an inflight system in front of my seat in a Delta flight reboot..
Upvotes aggregated by ip?
Just had a friend in our office post a great little js lib but none of us seem to be able to upvote it. What gives?
You hang around with wrong Russians.
Police should be required to record all audio/video when making any kind of stop.

It's an official action. Instant dismissal if such recording is purposely incomplete, tampered with or "lost".

ps. that ACLU video is just not good on so many levels - they should replace it with something to reflect how serious this is
I've seen that behavior as well.
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FAQ:

"if your question generally covers …

a specific programming problem
a software algorithm
software tools commonly used by programmers
practical, answerable problems that are unique to the programming profession
… then you’re in the right place to ask your question!

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What kind of questions should I not ask here?

You should only ask practical, answerable questions based on actual problems that you face."

This is practical, answerable, an actual problem someone has faced (presumably for a programming interview), to do with a software algorithm, specific, and unique to the programming profession (otherwise why would you specify 2^63-1 as a limit?!).

How on earth is this "definitely without a doubt, not on topic to SO"? Why would "Progamming Language Pragmatics" be cited as a reference if this was not a programming problem?

The comments in the meta thread are also unhelpful - "True, I would close it as not a real question. Because it is the text literally copied from the interview question whitout any effort to change it into a question and without any effort to solve it".

I'm with btilly, these guys should put more time into answers and less into meta-answers, if I were treated like him I'd be looking for the door as well: why would he want to spend his time convincing these people a clearly useful question and answer should be on this site?
Well, first off, I do not include any samples from their MP3s, nor do I include reproductions of their copyrighted sheet music.

Second, I am careful to link out to the artist's content on iTunes and YouTube. So hopefully the music industry understands that I am driving users to their songs. If a user wants to listen to Justin Bieber's Baby, they won't be able to do so within my app. They'll need to go download it from iTunes, or be the 756 millionth viewer on YouTube.

But honestly, I'm not trying to infringe on anyone's content. I just want to make a fun app to drive up interest for various artists and songs (not that Bieber needs my help). But if they contact me and want a particular song removed, I will be happy to do so.
"Basis in reality" was poor wording. A better question would be "what is the evidence for the factual claims of your religion?". That's the base line.

> Religions are about authentic living, meaningfulness, mindfulness, and reminding yourself with ritual of that which is most important.

Sounds both compatible with a correct vision of the world, and a worthy goal. So far, I'm not scared away. I will be if you suddenly require me to believe things that I deem too improbable, though (canonical example: a supernatural God).

My point is, I do not reject the idea of a true religion. It may be dangerous, but it may be worthwhile. It just have to acknowledge powerful truth-seeking processes, like Science, and update accordingly. I do think however that mos current religions are hopelessly false.
This product is brilliant for creating Methods Of Procedure (MOP) documents, which are important but highly tedious step-by-step guides that need to be done right.

Also looking for premium PPT and PDF export options. Going to play with this more to see how easily my project teams can pick this up.

The editing workflow is a bit clunky, but given it's a first launch it's definitely workable. Small nitpick: wish that triple-click selects the entire caption in editing mode.
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While his current prosthetic might not give him a great competitive advantage, doesn't it seem like a slippery slope? 12 years from now, lets say there is a breakthrough in prosthetic technology, one that gets rid of all the disadvantages, and improves the advantages -- do we let those in, or do we say "No, you can only use prosthetics from x years ago?"
Adding on top of that was my own dynamic language background not mapping well to the JVM - one bad address in the middle of a loop doesn't just get skipped and logged, but the entire process now stops.

Makes me wonder what dynamic language you're used to. An uncaught exception in both python and ruby aborts the program, not just the tiny inner loop that happens to be running.
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Ask HN: When should usability issue be tapped?
Should usability issue be tapped before implementation (design) phase or after? Does it differ if the feature is experimental or for advanced user.
You cannot win with "IP" wars. The US started it, the Chinese will finish it.

The difference between the two is that China has not put all its economic eggs in the IP basket and their versions of cutting edge Western industries are only just beginning...

Also, what will be particularly interesting is how international organisations will be grossly abused in the coming decade, from the UN and ITU to WTO as well as how Western access to Chinese markets will adversely change.
Indeed, but TPB is vast, sometimes you don't find what you need on private trackers.
Can you provide the link to Krebs?
I may be wrong but they probably have a support contract with RHEL or similiar or they are using a sponsored distribution that caters to their specific needs such as Scientific Linux. I don't know if similiar projects/teams exist for BSD distros.
I personally have had really bad luck with private, members only tracker sites. If I don't get on the torrent within minutes of posting, I can't reach the desired 100% seeding goal. On the other hand, this is ridiculously easy to do with public tracker sites (such as TPB).
But sending the header first isn't cheating. What you need to do is wait for the first byte of actual page content to show up. That will show you how long initial request processing took.
I'll save everyone the trip to their favourite search engine. It's part of a larger quote:

"宰予晝寢。子曰：「朽木不可雕也, 糞土之牆不可朽也。於予與何誅 」子曰：「始吾於人也, 聽其言而信其行; 今吾於人也, 聽其言而觀其行。於予與改是。」"

"Tsai Yu slept during the daytime. The master said, "Rotten wood cannot be carved; dirty earth cannot be used for cement: why bother scolding him? At first I used to listen to what people said and expect them to act accordingly. Now I listen to what people say and watch what they do. I learned this from Yu."[0]

(I hope Chinese uses quote signs too.)

