skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Url based session ids led to me finding a quite substantial security hole in a popular games mod website that allowed me to modify and delete my mods without being logged in. Also was able to view my own download history, potentially very embarrassing for some people.

So yes, I can testify that in this websites case their use of session ids in the url during a website renovation (where people were posting their urls on the forums to help fix bugs) led to a lot of people being made vulnerable.

I just wish they'd at least thanked me for informing them of the vulnerability...
Easily faking your phone number has been around long before this app.

http://www.spoofcard.com/
vmg clearly has a career in standup if this coding thing doesn't work out.
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Regardless of how good ZFS is, if it can't be shipped native on Linux nobody will care. Much. Though it is a neat file system. And I would love to see it in the Kernel.

Unfortunately it's now controlled by Oracle so you're probably lucky that you can use it without hiring an 'storage consultant' for $100k+ a year.
I'd argue that with the level of false positives it needs improvement.

I won't argue that the existing system isn't both impressive in terms of scale and complexity, just that it's not working as well as it should over something like blocking ma & pa's home video for the Britney Spears track you can hear in the background.
Ask HN: Would it be feasible to install dark fiber while building a home?
With Google rolling out 1 Gbps connections to Kansas City, SSDs easily saturating 1 Gbps LANs (~500 MB/s vs 125 MB/s), and 4k/8k video on the way would it be prudent to outfit a new home with a bunch of dark fiber to all of the rooms? Equipment for 10 GbE is still pricey but falling fast. You could always wait for the non-fiber equipment cost to go down before you switch from, say, using CAT6/1 GbE. Any idea what the dark fiber alone would cost? I would assume that multi-mode would be sufficient but would single-mode fiber offer better upgrade paths?
> Police love having an excuse to put on the swat team gear and bang on doors, regardless of what country they live.

Don't underestimate the impact of this simple truth.
While I agree with your point, you seem to be suggesting that you'd put this example on the worst side of things. I'd say that everyone smelling bad is a problem and I'm really glad somebody solved that problem.
Okay. I've just not sure I want my name and face popping up on a console at Starbucks just because I'm walked in the place.

Especially not unless I have HUD glasses that will tell me the cute barista's name.
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So... who is your customer? The card holder? The issuing institution? How much would YOU pay for this, and how likely would YOU be to give a reminder app banking access?
I'm not saying this isn't worthwhile, but as described, it's not that appealing.
That's perhaps not the name/positioning you want when you get the (inevitable) abuse complaint.
The common sense part of me says this is far too optimistic. After all, we haven't put people on the moon in nearly 40 years.

However, the hopeful part of me thinks it's possible. In 10 years SpaceX has gone from nothing to launching capsules into space and docking them with a space station.

Even it it takes 40 years, it's good to have someone pushing things forward. I really hope I live to see the first human walk on Mars.
I see a lot of talk in this discussion about debit cards. I currently have only a debit card through my bank with my checking account, however, always run it as a visa and NEVER run it as a debit card. A lot of times, for small purchases, I don't have to sign, so it's quicker then running it as debit since I'd have to enter my pin. I don't know why I never run it as debit. Something about entering my pin in line at a store with people around?
Those might work for Twitter, but there may be some lurking variables on Reddit. While they never bother to catch yea and anyways, Redditers do have a tendency to pile on about the few grammatical/spelling errors they can spot. For example, if a post title says "could of", there's likely going to be multiple comments discussing the error and thus tripping my hooks.

Edit: As for the axes, I made some stylistic decisions that I wouldn't dare to make were this being submitted to the Annual New Media Socio-Linguistics Journal.
Yes, it is possible. There are organisations who act as third-party sponsors for J-1 visas. An example is http://cipusa.org/. These organisations help with some of the paperwork, lowering the amount of work required by the applicant (you) and the company.

You are probably right in that the amount of formalia and paperwork is rather large for a small startup, but there are certainly larger companies that are willing to put in the work. I did an internship at a company in the US, and I live in Sweden.

I urge you to try, an internship in another country can be a great learning experience.
If it's public domain they are totally allowed to do that, however they shouldn't be taking the original down, hell no.
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Is it any worse than Hashable?
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A chickpea is neither a chick nor a pea.
If what you are saying is correct then it seems like the British a-level system is almost exactly the same in terms of grades.

A* to E, and then an actual failure is a U, so as to not just be a continuation from E I assume.
Cool. As we all know, ideas are worthless. It's the execution that matters.
I bet that they not only do it, but do it at a price lower than the current unmanned rover mission.
Forgive me, I meant if the criticism is in response to actual prejudice.
Not everyone can be tptacek.
Nobody is "making money off feeling oppressed".
I think he's suggesting that the sweat is a problem whether it smells or not.
Agreed. I would also like tutorials on how to write a game using C# and OpenGL (and some audio library???), and then use the version of Mono that targets Chrome Native Client.
I agree. 1m android devices doesn't relate directly to 1m iphones sales in app sales, app download, use & web browsing.

