skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Can you iterate on this a bit more.
Based on this I am actually a bit unsure if blake is not miss-interpreting BY-NC-ND at all.

E.g.
http://mollykleinman.com/2008/10/20/cc-howto-no-derivatives/
interpretes the legal text like this:
"The key words here are “recast, transformed, or adapted.” A derivative work involves enough creativity and originality that it constitutes a new copyrightable work. Simply converting a work from one medium to another — from print to digital, or CD to MP3 — does not produce a derivative work."

Not that it matters - they asked people not to create epubs/pdfs so i removed mine just to respect the wish.

I just want to learn for future issues.
If you are worried about a simultaneous email and password leak of your LastPass account, they do have several two-factor authentication options that would prevent someone getting into your account.
The link doesn't work any longer.

I'm guessing linkedin fixed the problem?
Comments should make it fairly straightforward to accomplish:

function foo()
{

/* ...characters for image data... /

bar();

/ ...more image data... */

The asterisks are not showing up but you get the idea. It checks out with the comments part of the javascript spec as well:

http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-7.4

...as the text inside the comment can be any unicode code unit except for an asterisk (For source Character rules see http://ecma-international.org/ecma-262/5.1/#sec-6).
Your question sums up the entirety of what's wrong with hacker news. I'm the only one commenting here who has actual evidence of the situation, which I presented.

You reject it because I talked only about my experiences, and my experiences go against your prejudice.

Yet every other commeenter in this thread is making assertions, without providing any evidence what-so-ever. Often very broad assertions about how apple regularly censors.

Your are blinded by your bigotry to the fact that those assertions are completely unsupported.

And since Hacker News is overrrun with unthinking ideologically oriented people like you, no useful discussion can happen in these debates.

> That makes no sense as an argument.

You are so anti-intellectual you can't even recognize an argument.

It is sad to see so many people who cannot think.
Any good ideas?
Hi,

I am a 27 year old developer who left my well-paid Wall Street job about 2 years back.

At that time, Social + Location based + Mobile (Solomo) apps were the trend. I built one and it did not receive much traction and $0 revenue.

I have built a 4 member team of one co-founder and two freshers and all of us are very good developers.

2 years down the line I am still passionate about technology & entrepreneurship. I want to create a product that can really make this world better. Making money is also an important aspect to make sure that the product is sustainable.

Right now I am out of ideas and I fear I might have to shut down my startup and go back to the 9-5 job life that I really don't want to.

If you have some good, interesting ideas that you don't have enough time to work on, please suggest.

Thanks in advance. Appreciate your help.
There are some commercial solutions that compile bytecode to native code, but they are a bit on the expensive side.

Aonix and JET are two of them.

Sadly, GCJ is dead even though is still part of GCC.
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Or += which is needed for the bitshift solution.
Exactly. You should be able to do that. The libs that come from apt should be compatible with the applications that come from apt.

But you cannot grab some software sources from dev repos (e.g. git clone gitit) and then install the required libs from apt and expect it to work. It may work if all the dependency libraries are very mature and stable, but that's not usually the case.
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I say no, because you would need to employ someone with the experience and this employee might tell you about existing solutions for the problem you are trying to solve and you might find that the competition in the market is harsh. Though you can always learn and gather experience from the area your problem is at, but this takes more time and money than finding someone else to do the work for you and you might still run into the same problem of existing solutions.

But then again if you know little bit about the field and can do your market research before continuing further to gain experience or to employ someone go ahead and do the market research for your business idea then you know if your idea is worthy of going forward.
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The state of affairs with Ruby OS integration is pretty poor.

It's not a problem for me because Ruby is my bread and butter, so of course I have rvm (or rbenv) installed at all times. But as I user I think it's unacceptable to have to do a manual installation just to run extremely simple programs. It'd be nice if the community were more responsive to fixing the problems faced by the package manager maintainers.
Silly method right, but i think the question begs for an answer of this kind.
Hmm, I'm not sure if you're disagreeing with anything I said... when I wrote binary packages, I meant gitit's. If you just want to use it, you don't need need any dev libs.
How about Kary Mullis crediting the invention of the PCR machine to LSD?
Kickstarter is an excellent marketing platform to launch any new product/service and getting new leads.

Moreover, it eliminates the idea-validation risk of developing something that no one wants.

