skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I mean, it's sort of obvious. If a movie has a big enough pull for you to go drive to a theatre to watch it, the company that owns the movie realises you're willing to pay a direct rental fee for the movie off itunes or something. I'm going to wing it and say the studio might make 2-3 dollars on a single movie digital rental, but maybe 20-30 cents of your 8 dollars a month if they stuck it into a streaming service.

Do you really expect to get a pile of movies and TV you'd willingly pay, idk, 30-40$ a month for if bought individually in an 8$ streaming package? Netflix doesn't have big films because the people who own big films know that on the bottom line, their product has enough draw to be worth more when sold alone. And I mean, sure, a subscription model has more reliable cashflow sometimes, and maybe they can trade product worth for popularity and bulk sales and make more money, but who knows what might happen? Combined with the fact some of these studios have enough content to make their own web distribution services and remain in control of their web presence, and the worry that putting too much content on the web might kill the money they make from TV, it's just an iffy decision to shake up everything and put stuff on the streaming web until somebody comes around and makes a netflix people are willing to pay 20$ a month for - maybe even the 40-50$ you'd pay for a nice cable package, and can offer them some real royalties.
Why do you expect that capital held offshore for tax reasons is invested inefficiently? These companies are not (in general) in violation of the law, they're just exploiting transfer pricing[1] to accumulate capital in a foreign subsidiary in a low tax jurisdiction. That subsidiary can for the most part still invest it in whatever, including U.S. stocks and other securities. They can in many cases even loan it back to their domestic sister company so that it can use the money to grow its business (without paying tax on it, because it's a loan instead of income), which often provides even more tax benefits because the interest paid on the loan is often tax deductible in the higher tax jurisdiction.

There are some restrictions, e.g. the U.S. company may not be able to issue a dividend or do a stock buyback unless it reports at least some taxable profits within the U.S., but as long as the foreign subsidiary's capital account keeps growing, it causes the parent company's stock price to appreciate accordingly and that provides investors with their ROI.

There are ways that this can be less efficient. In particular, the parent company's investors may themselves have made more efficient investment choices than the company's executives investing the money on their behalf if their returns were provided in the form of dividends or stock buyback instead of stock price appreciation as the existing tax code strongly encourages. And this is actually very likely to be the case in practice, because e.g. Apple executives are now sitting on a huge mountain of cash that it likely will never be more cost effective to issue all of as dividends under the current tax code than continue to invest in situ, which means that computer company executives are now permanently in charge of picking stocks for however many hundred billion dollars worth of the world economy. That doesn't guarantee that those execs will make worse investment decisions (or will choose poorly in hiring someone to do it), but it seems at least plausible that someone hired primarily for their ability to sell iPhones or manage a global supply chain will be a worse hedge fund manager than an actual hedge fund manager. But this is just the capital gains tax debate all over again: As long as we tax even reinvested dividends immediately but allow unrealized stock appreciation to be tax deferred indefinitely we're going to spur that sort of crazy economic machinations.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transfer_pricing
Mono 3.0.3 released – includes a concurrent garbage collector
"Is it that I think I'm better than Dustin? That's a tougher one;"

A world class designer with a funded, successful blog network or an unemployed LARPer. Not sure it's as tough as you think.
all's fair in love and war right?
Exactly.

I was actually a music composition major before I switched to CS. I don't have anything against non-STEM fields. However, one day I looked at how much I was paying for school, how much I stood to earn, and what hard skills I would walk away with when everything was all said and done, and decided switching to my other love, CS, was a much better way to spend my time at uni.
Steve Ritchie

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Ritchie
After reading tptacek's comment, I'm curious:

Has this never happened before? Has there never been an exploit of this significance that has made it to Metasploit, and why not?
Let's translate it to C:

C99 is C.

C++0x is C++.

C++ is C.

Clang is C99.