The direction does matter and android web traffic is definitely where I can see it.
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The way I always take it when I hear someone say they're their own person and they reject society is that they're merely choosing another culture to fit into. Counter-culture is not the lack of a culture, but rather the rejection of mainstream culture and instead choosing to fit in with a different group.

Emo/scene, goth, skinhead, hipster, whatever group they're a part of, it's true that they are being an individual and being counter-culture if you take the language liberally to mean they're simply making a choice to associate with another culture. Even if it's just a phase or a fad, but those people are not similar to the rest of society. Every society has a dress code; by not being a part of the majority, they are in fact "unique" in the meaning of "not typical; unusual". Language is fun!

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/unique
When we tested out other names, people kept saying, "you mean like a burner?"
I'd think its much more likely we'd be sending people to Mars on a regular basis if we found out there is something valuable there. If space tourism was sufficient to foot the bill for space travel, we'd be sending school field trips to the moon by now.
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This is almost certainly true, except for the "stats that matter" bit. If you want to sell an app today, iOS is still the platform to target first. But that's not a stable position.

If Android becomes the platform that "everyone" has, then the next disruptive consumer change is, almost by definition, going to happen there. This is largely what happened to the Mac -- the platform that had the best of everything in 1988 was, by 1994, suddenly unable to run all the new toys everyone wanted. When Win95 was released it wasn't even all that technically superior anymore. And by 1998 it was almost dead (and, but for the iPod's success, probably would have died).
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It depends on your use case. In the world of preservation, ZFS is a godsend. If you're trying to run a database, copy-on-write is going to defeat you. Not that it isn't possible, but it's surely something you're going to have to work against.

Fortunately, there are types of vdevs other than RAIDZ, and using SSDs for the ZIL can improve things as well.

http://www.solarisinternals.com/wiki/index.php/ZFS_Evil_Tuni...
The customer is the card holder. Main target would be people with multiple credit cards.

I would pay $10/month for this service.

All access would be handled by a 3rd party secure API (Yodlee).
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Mostly, I agree. Except with the part about (laws that legitimize) violence against people. In this case, the problem, IMO, is not sexism/discrimination, but violence as such.

I wrote the above mostly because I wanted to make a statement, and I wasn't in the mood for writing lengthy arguments. Also, from a purely philosophical point of view, where we analyze not the actions, but the motivations and principles behind them, the statement holds true, because accusing someone of being sexist is both sexism (belief that people of different sex differ in more than their most basic biology (which they maybe do, but that shouldn't be generalized)), and ad-hominem, which is (philosophically) worse than being just sexist.
Think long term, would you still have fun with older tech in 2 years?
Except in practice you have both factors on the phone (unless you don't use the phone for anything else than .. phone and an authenticator? that just never happens)

so, no, you just need to think about it a little while longer.
Only if Burner is handling the outgoing phone calls (to your real phone number) themselves. Seems like you could bridge a phone call to a Twilio phone number to the end user's real phone with the <Dial> element pretty simply: http://www.twilio.com/docs/api/twiml/dial
We (hn) have this gnome debate often enough it has been talked out to death. Nobody likes unity except for a few. Many of us using Ubuntu (me included) don't really care much about the desktop GUI, I spend most of my time in shells. Anyone that does care about the windowing likely switched to OSX years ago.

That aside, this article seems to think that new media production is being done on Linux. My experience is that this is owned by osx. Adobe's creative suite is the lifeblood of any media development and the Linux equivalents are not as good. If you're commercially invented to create new media then you'll use the best tools for the job.

Linux has contributed to media creation in rendering farms and such, but gnome played no part in that decision.
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It wont happen. Spacex will just spend alk the government's money then say oops. We missed the target date, can we have more money.
You have to enable the automatic feature, otherwise it's a manual slide to open a tab process.
This app is amazing... You should really watch the introduction video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSZ_Q97LXH8 - So many features, and such a killer interface.

It's now on a discount - $5 instead of $12.

