skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well my point is I guess there should be no cookie set for the read-only experience. Once you do something that requires tracking some state server-side, then the session cookie might be set. For example if you are searching, or you submit some data (that might trigger the message flashed), I guess the page where you perform said action could contain the cookie notice and notify user that to perform such stateful action user will need to accept the cookie.

For example, if you visit a web shop, you shouldn't need to get any cookies when viewing a product page. If you decide to put it into shopping cart - then you would consent to getting a cookie. But no sooner!
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#1 by units not by units * price or profits which are around 2% of sales.
> What you linked to was comparable to saying Groovy is insecure because of the most recent vulnerability found in Java browser plugins.

Not really, because in .NET separating the "language" from the "framework" is a little thornier.

And the difference is all the more moot from a practical point of view: you still have to rush out and patch everything.

> However, when we get to a point where most apps are in frameworks, where would attackers turn their attention? Is an app inherently secure, or secure because it's less of a target?

You're not wrong in that widespread deployments of the same code base are what make these kinds of attacks possible in the first place; that's one downside of this kind of monoculture.

I can tell you however that these frameworks make it easier to write secure code in the first place. My business partner in my consultancy is a security researcher, and his job is to break apps. Frameworks like Rails make his life "harder" (in so far that one looks good by finding vulnerabilities); there is a ton of automated tooling that can probe and exploit a myriad of common-developer-mistakes-or-misconceptions.

Code you wrote within your team is audited by 10 people, tops. Code like Rails has been seen thousands of eyeballs. Even with several orders of magnitude of more attention, stuff like this still slips by. What are the odds you are better off?
Packetloop: Startup detects Oracle Java exploit in raw packet logs with Hadoop
I think that your explanation is essentially correct. But most of the Helium was formed during the 20 minutes after the Big Bang, not in the stars: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bang_nucleosynthesis
Not the framework, the Apache webserver. I am not aware that there has ever been a hole in Mason, and I would be surprised if there was.
> Does CookiesOK do any type of moderation over the cookies? Checking for domain scope, cookie flags, reasonable expiration of the cookie?

Based the "how does it work" section of their site, I don't think it does any sort of moderation/validation/inspection of cookies before trying to auto-click the consent button. My impression is that it's strictly a DOM-level utility and doesn't hook in at the network level where it could observe or manipulate cookies over the wire.
You can patent a data structure!? Seriously? This is straight up an abstract idea. I think non-abstract patents are beneficial and help society. This is just plain idiocy.
I can't read past the first page on my mobile. If the author collected stats, this would be both interesting and obvious.
Read the damn vulnerability description. I've actually just finishing the QA cycle on our app for this and its a very niche issue.
Is there any evidence that apartments rented out with AirBnB are more prone to crime and abuse of non-tenants than apartments not rented out with AirBnB?
Tap Your App - Add Ooomf to your App
In this podcast Eric talks with Mikael Cho from Ooomf about every tip, trick and tool developers need to “own the appstore.” Ooomf’s goal is to help every app developer out there “compete with the elite,” which is something that is harder and harder to do. We chat about how to get your app in the press. Mikael muses about the future of social media and utility apps, a future that is “filled with technological advancements that are just a little bit creepy” according to Eric.
Some men just want to watch the world scroll.

No seriously, this is great. An unexpected advantage is that's it is actually harder to skim. You're encouraged instead to read things thoroughly. I, for one, skim articles way too much.
As to your first point, you can turn all the sizes of that stuff way up in the settings.
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I've never had any incidents with `sudo !!`, however, I should point out that zsh (maybe other shells as well) replaces the `!!` with the full command and requires another press of Enter.

$ rm -rf /root
rm: cannot remove `root': Permission denied
$ sudo !! # Does not run this, but returns the line below.
$ sudo rm -rf /root # Then you say, "Wait I dont want to do this."
You are literally arguing for the destruction of the planet when you argue against density. More people living in a smaller space is much more efficient, and therefore less polluting energy.

San Francisco might be "ruined" by your definition, but how is it any of your right to tell people what they can and can not build on their land?

Zoning is central planning at it's worst.
Job losses in Newry after Jessops announces immediate closure
Ask HN: How would you monetize the domain ismyflightdelayed.com?
I waste a ton of my time messing around on aviation tracking websites. It's pretty crazy to monitor flight patters over the course of a day, especially for companies like FedEx.

I registered ismyflightdelayed.com for fun to mess around with some of the Flight Aware API's. I haven't given much thought on potential monetization (outside of ads) so I thought I would solicit feedback from HN.
> Re-running their crappy code and getting the same result they got doesn't really prove or verify anything.

Yes it does.