Do all the lines seem correct?
You nailed it. Symfony == Poor man's Java. Which is ironic because even Java has started to move to move to something more sensible with frameworks like Grails or Play.
It sounds like its only affecting performance because the employer has chosen to make it affect performance. Look at all the comments from people saying if the boss doesn't fire the employee (perhaps because its not affecting performance) they'd quit because the boss has no backbone. Where's the job performance related justification for that?
Racist comments, comments about skin, color, weight as well as nationality amounts to bullying and these bullies are
nothing but psychos who need medical help. At home, I use a free app called Qustodio to monitor who my girl talks to on facebook as the app allows me to watch the profile pictures of accounts she interacts with. My way of ensuring that she stays safe. Just Google for it.
That's a shame. It was an interesting article about VCs not understanding consumers and backing startups that have no chance of succeeding. Nothing in it was exceptionally hard to understand, even for someone not engrossed in startup-culture like myself.
On a patched server I see a Hash::DisallowedType (Disallowed type attribute: "yaml") exception raised by activesupport.

As a simpler test-case, I modified the rails_rce.rb ( for CVE-2013-0156 )and passed a simpler yaml that creates a Time object:

yaml = %{
--- !ruby/object:Time {}
}
xml = %{
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<#{param} type="yaml">#{yaml}</#{param}>
}.strip

print_info "POSTing #{code} to #{url} ..."

response = http_request(
:method => :post,
:url => url,
:headers => {:content_type => 'text/xml'},
:body => xml
)

This way a vulnerable server's log file shows something like give below(ie. the Time object was actually created from the yaml):

Started POST "/users/sign_in" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-01-10 00:26:40 -0500
Processing by Devise::SessionsController#create as /
Parameters: {"secret"=>1969-12-31 19:00:00 -0500}

A patched server raises a Hash::DisallowedType (Disallowed type attribute: "yaml") exception.
Why was it not necessary? That’s a road to ruin. Nothing is obvious.
I don't know what statistic you're referring to, but there are an awful lot of (STEM) fields that have zero jobs if you don't have a degree.
Are you kidding? This wasn't sex with an ex. This was an affair while they were married that was the reason for ending the marriage. You can't see a difference?
I have this tendency with the spelling of the java class names because of expansion of the the camel case abbreviation by eclipse.
Reminds me of the early Kinect marketing videos before it was released. Skateboards being scanned in etc.

Great ideas, but I'll believe it when it ships.
I've always considered Prop 13 as a way for the babyboomers to screw over their own kids.
This is a very insightful article - BUT - you're paying way too much for health insurance.

Shoot me an email (contact info in profile) or check out http://www.simplyinsured.com - assuming you have 2-3 people on your team, we can save you thousands. I'm looking at quotes right now for fantastic insurance at around $150-$250/person.
And if you're in Lyons, CO (not far outside of Boulder) you must check out Lyons Classic Pinball. There are a ton of machines, plus the proprietor is super knowledgable.

http://www.lyonspinball.com
This is great - I've tried an (easier) offshoot of this idea a while back and it resulted in a lot of personal growth.

I tasked myself with taking a portrait of a stranger every day. It was terrifying to start with, walking up to complete strangers and asking to take a picture of them, and it took me 1-2h each day before finding the picture. By the time I wrapped up the project I took that down to 30 min, and didn't even break a sweat. My rejection rate also went way, way down, and I was able to get much better pictures than the "man, this is awwwwwkward" images from the beginning of the project.

The one thing to note though, is that (at least for me) the effects of this kind of "therapy" aren't permanent. Once you take away the regular stimulus of putting yourself out there, you fall back into your normal steady state.
The article is about this site:

http://www.entresting.com/blog/100-days-of-rejection-therapy...
Regardless of what the wife did, attraction is unconscious. The employee in this case is clearly the better man from evolutionary point of view instead of ethical point of view. At deeper level, he invested a lot in the employee, maybe...maybe too much (typical Mr. Nice Guy) that the employee is like the master and he the servant. Women are unconsciously attracted to men of power since the dawn of time. Also, it takes two to tango. The employee has a choice. This event can be prevented in many ways.
Should you ever find yourself in Portland Oregon, please visit 'Ground Kontrol'. An entire floor of nothing but pinball games, quite frequently at capacity.
But few real world app. is developed using racket compared with CL ?
Then why specifically renewable energy and not, say corn?
Yes, actually I have been a CloudFlare user for awhile but had paused it on my blog while dealing with a vulnerability. By the time traffic spiked and I turned it back on there was no way to reach the site to cache a copy. I also use the paid version for the Referly site and blog, and love it.
Wow, did a rasberry pi sleep with your mother or something?