I feel that they are very smart to use this.
Install base doesn't matter nearly as much when "installing" is just visiting a web page.
And yet people blame Google for using their "search profits" to go into other businesses. But Microsoft has been doing this for a lot longer and a lot more aggressively than Google.
I think the pi will have some problems being successful with it's target market (kids who want to learn to code) if it's web browsing experience is dog slow.

Does anybody know if it is being actively used in education anywhere or are the users mostly geeks using it to run an apache server from their RC helicopters?
I put it down to training more than anything. I bet Tesco haven't offered any of their development staff a structured (possibly external) training course on web security.

While training your staff won't solve all your security problems, I still think it'll help mitigate a lot of them.
In other words, yet another story about Apple "censorship" that turns out not to be about Apple censorship.

People make a big deal of it when it first comes out and bash Apple when its on the front page of HN.

Now that it has turned out to be false, it is no longer on the front page of HN.

Next time someone says something bad about Apple, the denizens of HN will talk about how "apple's always censoring" and this will be one of the stories they're talking about.

Just as they said effectively the same thing in this comment.

HN has been overrun with ideology. It is a shame.
Also, game publisher Nexon silently installs a browser plugin (Nexon Game Controller) on many (all?) of its games, none of which AFAIK need a browser:

Vindictus/Mabinogi Heroes

Dragon Nest

Maplestory

Atlantica Online

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Do you have 20 grand lying around to buy a server farm of mac minis? ;)

In order to offer the course, they need to build the infrastructure ... and in order to build the infrastructure, one needs capital to even start on the venture. In the past, you would go to a venture capitalist to front the money. Kickstarter offers a way of doing that without the strings attached.

I find no qualms with this usage of kickstarter
Yeah, in terms of performance "improved" is the wrong term. We've tailored things more to our use cases, especially since we need feature weighting and multi classification, rather than simply binary classification.
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I'm guessing your 60% figure is (a) accurate, and (b) from memory. If so, this is trending in the wrong direction for Microsoft:

http://www.statisticbrain.com/netflix-statistics/

The figure quoted is 50%. Also bear in mind that it's not exclusive, and it's counting all supported game consoles (e.g. including the Nintendo Wii).

My guess is that TVs with built-in Netflix streaming support and AppleTV (now outselling XBox http://macdailynews.com/2012/07/25/some-hobby-apple-tv-outso...) are hurting this.

Given that XBox has been marginally successful as a business and was greatly dependent, for its success, on the dominance of the PC gaming platform, I don't think XBox is Microsoft's ace in the hole.
Good answer. The problem is the mismatch between the business that they think they're in and the business that they are becoming.

However I am not finding anything about "you may not store passwords in plain text or using reversible encryption" in that PCIDSS wikipedia link. If it is part of the standard (as it should be) then it deserves to be in the wikipedia article.
I don't agree. The OP makes it sound like it's a malicious backdoor installed by Ubisoft to get superuser access to a system. In fact, it's just a badly programmed way to launch games / any executable. To do anything else, you will have to find a way around the other security mechanisms, such as UAC.

I am in no way trying to say that this can not be dangerous, but it's different from what we would usually call rootkits.
Nobody comments here on the profile way to get to know people. "Are you vegetarian? You didn't write that in your profile..."

I guess we are already so used to this kind of virtual interaction.

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Other alternative is that we can start consulting.

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No, this is still working for me.
This pretty much confirms what I suspected earlier ( http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4274757 ), namely that licensing issues are the reason for Google not having committed to it, yet. And as they said they recommend it if and only if the "remaining licensing issues can be resolved."
The issue here is that Samsung's patents are deemed essential to cell phone networking standards, so the law mandates that they be licensed under standard terms to prevent extortion (FRAND). However, slide-to-unlock and design language aren't interop. standards nor essential features of a phone (or, at least, they have not been declared to be, though I suspect they don't meet the bar) so the patent holders are free to set licensing fees as they wish. I suspect that Samsung would not hesitate to raise their licensing fees if the law allowed them to.

More biased propaganda from Groklaw. Hello, Slashdotters--welcome to HN!
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A friend on mine (techie) just had the following experiance and subsequently sent me the following email:

"Just a word of warning about Tesco’s online shopping.

I’d forgotten my password, so I clicked the ‘Reset my password’ link.

Tesco send me an email, this email did not contain a link to reset my password.

