skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It's very unlikely. I can't think of a scenario where it could be changing the CSS and/or HTML that still leaves it syntactically and semantically valid.
I don't think your link - at least the first page - supports your conclusion.

Average salary for a pilot at American Eagle - a regional airline affiliated with American - is 46k. Average salary for a fast-food manager/assistant manager are 33-39k (see my link upthread).
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This post confused me in terms of itinerary options available. If you decide to setup a trip "contest", is there any way to specify whether you want economy or business class?

Also, in terms of experts guarding their tips, what's to stop users sharing/comparing/aggregating their contest and tips/tricks behind them elsewhere? Eg if someone asks on quora and several customers answer with details of their bookings...
The thing I hate is when people make excuses for it. Especially when those people purport to represent the company that made the mistake:

> Besides, 16 character long password can have 2.8 nonillion possible combinations. You are more likely to reuse your passwords and got owned through that than password brute forcing.

That's a terrible excuse for a 16-character limit. Just admit it was a bad decision (probably made a long time ago) and move on.
EDIT: i'm wrong
His lab is still there. It's not just dirt.
I propose an iOS AppStore Fast Track app approval process
What I learned: "Cheddar has shirts!"

I'll give it to them that, for the first 2 seconds, I was starting to get very curious. After 3 seconds, I was gone.
Yes. Obama ran on change but when he met the entrenched interests of executive branch Washington, he quickly refashioned himself into George Dubya Bush's third term. His civil rights policy, technology policy, tax policy, financial regulatory policy, and many others confirm it.

The only major difference is that Obama always really wanted to catch Bin Laden and Bush -- openly -- didn't care. Now that that's over, he seems to want to run for Bush's fourth term.
Are they really failing? I can agree that many are spending too much time perfecting apps - but I haven't yet heard many stories of companies going belly up. Maybe others have?

I'm definitely expecting a pretty big fallout from all the funded startups of the past 3 years, but haven't yet seen evidence.
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I believe that eventually feature phones will be replaced by smartphones.

Do you believe that Bada will be a smartphone OS comparable to Android/iOS/WP in the sense that people looking to buy a smartphone will buy a Bada-based one instead of one that's WP (or iOS/Android) based? I don't believe that.

If people simply want the phone with the best camera than it wont matter if it's Bada or Android or WP. But if people expect to run apps/games on it than it will matter.

Bada's "growth" is simply due to Samsung replacing their previous feature phone OS with Bada. Even if the overall market is in decline, Bada's share of it will increase as Samsung adopts it in more of their models.
Yeah it would be nice for the article to compare and contrast, say, Instagram and Color. The author could probably cite Color for an example supporting his argument. However Instagram is a notable counter-example that needs to be addressed.
I've played around with writing a couple of mobile apps (iOS and WP7) in my spare time. I think of this as a hobby since I have a day job. That said, I have this mental block -- for me, a mobile app does not make a viable startup. Sure there are apps that do quite well -- iTeleport comes to mind.

Other apps like Instagram, Groupme, and a few others have more of a platform feel rather than just a self contained app. Foursquare is another example of an app that is becoming more -- using the acquired data for recommendations, etc.

Do others thing similarly?

[edit] - NOTE - I make the above statement in the sense of trying to figure out how to justify angel/venture backing for what is strictly a mobile app.
Two points

1. Yes, most startups failed in 1999 and most startups are failing now. This isn't unexpected. Anytime, there is a boom in startups, most of them are going to fail.

If the first 10 startups succeed there will be 100 more. If the first million startups succeed, there will be 10 million more. Ultimately, most of them will fail.

2. imo Andrew is mistaken in assuming that the failures are due to startups having a "super high bar for initial quality in their version 1".

If anything, I'd say that the quality of many apps is too low, Many of the big-name apps are often unstable and crash (not just in the V1 version, but in later versions as well)
Funny how those who suggest that there is a smear campaign in progress are themselves then smeared.
Unfortunately not available to italian customers, who'd have to purchase it at 19 euros (23 dollars). Is there a legal workaround?
It seems to me like a lot of ostensibly technically-literate people are installing Windows 8 and not realizing that it's asking them to create a Live account instead of a Windows account. Is the option to create a normal account difficult to find or something?
The media and company never spin it as a failure, but what do you think all these small acqui-hires are?
The rules for economy were that to be freely bookable online. The contest was a while ago now though so the same deals they took advantage of probably ended.
They should rename it "Malkovich":

Malkovich saw what I was working on and showed it to
Malkovich Malkovich (Art Director who worked with
Malkovich Malkovich), and he said something like "that's
Malkovich!"
I'm a bit drunk, so uh, yeah.

LSB steganography is trivially easy to detect. Do not use LSB steganography.