Very often, the data selected for publication is cherry-picked. Running the same crappy code on a more complete data set, (or alternatively, on a partial data set) would give a very quick indication of the robustness of the results - and unlike re-implementing, might be doable in a day rather than months of effort.

Furthermore, when you actually re-implement (if you do), it is extremely helpful to compare intermediate results, which is impossible unless you have the original everything.

> Re-implementing the algorithm they describe in the paper and getting the same result (or not) is far more interesting.

Yes, but very rarely done in fields that are not CS or EE (and not very common in these either). Usually, results are just taken as gospel.

Also, there is a ridiculous amount of negligence (and even fraud) in publications. just running the crappy code, seeing the results, and having a cursory look at the code and data would reveal a lot of that.
Timestamp: 11/01/2013 7:28:33 PM
Error: too much recursion
Source File: http://www.magicscroll.net/staticScroll.js
Line: 751

Firefox 17 on W7
That's quite astounding, yikes. I have less than 1 percent of CPU usage with my Chromium. (Using latest dev channel, built from scratch with -march=native -O2 -fomit-frame-pointers -pipe.)

If there's high CPU usage, file a Chrome bug -- it's possibly do to some nastiness in their audio decoder.
Which part of the book did you find most useful?
You think SpeakerDeck could put the forward and back buttons a few pixels apart so smartphone and tablet users would have a prayer of being able to navigate through a deck?

Am I missing something or is it really impossible to advanced through the pages with a smartphone?

EDIT: Ah hah, 'Download to PDF'
Is the pen mightier than the sword in a social world?
Not for me. I am far more likely to finish a news article on the web - with a physical newspaper, I read the beginning of many front page stories, but don't always flip to the rest of it.

I wonder how much of that can be attributed to the fact that you're just not sufficiently interested. Kind of like reading the blurb on a website, and then not clicking through to the article itself.

Something to keep in mind also: having articles continue in the remainder of the newspaper is a cultural (US? English-language?) thing. In Germany, articles in physical newspapers are not split up like that.
If I'm reading this right, he's talking about broader life goals, not just tasks as such. A strategy todo list to keep you on the right track, if you like.
Right, I really hated this when I first looked at it and did some scrolling. However, when I used it in conjunction with actual reading, it worked rather well. Long term, I don't know.

However, one thing I would like to see is the bar fading the text in and out as it scrolls. Both or one, I don't know. I found the bar too harsh. Im not saying it would be better, I'd just like to try it out to see.

Also, I'd like to see adobe reader do this. See if that improves the experience.
You're effectively asking whether apartments rented to unchecked strangers for days at a time are more prone to abuse than apartments rented months or years at a time.

There is a reason hotels require "special use" zoning exceptions in cities, and it's not because Mariott and Hyatt have captured the city council; it's often the residents who create uproars when those exceptions are granted.
I'm not sure what problems you're talking about in the first place.

That's the point. :-) A number of them have been enumerated above: protecting banking customers from loss in the event of theft; regulating the location and safety of hotels; providing some means of recourse against a dishonest cabbie.
Because it is bad.
...unless there is an A/B test running.
I also almost always add '-n' to iptables commands to disable reverse name resolution, which can sometimes take a while. Similarly when calling netstat.
Understanding the Clojure Development Ecosystem
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I love the curriculum for this program! Go get em Michael!
I don't rent - I own my apartment. I've invested in a property and a neighborhood zoned for a specific purpose. Cities are generally configured with zoning laws designed to preserve a certain standard of living for the larger community that extends beyond just a single apartment or building. It helps to preserve the intended use of those properties for people that choose to buy in those neighborhoods.

For instance it gives property owners in a residential neighborhood an assurance that a neighboring building can't decide to convert their rooftop to a nightclub potentially disturbing the neighboring buildings with noise, foot-traffic, car traffic, drunks, trash, fights, etc. If you gave individual landlords the right to make these decisions without wider oversight, you'd run into a lot more issues like these. Sure - today they can petition to override existing zoning regulations and that sometimes happens, but residential issues are larger than just an individual apartment or building.
This is pretty neat. I wonder what they use under the hood.
Do they really need the giant copyright on all of the maps?

To be fair, it's "Crown Copyright," which may have different effects, at least far as UK law in concerned:

http://www.oqps.gov.uk/about/faqs-copyright

No idea if splashing "Crown copyright" across everything is a direct requirement, but for all I know it might it.
NPAPI, the extension should soon be released for Firefox and Safari.

The torrenting part is done via Btapp.js/Torque.
> Naturally this list is in constant flux, and as I grow older my priorities change.