It contained my password in CLEAR TEXT!

This would suggest to me that Tesco probably aren’t encrypting passwords at all.

If they ARE encrypting passwords, the passwords definitely aren’t hashed and salted...

After a quick delve around the site, I found their password policy:

The new password needs to be between 6 and 10 characters long

Oh good.....they don’t accept special characters in the password.

I’ve also noticed that I can log in successfully with caps lock on!

This is a bit worrying too. When you click on the Why it’s safe to shop at Tesco.com link the following occurs:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/856/tescoa.jpg/

Right Tesco, so you’re linking to unsecured page content. This is scary, because the cookie that validates your identity and session (that Tesco insist you must have to use the site) will then be passed in clear-text. This will allow anyone to observe the cookie as it passes across the internet, capture it and re-use it to impersonate you.

....

I’d suggest you change your password frequently, and don’t allow Tesco to store your credit card details."

Some parts I have omitted here but he has mentioned that he attempted 20 fake passwords and it did not lock his account out which prompted him to removed his account. He said would not be using Tesco.com until this is sorted. On my part, I am no security expert, but this sounds SCARY!

I have emailed the above to customer service, No reply! I am not a Tesco.com user!

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I don't know, but how do you compile any of these C programs?
The problem with GAE is that it's not quite there yet when it comes to web-app development in Java.

1) Does not have Maven support

3rd party exist, but not from Google

2) As you said it: persistence layer/ORM mismatch with BigTable

You could use Objectify but what are we talking about here: apps that use RDBMS or being dictate by Google what your app architecture should be?

3) Limitations imposed by GAE

There was a time where if you use Spring Framework, once in a while GAE will throw exception due to longer bootstrapping time. Does not support all Java classes and keeping GAE up to date to the latest spec.

What most Java developers want is to support Tomcat/TomEE/JavaEE5+6, deployment via Maven, with RDBMS and less restriction. Up until now, no one in the market (Heroku, CloudFoundry) do this (user-experience) well except Jelastic. Unfortunately Jelastic does not provide infrastructure; they provide the software and work with 3rd-party hosting provider for the infrastructure.
I guess we just have to hope that emergent "forces" create some sort of balance that works. I don't think your sentiments are unusual and inasmuch as their widespread, they may act as a balancing force.
Its been a couple of years but the process in the UK is very simple - check out http://www.ipo.gov.uk/types/tm/t-formsfees.htm for the various services plus they have some useful documents covering the basics.

The IPO also offer a service where they charge you something like half price and tell you if something is trademarkable. I believe I paid around £80, filled in a form, and they wrote to me to tell me that the text I wanted to trademark was too common a phrase to be trademarked, and gave me a number so I could have a chat with the person who dealt with the application for any further questions.
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It actually makes sense for Microsoft to do hardware now. Back in, say, 1995, PC technology was moving so quickly that keeping up with the Joneses was horribly unproductive and risky, so Microsoft "outsourced" PC development to the likes of Dell, Gateway, and Compaq. These guys did quite well (in the short term, two are gone and one is struggling now).

Today, PCs are progressing so slowly that you can bump your lineup once or twice a year and do just fine. When the real differences between products diminish, it's time to start thinking about other ways to differentiate products, such as industrial design and lifestyle branding. Clearly the likes of Dell have never been any good at this, so Microsoft might as well step in.

You could even look at Apple's problems in the 90s being due to their not being able to iterate hardware designs quickly enough and having to compete against faster iterating products with real advantages. As the pace of hardware advancement dropped, Apple's advantages became more salient, and its slow pace of hardware iteration became another advantage (no confusing list of overlapping products and discounted slightly-out-of-date products).

All of this presupposes that Microsoft can actually execute. The only true hardware products Microsoft has ever really done have been the XBox and XBox 360. Everything else was pretty much built by someone else with a Microsoft logo stamped on the box.
The plain text password thing might have been an edict come down from marketing.

For example, they might find that people who forget their password become less likely to use the site because when they get their new (hard to remember) password emailed to them they can't figure out how to change the password back to what it used to be. This means they end up resetting their password every week to do their shopping.
Reminds me of the banks with their "enter the first and fourth characters of your password"-type enhanced login forms. How are they doing that without storing the plaintext, then?
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What's really weird to me is how some people can foster an actual anti-security mindset, where they explicitly try to argue against proper security practices. I don't know where it comes from, but i've seen it often.