Steganography can be provably secure, with the correct amounts of plain text and "cover data".

Here's one PDF. (http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~biglou/PSS.pdf)

Some people need this kind of stuff to work to avoid torture or other serious consequences, but most implementations are toys to demonstrate proof of concept or to play with the ideas.

tl:dr a real cryptographer will be along to correct my mistakes and provide sensible links.
Citing examples isn't necessarily rude. Present it like impartial analysis. That helps the audience actually learn something from the article.
I had a short email conversation with someone on the Live team. His stance was pretty much what you said: Somewhere, someone screwed up, and now it's sorta ingrained, and since 16 characters allows decent passwords, it's not a high priority to fix.

The stupid part is this[1]: Passwords cannot contain spaces or "non-English" characters.

1: http://help.outlook.com/en-gb/140/cc540536.aspx

Edit: The double stupid here is the fact that non-ASCII is referred to as "non-English". I'm pretty sure e.g. résumé is a correct English spelling.
It is the old, "I do not know this person, but I intensely dislike them as a person. I feel this has great relevance to all legal matters concerning this person" routine. It it commonly seen in discussions about Assange and Dotcom.
It was started today. The oldest comment on the thread [1] was 3 hours a go.

Also, TheOatmeal just posted on his Facebook page: “$100,000 in 3 hours and 20 minutes” [2]

[1] http://theoatmeal.com/blog/tesla_museum

[2] http://www.facebook.com/theoatmeal
Yes. The most likely result is a tit-for-tat expulsion of ambassadors, followed by a quiet re-establishment of diplomatic ties in about a year's time.
Judging by their move to ebooks, the cost will only be marginally scaled down.

I do really look forward to a distribution system that will benefit content creators and be convenient and fair to consumers. I just don't know what it looks like. It's an excellent opportunity for someone with an idea, though.
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From the Indiegogo page:

All the funds raised from this campaign are going directly to a non-profit group. Details about the non-profit behind this project can be found on their website: Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe

He's not building a new museum; he's raising funds so the Tesla Science Center at Wardenclyffe[1] can buy Tesla's final laboratory and turn it into a museum.

[1] http://www.teslasciencecenter.org/about/
Awesome. Given that their services look Ruby-centric, maybe they could take over PL/Ruby and point out that this would allow people to write their stored procs in Ruby too.
rsync.net will fully support Git-annex (it was brought to our attention a month or so ago by our friend Jason Scott).

We're excited about this project.
What about the Android fragmentation problem? In the words of MG Siegler today:

"The problem is that all of these different devices require testing for each and every app. They all create a different Android experiences — some in subtle ways, some in big ways. Some run certain Android apps, others don’t. Some apps work fine on one device then are buggy as hell on another one. Sometimes this gets fixed, sometimes it doesn’t. It depends on the popularity of that device and the resources the development team has."

[source] http://parislemon.com/post/29497373610/im-not-sure-fred-wils...
It's still peanuts: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2096628/British-fore...
Perhaps, but I'd wager that the copyright lobby uses the same justification for their own anti-consumer actions.

I believe one must be careful not to use the same means, even though improving the privacy of Facebook users and non-users alike is a worthy end.
Seeing the same behavior on IE10 RTM as well.
Apparently something is missing here. How did he get from being in custody to seeking asylum in an embassy? Somewhere along the way he was not in custody. Why was he not in the custody of law enforcement? They had no reason to hold him? He was out on bail? If he was out on bail, lost an appeal, why didn't he return to custody?

If they didn't want him walking around (where he could claim asylum in an embassy) then he should have been in custody. If he wasn't in custody, there must have been a reason he wasn't. Sounds to me like they (law enforcement) screwed up and they're now trying to blame an Ecuadorian ambassador.
You mean West Germany. We're talking about East Germany.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Germany

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Germany
> "If the US shows up with a video of Assange killing someone it will have been made on a Hollywood renderfarm."

I remember when that idea was just the plot of a mediocre Michael Crighton book. That it doesn't strike me as absurd anymore is either amazing or frightening. How would you even begin to fight that kind of evidence in front of a jury?
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Hi, I recently messing with my vimrc and wanted to see what have other hackers put in their .vimrc file.
If you could make a github gist post and paste the link, that would appreciated. thanks.
Complainers gonna complain.
The iOS app review process is insanely long. So long that I started and released my first Android app while waiting for an iOS app to be reviewed.