(I'm not the author, nor do I know who s/he is)
The bigger problem is that good SEO will bring you more traffic than good writing will.
I wish I could get a foothold on natural-deduction. I feel that it would be great to have an intuitive understanding, but at the moment all I can see is symbolic manipulation.
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Yes, but it's much better to have a problem you can actually solve by taking responsibility yourself, rather than a problem whose solution relies on someone else being nice to you against their own interest (Southern Europe being on the same currency as Germany).
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I guess I'm disagreeing that they're "basic misspellings" in the first place, or related to someone's reading experience. Informal spoken English is often different from written English, and some people Tweet closer to how they'd speak. That doesn't mean that the same people would write the same way if they were writing a book (they probably wouldn't use "yeah" in a book, either), or that a certain dialect of spoken English is "incorrect".

I think you're measuring something other than spelling here, closer to measuring prevalence of certain dialects. Especially in the "anyways" example: if there's something objectionable about that word, it's a usage objection, not a spelling objection. People really do say "anyways", and that would be the correct way of writing it if you accept that usage. Spelling it "enyways" or "annyways" or something would be an orthographic error, on the other hand.
Interesting. I might give that a try.

On a more conventional note, while we're recommending deodorants, this is hands down the best I have ever used: http://www.amazon.com/MenScience-12031-Advanced-Deodorant-2-...

That is the only deodorant I've ever encountered which can last me through 4 hours of chatting in a hot stuffy bar, which was truly a revelation to me, silly as that may sound. No association with the product other than as a customer.
They also charge more if you have to key in the card manually (2.75% per scan vs 3.5% + 0.15 USD per manual entry).
A lot of these seem like btrfs user-interface problems. Is the actual filesystem incapable of doing all of these?
You have to apply it on clean/washed (after-shower) skin, not apply anything else, and use it consistently every day for a few weeks. It's also not an anti-perspirant. It just kills-off the bacteria. I suppose YMMV with how well it works for you, depending on what you're looking to get out of it, and how extensive the bacteria colonies are on the skin, and below the surface.
Android is very popular in a lot of poor countries which means it's not going to make much money as the IPhone. Even in the US, Android is more popular in the lower-income demographics.

However, smartphones could be life-changing for poor people. They probably won't be able to afford a computer but an Android phone for under $100 is within their reach.

Poor people with smartphones mean they have access to more information and will be able to communicate easier. I've read stories about how basic phones with SMS empowered people in poor countries. They could do much more with smartphones.

So if everything is about the money, yeah, Android is definitely losing.
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More information about how the picture was taken:

It is presented in false color to emphasize differences between materials in the scene. It was assembled from 817 component images taken between Dec. 21, 2011, and May 8, 2012, while Opportunity was stationed on an outcrop informally named "Greeley Haven," on a segment of the rim of ancient Endeavour Crater.

http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.cfm?release=2012-196
Bravo, man. This is so brilliant.
what do you think happens, when you type the password that's safely stored in your head, onto your phone?:P
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the second is opinionated

It is a statement of reality. Choices can have consequences, and giving someone a choice with the implied notion that it is all win -- ignoring the very real consequences -- is a profound lie. The sophistry, and intense myopia around this conversation pushes such limits of intellectual dishonesty that I have to wonder what the agendas really are.

Just to be clear, my position is that the world would be a much better world minus all advertisements (television, the web, print, etc). I believe in direct compensation, micropayments, and all of that. But a lot of people think they can have their cake and eat it too, yet they can't.
Not everyone is rich enough to pay a "huge subscription" to every website they want to visit. In fact many of those who could benefit most from the information on the web are people without much monetary resources (developing countries , students etc)
Amazon has also had them in the UK, since at least September 2011 (http://www.pocket-lint.com/news/41989/amazon-locker-invades-...) which is almost a year now.

I moved to the UK from the US last December and thought it was a cool idea when I first saw one. Definitely makes sense in a city - more so than suburbs.
Google search for "disposable phone number" turns up a number of offers, sOme already out of business. What makes you think you have a business here?
SpaceX's contract is unique among contractors in that they are responsible for overruns.

Now, you could say they will change their mind when they run out of money, but frankly I would respond by pointing out that Elon really doesn't seem to be in it for the money, but rather despite the money.
You want pithiness AND accuracy? What next, blood? :-)
But yes, you're entirely correct.
I don't get all this fuzz about gnome3/unity and all that stuff, been using fluxbox since years and it's all I need, everything else seems redundant
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Would the new company be open to using newer technologies in the future, or at least in house?

I'd say go with the new job since change is good, and commutes are a killer.
That's because the iPhone severely limits what you can do with it. I'd say a one-time investment of 5 minutes to solve any battery life issues you might encounter is irrelevant compared to the feature differences between iPhone and Android.
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I think the wikipedia post is a great example.

I love wikipedia, but it is poorly designed. In fact, there has recently been speculation that the decline in new editors is due to wikipedia being too arcane, particularly on the edit side. Despite its popularity, I can't see how that basic notion is even controversial.