You report that the way a particular type of SSL cert is implemented leaves a MITM attack, and they come back with a dissertation on why MITM is not a concern of ours. (Oh? Then why the fuck are we encrypting the connection?!)

You tell them that they have unpatched, years-old, remote root vulnerabilities in their servers, and they give you the long list of reasons why we not only don't need to patch it, patching it would be bad.

You tell them how storing a password unhashed will lead to a PR catastrophe when an attacker gets your PW DB. They tell that implementing scrypt isn't feasible, bcrypt is weaker than scrypt, SHA1 hashes are easily crackable, and that if somebody has our PW DB we have bigger problems, so we shouldn't even worry about the passwords. And since we shouldn't worry, we might as well e-mail them.

My guess is they think it will be extra work and they're trying to avoid it. The alternative that I hope isn't true is that their egos are so big they don't want to believe they did something insecurely, so they craft a story to tell themselves and others that actually what they did was smart. Either way, the users lose out in the end, and there's nothing we can do about it.
You know a technical blog post was interesting and informative when it spawns 5+ tabs of other articles and Google searches on the topic!
No, the number one priority is shipping a product that customers buy. As Apple has shown, developers will learn a new language, new API, and new toolchain if the customers are there.

Heck, Microsoft proved it with Windows 3/95.
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I guess the question then would be; what if he didn't have the ability to put Mensa on the resume?

I don’t intend to be rhetorical; it would be great to hear some other suggestions.
Given the results reported in this article, HN might be the only forum on the web that will ignore the circumstantial, irrelevant and associative connection between circumcision and religion, eschew silly polemics, and proceed to discuss the real issues at hand. (Fingers crossed...)
Can someone please explain to me why the Pi is good for those looking to learn to code in python or scratch? Both are cross-platform, and both rely very little on the OS they run in, at least at the basic level.
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It's difficult to start if you don't have a formal paper or don't want to lie about it... if you have proven yourself somewhere already, it's not a problem anymore.

I had very slow start because I didn't want (or know how) to lie about my education, I'm doing great now don't care about it anymore.
Your attitude is not one of progress.
In many industries they won't consider you without a degree. And if you lie, you will be caught (there's a clearinghouse specifically for this)
Step 1: acquire Pinterest.

Step 2: add no new features to it for five years, but force users to create a yahoo account to use it.

Step 3: fire all the developers.

Step 4: ???

Step 5: profit.

Oh wait, that was Flickr.
Did you happen to read the article? It has nothing to do with developing in ruby.
divide every possible number with 3 and store key value pairs. Return, the answer in O(1), when asked to divide.
Cool idea! Is it possible to scale this with a bigger matrix display?
Looking forward to when they release a Cortex A7 (dual core maybe?) version that can run Ubuntu.
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I think the tech media built these devices up a bit too much to the general consumer public. They are really a learning tool that you can tinker with, not a 'cheap pc' like they were built up to be. So many people got theirs after the pre-order wait and immediately complained about the performance. Think of them as a beefed up Arduino style device and you'll love it, think of it as a cheap computer for consumer use and you'll obviously be unhappy.
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Is anyone else disappointed that the best answer (the standard div() function) was passed over in favor of massively inefficient bit-twiddling wankery?
The fact that they had to bring someone else in means that they thought it necessary to evaluate him differently. Had nothing to do with Mensa.
Heck, it's difficult to read on a desktop. Having horizontal scrollbars in the middle of the page is less than ideal.
Yeah that was overly simplistic.

I guess the issue is that the layman cannot really tell how secure a solution is, and so are unlikely to be able to make well reasoned decisions about the information they release. As such there really needs to be a far greater level of responsibility placed on people who hold the keys so to speak. Once again this is especially true since people re-use (and use overly simple) passwords at a scary rate. By not protecting their information on a crappy real estate website you are potentially leaving open their bank to abuse.

I feel instances like these just show dangerous levels of incompetence and a blatant disregard for user's information. Good solutions generally require less work anyway so there's no excuse.
Simple Perl solution, using string/numeric coercion. Don't think there's anything here you couldn't do in C. Uses a 30-item lookup table. I've made it round, rather than adding precision logic for recurring 3s...

https://gist.github.com/3206885