I benefit tremendously from having a "Life TODO" list of my own, but my list is designed to be in flux as little as possible. A constant state of flux for true life goals sounds like a recipe for doing a lot of interesting things an inch deep instead of a mile deep.
Trillion dollar coin or no coin, the debt ceiling attempts to regulate (in part) expenditures already authorized by Congress and signed into law. It's a tempest in a teapot for one party in Congress to argue that it's irresponsible to conduct authorized expenditures, because in fact, Congress did authorize the expenditures.

The two transactions, debt providing cash to the government, and seigniorage (difference in value from the metal in the coin and the fiat value asserted) providing cash to the government for the coin issuance are approximately equally inflationary, over time, assuming that the debt remains outstanding. If such a coin were undertaken, in all probability, it would be repurchased by the Treasury and retired, and debt would be issued. Indeed, the a return of the coin to the Treasury could be via issuance of debt directly to the Federal Reserve.

A little perspective on Federal Reserve Bank's process to create cash:

Federal Reserve Balance Sheet - by James Hamilton on Econobrowser

http://www.econbrowser.com/archives/2008/12/federal_reserve_...
Or if the dividing line was twenty times thicker. When pages are narrow, my brain tends to start reading the next line before it is finished reading the first line. Imagine how well this works out for me when the "next line" is not only from the previous page, but currently cut in half by the scroll line.
i'm putting all of our course materials online at www.learnhowtoprogram.com. only the first chapter (which is probably review for you) is publicly available now, but after the first class is over and we've hammered out the kinks, i'll make the entire curriculum available.

that said, i really think most people learn best with others, in person, so i'd really encourage you to take a trip for a couple months to join a class like epicodus or one of the other "hacker schools". (or convince someone to start one in dc!)
I didn't really enjoy the scroll, but did like the pagination.

A little tangential:
Xfce has a dictionary applet. That includes a speed reader. Which only displays words, one word at a time in quick succession. It's actually pretty simple to use. And works really well. I wouldn't have thought so. Should add that to smartphones. No scrolling required!
An Ode to the Best Snack
Your alternate solution gets annoying if the page has a header overlaying the text. Like Google+ does. Then you scroll a page, and have to scroll back a little.

That said, this solution will also break in that situation. But it will break worse since there will be no way to get the text at the top to scroll into view.
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ask them to register their flight and contact info (twitter, fb email, phone). You monitor their flight for them, if anything is wrong, you tell them with Twilio/twitter/fb, and also send them an ad.

Considering it's already a free service from carriers, I don't think you'll be able to do any sign ups.
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I seem to remember something like that as well.

However, writing down for your own benefit != telling someone else.
I think it's meant for when you run a command normally, but then realize you should have sudoed (sudid?) it. Though in that situation, I would still be inclined to do "↑ esc a sudo ". It's not a lot more work, but it is a lot less uncertain.
An exchange operator that operates both the exchange its self and its web-facing front end from the same server(s). You really have to wonder what they were thinking?

While a front end compromise is always going to be bad, splitting the two gives you more options and more ability to spot when the front end is acting unusually.
There is a page turn button on the far right.
I can't speak to the accuracy of the studies he's quoting here, but Derek Sivers talks about this in a post on his blog (https://sivers.org/zipit). Central quotes:

"Once you've told people of your intentions, it gives you a “premature sense of completeness.”"

"You have “identity symbols” in your brain that make your self-image. Since both actions and talk create symbols in your brain, talking satisfies the brain enough that it “neglects the pursuit of further symbols.”"

But, as others have pointed out, what Alex is talking about is (I believe) more of a list for your own benefit, rather than a publicly-shared list.
I've looked at this one, actually! Are you the author of beets itself?

beets is a great music importer. A few months ago I wanted to write something like that — looking up releases in a central repository, automatically correcting tags and renaming. But I hadn't got very far, so I abandoned the project when I saw you had already done it way better.

I would prefer if it pulled data from Discogs instead of MusicBrainz. Have you considered using the Discogs API? In my limited experience, MusicBrainz disappoints me by "correcting" tags to something wrong because there's a typo in the DB, or changing the typography ("and" -> "&", "... (Part One)" -> "..., Part 1") in a way that doesn't match the official track listing. Also a very, very large percentage of albums I run through beets aren't in the MB database at all. I think I'm spoiled by how good Discogs is: these problems would mostly go away. Last.fm's data might also be an improvement, though it's not on par with Discogs.

> it would be prudent to informally standardize a REST/JSON API for music collections

This sounds cool. If you come up with a spec for this, I'd like to know too (email in profile).
I would absolutely kill to be in this class. Unfortunately, I'm out of the US until March 1st. Sigh.
Because that's not always an available option in the housing market. There are some cities (for example, present day San Francisco) where city wide apartment vacancy is so low that tenants basically have to take what they can get. Tenants are at a serious disadvantage to the whim landlords in this kind of market. Thus laws exist that restrict what landlords are allowed to provide, which serves to protect the tenants.