_____
[0] http://www.lrsolution.com/konkar/SF_LunYu.html
"Many inputs to query construction can't be parameterized."

Such as? If you only use PreparedStatment (Java), or the equivalent for your language, and have a rule against, and never broken, to concatenate SQL strings together, you are safe from SQL injection.
I also have the same issue with it crashing.
Safari on the iPhone (5.1.1)

- Starts to load Friends

- Screen goes to black as the app is terminated

Also, it does not load at all on Chrome for iPhone (the main site loads, but nothing happens after you click on the "Lets Go" button; besides opening a new tab).
HipChat could be added, which is one of the best group chat services.
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In most cases the "a[0]" approach works, however. The set of circumstances where you want "first" as a proper function is limited to those cases where you need to pass it into some higher order function (which is still infinite, granted, but it's not 'every time we'd want "car"').
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I think you should put things in perspective. Ireland is not the least corrupt country in the world, but definitely on the right end of the list. Only Scandinavia, Germany, Canada, Australia and New Zealand is less corrupt. The rest of western Europe as well as the US, Chile, Uruguay and surprisingly Botswana is at about the same level, while every other country is more corrupt.

No country is totally free of corruption. It would be no problem to find cases in Swedish media as well. That you find corruption cases in the media is a good sign, because it indicates society does not accept it.

Corruption is not in any way crippling Irish economy like it does many other places.

(Source: http://cpi.transparency.org/cpi2011/results/ )
How much did you guys raise initially?
How long did you take to figure out the original idea wouldn't work?
Is it correlated? At the end of the day 12 randomly selected people from the population decide whether the person is guilty or not guilty.

How that system can be corrupted, even by the skills of persuasion, is beyond me. Some facts are simply facts and no gift of communication can change that.

Lawyers are not magicians. Lawyers can't by simple force of intellect persuade the jury to acquit someone when the fact clearly show to any impartial reasonable observer, as normally is the case with a jury of 12 people, that the person has committed the crime.

You might have a stronger argument in regards to how decisions are made as to which case is prosecuted, how much resources are allocated to gathering the facts to prosecute a case related to drugs as compared to a case related to financial fraud, but in my opinion, once the person charged is in court, I think there is no corruption at all.
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Nice job, and in particular it looks great. Is the design a template or did you make it from scratch? If so where did your inspiration come from?
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SP:s was never mentioned in the post you are replying to, but ofcourse if you use dynamic SQL in them (execute immediate in Oracle) it is just as bad as doing string concatenation in other languages. Just dont do that.
If you have say two networks that are based on different choices of perspective in coding a MDL with wildly differing lengths and better performance of the larger one, I would be highly suspicious as to whether the the poor performer is properly built from a sensible simplifying metric.

In terms of a general intuition of how the choice of similarly expressive representations affect complexity, one can look to Kolmogorov Complexity. For any two languages used to compute the KC of some string, there is only an additive translative constant for each possible input. The asymptotics of how each language grows its representation with respect to input size by far will dominate such translative overheads. This is sufficient for philosophical purposes. Although in the practical case these choices matter and MDL was created specifically to treat these practicalities.
Didn't they ban the swim suits from the last olympics because of the advantages they conferred? I think they can evaluate the advances in technologies on a case by case basis and decide. His current setup offers no apparent one for his race, thus he should be allowed to compete.
There are very strong inbuilt aversions to losing your limb.
Couldn't agree with this more. AR is a great example of a cool tech demo with little real world usefulness.
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FAQ page: Good or bad? 
FAQ page: Good or bad?

I love FAQ pages. When I first land on an interesting/new website that offers services, the first thing I look for is the FAQ page. It saves me time and usually answers my basic questions. It also allows me to further grasp the basics of the website in a couple of minutes. Ultimately, it saves time and even allows for lead generation. FAQ pages should be used to complement your product/service.

Other opinions are that if you need a FAQ page, it at means that your product failed to have a friendly enough UI. One should invest time making the site clearer, rather than working on a FAQ page. It takes the same amount of time and the time would be better spent.
That's not entirely correct. The paper that US Currency is printed on is a linen-cotton blend, but it's still considered a "paper", even though it doesn't come from trees.

There was a fascinating article about this on Planet Money a few weeks back, including an interview with the head of Crane's, the company that provides the source paper to the US Mint.
I've seen guys like him when I run half-marathons. Damn, they're fast. It really challenges the notion of disabled; they're effectively actually superhuman. The less energy at cruising speed is obviously a bigger advantage over longer distances.