FWIW there's some ways of mitigating the iOS review times. For example my apps download a small XML config file whenever they start up or come back from the background. So I can turn on/off features in the app remotely. Of course this requires the features to come bundled with the app. IMO it's worth it if you want to iterate.
I'd love to hear from someone who has built on both platforms extensively. My concern with this path is that the QA madness of the world of Android would slow you down as much (or more) than the app store madness of Apple?
http://code.google.com/edu/submissions/html-css-javascript/

Look at the css section. id's, classes, and selectors have weights which are used to determine which rule wins in the event of a conflict.
So what are the chances of someone who's never really dealt with web security capturing the flag? Last year's results don't make it seem too promising, 12k unique IP's -> 250 captures.
The thing is, I don't even like the guy. Wikileaks is fantastic, but we can credit him for his involvement with that without whitewashing the person.

Even if I were to only accept the parts his own lawyers have conceded, the statements do paint the picture of someone who is quite a bit of an asshole. Maybe he is a bit of a misogynist, though I think it's more likely he is "just" a bit narcissistic and didn't really take anyones feelings into account. Add in some paranoia - even if people are after him, he comes across as believing they care more than I think they do.

I just think there are a lot of things about this case that are fishy to the point where there's good reason to be extremely suspicious about the motivations of some of the people involved, even if one discounts the idea of US involvement. He might very well be guilty for what I know, but that still doesn't mean there's nothing weird going on with how the whole situation has been handled.
My point was: the OP took one negative fact ("young girls carry feces") and proceeded to paint the whole country of 1.2Billion with that. That game can be played by pointing out the homeless in SF too. See how silly it looks?
I've had a few days to think about this.

Now, having seen some of the alternative systems suggested, I think I agree.

I instinctively do not want to give my password to anyone. And that's a great habit to get into, and we want regular people to get into that habit. That would make phishing less useful.

In this case it seems they're trying really hard to protect your domain from harm. But yes, I've been mostly persuaded.
It seems to me that there are two kinds of apps: the "top 100" apps and "the rest." If you have a killer smashing out-of-the-ballpark idea that will be "top 100", go ahead and be a startup.

For the rest, it seems to me that App Store economics just don't provide enough profit for overhead (personnel and investors needing return on investment) of the traditional startup. One or two-person self-employed shops survive. Great news if you want to be self-employeed and have a good idea; Terrible news if you were planning on winning the startup lottery.

EDIT: Need to point out the above is opinion unfettered from the constraints of fact. I welcome news of facts which refute my guesses.
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Well, I think DLC lets a small minority pay much more than a developer would ever ask for as a sales price. Like a $50 iPhone game would be crazy, but people really do buy that much content.

So even if most people do hate DLC... it just doesn't matter.
If your whole goal is to use Android as the platform to build your MVP, you can probably live with limiting your app to, say, only ICS and up to begin with. This cuts down drastically on the fragmentation issues. Even though Gingerbread is still dominant, 1K "guinea pigs" is not an unreasonable goal on ICS.
Is everyone else seeing banner ads in the Metro apps included with Windows 8 RTM?
My favorite part of this is the slow Internet connection, which tells me that git annex will be optimized for poor connections. :)
Last time it was all low-level vulnerabilities, which require some work to exploit (I even struggled with a couple of them, and I've been working on that sort of thing for many many years). This time around it's websec, which is considerably easier in most respects, and the main knowledge you need is pretty standard for any web developer. You just need to turn things around and look at it from the perspective of "what happens from input to output?"
I get a blue box on Opera for Windows.
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Yeah, I have also had multi-row inserts deadlock against themselves in MySQL.

However, you need to reword that slightly. MySQL does have such a working insert statement if you set strict mode. The problem is that apps can unset strict mode. Until that changes.....

So really you should word it as:

"One that can be guaranteed not to randomly truncate your data, or allow insertion of nulls into not null columns."

MySQL inserts in strict mode don't do these things. MySQL inserts cannot be guaranteed not to do these things however. Therefore this relegates MySQL, in my view, to a one-app-per-db environment because you cannot prove that your db constraints will be properly enforced and therefore have to independently verify this aspect in every app that connects.
In 2012 a journalist is persecuted in this way. I never would have expected this to happen.
Agree and disagree. At my last job I had 6, 2008 & 2010 all installed (legacy apps, yay).

6 was amazingly responsive but sucked if you had to read/write anything (like, say, compiling).
2008 was average-slow at everything.
2010 had a go-away-&-make-a-coffee startup time that pounded the HDD, but after that was VERY fast given the complexity of the jobs it was given.
I find it particularly insulting when a web application tells me my family name has "invalid" characters.
Wow, I'm excited. Last time I got to the last level (well, next to last level) and hit a wall with my skill-sets and my available time to complete the challenge.

I like the idea of being on a team. So, Let's get this started; I'm looking for a team! I'm an experienced C developer (work on and manage a transactional processing platform day-to-day) who works with MySQL+Memcache heavily. SQL injections, memory, buffer overflows and algorithms will be my strong points while javascript/xss attacks may be my shortcomings. Email is in my profile.
Already discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4388385
[1] http://coding.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/27/css-specificit...