You can make an argument about not restricting the free market, but shelter is such a basic human need that I think it merits a healthy amount of regulation.
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This could help to read faster, but as is, it does not. By leaving the last page visible, it makes the screen cluttered, and actually harder to read.

If, upon starting to scroll, the previous page were either whited-out entirely, or the contrast was greatly reduced, I think this would be much better.
>Once they have procrastinated on doing something for X months and know that it is only #73 on their internal priority list, they have essentially decided not to do it.

I think the point is that a decision is an affirmative act. Nobody decides to forget to do something. It's like the difference between incompetence and malice.
The degree is there to show that the candidate is qualified. One can't tell by mind-reading a candidate.

Unless the candidate was too poor to afford the school, or born in the 3rd world, or something like that, there's not much excuse for not having the piece of paper.

If you decide to hire the dropout, you are gambling on "this guy dropped out because he's the next John Carmack, not a loser". The odds are poor.

ADDENDUM: The degree acts as an arbitrary filter because you simply do not have the resources to exhaustively examine every candidate. you only take a closer look at the candidates that make it through the filter.
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I agree. I've been spending a handful of months learning Ruby (done, but I need to do a lot of small exercises in the language to get used to solving problems in it) and Rails. I've made a small application which I know could be made better (and which didn't have testing). I've since learned much more (comfortable with RSpec + Capybara, associations between models, etc.). And I'm taking the edX SaaS courses, which should help supplement all of this.

All that said, I'd love the opportunity to pair program in an environment like the one offered by epicodus.
Airbnb CEO responds to illegal rentals story: “It’s not illegal everywhere”
I guess if you are putting some service out there, you actually WANT people viewing your content/using the service. Way to antagonize your potential customers which such "my way or the highway" attitude!

And how do you feel about the 'Do not track' header?
That's probably 10s of thousands of eyes who don't know their arse from their elbow, including the guys who wrote it.

Possibly 2-3 people have read it who know their shit. The rest are just consumers.

Frameworks only centralise the security concerns - they don't necessarily make it better. That is in the hands of the implementor and their ability to build bullet proof abstractions. One fuck up and your system is globally compromised. It is the right solution, but you need the right people. Rails hasn't had the right people.
Interesting. Bash on my OS X box shows the command you're running, but doesn't give you a chance to cancel it. It looks like this:

$ rm -rf /root
rm: cannot remove `root': Permission denied
$ sudo !!
sudo rm -rf /root
# /root is now kaput
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Yes, the 13" can, other places say it can.
using System.Collections.Patented;
Yes. There is enough evidence of this that NYC created an entirely new beauracracy just to handle these issues. Numerous papers have published articles describing fraudulent or deceptive AirBnB listings, the guests' lack of resource, AirBnB's lack of assistance.
you can sign up to be notified of future classes: http://www.epicodus.com/future-classes.html
I simply don't understand applying a value added tax to digital goods. The marginal cost of production for digital goods is near zero. That means that the value added is near zero.
thanks for the support, austin!
>one of the most important pieces of code in the world

Well, that's certainly over the top. Safari is a commodity.
My point being that it isn't OOP specifically.
It's a downvote with no commentary. If you cannot understand why that might be frustrating or seemingly inappropriate, when I demonstrate no light taking on the topic, or when I espouse critical beliefs, then let's just move on.
I used to have something similar but then my document became hard to maintain and to keep it focused (short term goals vs long term goals). I switched to a slightly different approach, I use Evernote and I have 3 tags for notes, a "daily", "month" and "year". Which should be obvious, in "daily" I write down the things that I know I want to get done that day. In month I have higher level goals for that month, same with year. Helps a lot keep tracks in perspective and organize the "day to day" stuff along with the higher picture and longer term perspective.
Steller and galactic motion is much more important at that scale than cosmic expansion.
I was confused for a few seconds while reading this on my portrait monitor: it just shows the whole page at once.
Is this on the page itself? Or is it when using the bookmarklet?
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I had planned on it, but $2800 is barely doable, let alone $8000. Looks fantastic, though.
my mom has trouble using computers because of the scrolling. i imagine it's something in the same category as how i can't read anything in a moving vehicle without getting a ginormous headache, but other people don't have trouble with it :|
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Form Follows Function
If I do actually recommend friends to buy a Windows based PC it's usually a Lenovo. They're pretty rock solid. Good on them.
A decision is a decision whether it is made consciously or passively.
> 10km square tiles for 69p

The whole of the UK would cost £1700 at that price. Given that Bing has OS maps (which incidentally are very good) for free, I suspect the market for this will be limited.