Meanwhile, somebody comes up with a redesign mockup and it's the end of the world because 1 page (out of ~ a dozen) doesn't make it easy enough for people to switch to the right language version?

Anyway, I'm not sure about 'all the hostility,' but I agree that thread was a little weird. I expected HN types to maybe not be thrilled with that redesign, but at least agree that wikipedia needs one.
Criticizing the actions of any government is what it is, but many critics of Israel go so far as to say there should be no Jewish state, which in effect means the Jews should be a people without a homeland, forever vulnerable to extermination by the Gentiles they are forced to live amongst as an eternal minority. That alone is suspicious as it carries the shadow of antisemitism, but once you throw in explicit support for groups like Hamas, the picture becomes clearer.

Except for a brief moment of shame after World War II, the general attitude of the West has always been antisemitic. Those seeking to criticize the actions of the Israeli government should have to work harder to distinguish themselves from the antisemites who merely disguise their attitudes as criticism of Israel.
One thing on my "bucket list" is to "use a bloom filter for something". They seem like such awesome data structures but I've never found a place to use one :-(
-- "Display a different number to protect yourself or pull a prank on a friend. It’s easy to use and works on any phone!"

Just because we can do things, and others do, means we shouldn't discuss the different use-cases and implications? I gather that most people are here to make a quick buck using their technical prowess, but to look away from possible misuse seems very shortsighted.
Your first statement is unfortunately true, ZFS won't get much adoption in Linux if it's not in the kernel.

However, your second statement is blatantly false. Much of ZFS development happens in the open in the illumos and FreeBSD communities. Joyent and Nexenta base their business on ZFS and pay people to work on the open source illumos.

(Disclaimer, I used to work for Nexenta).
If most apps were $5 and $10 instead of free and $.99, you would probably buy the $5 apps and wish the $10 were $5. For better or worse, people expect mobile apps to be <$1 or free.
This is why, at a certain level, after a certain length of time, most software companies (including startups, although it could be argued you're transitioning from startup to real company at that stage) need the oft-maligned "neckbeard" type folks (vmg sports some stubble, perhaps he's a closet neckbeard? :D).

Yes, it's great to have the latest JavaScript ninja working on your front-end and whiz-bang Ruby folks on the back-end but eventually you're gonna run into problems that require RealHardComputerScience(TM) to fix. Or, you just throw more hardware at it and forget about it, and end up paying for that oversight over-and-over-and-over (it looks like it didn't take him much time to fix it)
So you could jump right into the talking part- with a web interface you'll have to get a phone afterwards.
He is missing the point that the Gnome projects he listed are indeed Gnome projects but the projects he mentions "we" should focus on are not Gnome projects at all.
It's not up to Gnome to make LibreOffice or Blender better. It's up to the Gnome team to work on overall user experience and a solid base on which the programs he mentions run. big difference!

He should probably not talk about Gnome but about Ubuntu or RedHat focusing more other stuff or to the libreoffice teams or whatever.

Also: So far i enjoy the Gnome experience very much. It may have still some bugs but all in all, in my mind, the Gnome team succeeded with Gnome 3.x and the new design/layout/workflow.
Maybe you could do a one time analysis of different subreddits rather than a time series analysis?
I know the article isn't really the main attraction here, but what is up with this?

"He also laughs that the biggest payload on the Dragon Capsule that flew a mission to the International Space Station was a wheel of cheese."

I am pretty certain that capsule was stuffed. Didn't it take them days to unload it? Is this just a terribly worded sentence saying that the previous load was cheese?
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I like the general idea and presentation, but if you're seriously desiring to measure social shift, I think basing that judgment on "yea/yeah" and "anyway/anyways" usage is problematic. The former is dropping a silent letter from an arbitrarily-spelled informal word. The latter is a difference in dialect (i.e. culture), not intelligence.
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If you want to get your conspiracy theory head on this could be an attempt to pick winners in the online ad world. What if it becomes: Do not track (apart from Microsoft preferred partners).

As an aside: Lots of people also seem to have big misunderstandings about browser privacy settings, for example I've spoken with people who believe that the "private browsing" feature in the browser would allow them to browse porn without the IT dept finding out..
In 1961 we hadn't been to the Moon in forever.

There are a lot of risks. NASA's attitude to human spaceflight has been to move into a state of permanently studying the risks. If Musk is going to face the risks, he may be able to pull it off.

SpaceX really needs to start launching some rotating craft.
Zionism--i.e. the settlement and defense of Israel itself--is the Jews' best hope to protect themselves from extermination. You're damn right it's suspicious to criticize that concept.
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