This is a feature, not a bug. Its called CSS specificity.

Although, the link[1] seems to suggest it should be 100, not 256... that might be a bug.
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I assume that would be a common trigger! Until that point, they may hope to be acquitted and not have to flee the country. For example, Chen Guangcheng escaped house arrest and fled to the U.S. embassy. The Chinese were not happy about that, and applied pressure, but they didn't send police into the embassy.
It's definitely not intended that beginners can easily finish, but we hope that everyone can get something out of it. We were actually fairly happy with the conversion rate from start to finish last time. If everybody finishes, it presumably means the later levels weren't hard or interesting enough.

We hope that people new to web security can solve the first few levels with some work and inspection, and the later levels with hints from others or a significant amount of research into the topics.

At the end of the day, the point of the exercise is to expose realistic vulnerabilities for fun and education. We try to make them similar to how they'd be in the wild.
I'm not sure Instagram is a counter-example. They didn't fail, but they never made any revenue either. They just raised a lot of funding and sold the company to Facebook. That's winning the startup lottery, not building a sustainable business.
I can't believe anyone could say this with a straight face when comparing VS2010 with VS2008. 2012 is much improved and almost feels as fast as 2008.
This looks like a raw smear against Assange. Would be interesting to know the political pressures being brought to bear on the Swedish prosecutor's office.
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The app store updates aren't really THAT big of a problem with Apple. I mean it isn't pleasant for sure. But you can use TestFlight or something while still in beta. I'm not sure that will scale to product/market fit but it will scale enough to give you good engagement metrics.
Based on Twitter chatter, Anonymous is indeed gathering supporters in Britain outside the Ecuadorian embassy as we speak.
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I'm getting the feeling that this 'controversy' is mostly media hype.

Each outlet mentions this 'threat' to enter the embassy, but do we really believe that it is just a coincidence that this 'threat' would come on the day that the embassy announces if it will grant Assange political asylum?

If they don't grant him asylum, he may be forced to leave the embassy (I suspect), and therefore the UK has the right to arrest him after he leaves.

This doesn't make sense...
For the curious, this appears to be:

"The Stone Dogs (1990) by S. M. Stirling [...] third book in the alternate history series, The Domination."
What are you doing that you need to alter your schema so often?!
Is the museum (descriptions, films, etc.) presented in English, or in Serbian only? I have to ask because I often find museums to be presented in the native language. In Berlin, for example, which has a bunch of great museums (such as the Pergamon museum), almost everything is in German.
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Let's see in PostgreSQL 8.4 and higher...

a is accomplished by windowing functions. These can also do running totals among other things which is really helpful in accounting environments.

b has been supported since at least 8.3. I think a column can actually be an array of complex types in 8.4 and higher (it can be a tuple in 8.0-8.3 at least though I reported a bug in this in 7.3 which resulted in a "don't do that" check).

c is handled using common table expressions.

Examples for b and c:

CREATE TABLE foo (id int, value text);

CREATE TABLE bar (id int, values foo[]);

INSERT INTO bar (values) values ({row(1, 'test')}); -- not sure if this is quite the syntax. Might take some playing around with.

For C look at examples at http://ledgersmbdev.blogspot.com/2012/07/ctes-and-ledgersmb....

We use this extensively for things like relation to tree generation.
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You seem to know a lot about fully distributed systems. Can you recommend some resources for learning more about the design and building of distributed systems and some good open source projects to study from?
Exactly. Pre-rolls and banners suck (since they are coming from traditional newspapers/web page/TV era), so we are building video ad network for developers so they can plug to our APIs and grab our videos to place them in their APPs(streams etc), facebook apps, mobile etc the way they want it.

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This raises many point and given the area's looked at are easier to observe as apposed to very dense area's and that ants are global then it does make you think. What strikes me is the issues with testing GM crops in open area's, nature has many ways of spreading seeds and this does raise many issues upon that front that may not of been factored in fully.
wow that is such a win. I wish I didn't give away all my k'nex to my cousins who don't even build anything with them.
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Can you give an example(or a link to an article discussing this)? I've never had the displeasure of working with the Windows API(though I often shook my head when I saw code for it)
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50M!? 5 would be more likely, assuming stripping. As opposed to 5k with dyn libs.
Oh okay. I think I'm going to trust the guy who wrote the linux kernel over...duaneb.
There is also an example of Numba in action in the comments of the following post about benchmarking Cython's memoryview for array slicing:

http://jakevdp.github.com/blog/2012/08/08/memoryview-benchma...