And who says that embedded hardware must run off a battery? You're sure one to talk about stupidity.
Yes, many many times. It's just new to startupland.
Skype account won't get deleted - you can unlink them:
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run this for rails 2.x

curl -i -H "Content-Type: application/xml" -X POST -d '<id type="yaml">--- !ruby/object:ActionController::Base bar: 1</id>' http://localhost:3000

If in your logs the params[:id] is an object, then you are vulnerable. If it's just a string, then your fix worked.

I put mine in an intializers file.

ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Hash::Conversions::XML_PARSING.delete('symbol')
ActiveSupport::CoreExtensions::Hash::Conversions::XML_PARSING.delete('yaml')
Interestingly thr same issue could be sqid to applytot photography... Or social media!
Russell's paradox is not contradictory but undecidable
I find the guy to whom you're replying to be obnoxious, but he's not wrong about it being poor for CLI stuff. Loads of stuff non-obviously behaves differently in a web context versus a CLI context (and while it's documented, you still have to know about it). It doesn't have good stream processing facilities. It, as mentioned, requires a php.ini and requires you to think about that when you're writing scripts in it.

It can be done. It is not something I would recommend under almost any circumstances. (But, then, I wouldn't recommend Ruby for any-any circumstances, so...)
Which is not common outside of the US.
Yes, please. I maintain a Rails 2.3 app. What do I need to do?

Edit: fixed using above info from vinhboy. thanks heaps :)
Yahoo mail enables encryption, battles security flaw
That is unfortunate, but I never said you should use debit instead. Though if I remember correctly the study suggest that debit spends more than cash, but less than credit.

FWIW I use a debit card most of the time because it is much more convenient than cash with the knowledge that I am spending more than I otherwise would.
Yikes! I didn't mean to insult all the theater people. However... I don't think you can really compare the overall job prospects of a STEM based major to those of a Theater major.

Yes, some people make a lot of money doing Broadway, but on the whole, I'd wager that the bulk of "actors" live on "getting by" wages. How many steady $60k+ gigs are out there for the taking?

All that said, I may be the victim of sample bias. Though I was never a thespian, my core group of friends growing up consisted mostly of theater people in high school, and then onto college, I still hung out with many thespians, and now, the bulk of them are.. waiters/"actors." There are a couple that are working near constantly, but for very little money; Maybe a couple of hundred dollars for two weeks of shows.
look I like lisp as much as the next guy, but you can "spend two hours" reading java code, write a unit test; eval said test and then woohoo! You can do that in basically any modern language.

And your first example is something that most modern languages are sold on. The truthiness of those statements can be debated, but your examples are flawed to say the least.

Point is: you can generalize and write unit tests in any language.
It's Windows 8 that does it. Windows 7 and earlier require Windows Essentials to be installed.
Thats a smart way of implementing a parallel coordinates chart. I like the selection.
"schools cannot force students to wear arbitrary things"

But schools can.
I would rather fix leaky pipes than fight a landlord trying to get him to do it. I much prefer living in a house that I own.
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The problem is that this was brought up as a religious objection, not a freedom or privacy-based one.
She's refused to wear non-RFID based badges.
Microsoft’s use of discriminatory contracts to stop GNU/Linux at OEM level
Metasploit releases significant exploits pretty frequently. HD (the author of the blog post) is featured for one of his more interesting exploits in this NYTimes article from last year: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/23/technology/flaws-in-videoc...
$8 for Netflix streaming, $8 for Hulu.
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I'm unable to reproduce- not sure why. Seeing no parameters. I'm getting:

Started POST "/user/sign_in" for 127.0.0.1 at 2013-01-09 21:40:56 -0800
Processing by UsersController#sign_in as */*

If I comment out the patch, I see:

Parameters: {"secret"=>1969-12-31 16:00:00 -0800}

So I suspect others may not see the same exception... I'm using ActiveSupport 3.0.3, fyi.
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FWIW, I and many of my friends (who admittedly deal primarily with hardware) find the gpio a big draw. The machine is cheaper and more useful than an arduino after you've thrown in an ethernet shield. I got one to serve as a doorbell router.
The folks you know wouldn't happen to be over 35 or independently wealthy, would they? Tuitions have gone up tremendously in recent years, and following your bliss like it was 1998 would be a disaster now if you didn't have a good job lined up at the end, or at least a trust fund.
This post is so dead on... love it.
Humanizing The Classroom By a Factor of 5 or 10 (2011)
The opposite, actually. PHP's shared-nothing architecture makes scaling a breeze. Just add more hardware.
Very nice. Was this of your own initiative or was it the department?
You are onto something here.

Let me explain you what the problem is. The concept of work is relatively modern compared to the entire human history. Organized work is something that was needed to scale organized living, and growth of human population. Without agriculture, architecture, transport, communication and health care human kind wouldn't have made it till now. Hunter gatherers had it a little easy, each man for his own or at the max his offspring. But this was not scalable, then extremely unpredictable. To scale we had to get down to staying at one place for long periods of time[read: civilization], and then produce food in bulk quantities[Read: Agriculture/farming]. But no man would work for others, so then came in the concept of doing other kind of work. Like building homes, pottery, carts etc and then people would trade one for the other.

This was still OK, until the kingdoms and kings came along. And then automatically came the concept of slavery, then soldiers who are supposed to die for king. Misery was the norm in this era. A lot of people were stuck building large monuments and cities for kings. Its during this period the notion 'born into richness' and 'born into poverty' evolved and to a very large extent continues till today.

If you are born to some one poor, the world assumes you now have absolutely no 'right' to be rich. And if you do get rich by your work, the rick kids/people think of it as unfair to them. And now matter how lazy, unproductive some rich guy is he considers it unfair to him that he must become poor out of his own actions.
Good thinking. Might also be good to prune some auth tokens and app specific passwords for your Google accounts, too.
https://accounts.google.com/IssuedAuthSubTokens
Are the sort of people writing straight PHP the sort of people who would be using rails? Try a PHP framework like Laravel and then compare that to Rails.
Some colleges do let students live off campus. Mine did.
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What if the boss had said, "I just found out a favorite employee is gay. Now every time I see him, I'm terribly upset because I know he's going to burn in hell. I feel so betrayed that someone I trusted is so immoral. Should I fire him?"
I don't know if this makes you a hater, or someone who just can't appreciate great design, or something else.
Goddamn, created an account to reply to this. Can't believe how stupidly judgemental and absolute you're being. There is absolutely nothing wrong with taking your time, thinking about this rationally and approaching it with a cool head. It's complicated, it's way more complicated than just "FIRE HIM." Your comment is ridiculous. Slow your roll. Don't just run around saying people need therapy.
For people applying the security patches, please beware that Rails 3.2.11 has broken some things (I've been having issues related to bad JSON parsing).

Fortunately, the community is stepping up with patches[1]. Hopefully, these patches are not adding further vulnerabilities.

[1] https://github.com/rails/rails/pull/8855
Don't forget Lithium. Also a great vision.
Thank you, very helpful.

EDIT AGAIN: I think putting it at the end of environment.rb works. I somehow messed it up and got confused, but then I tried it again and it worked. Just make sure you confirm your fix with the curl command!
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Conceptually I agree, but having spent the last <way too long> being fed by ZeroCater, there's a lot of stuff that falls through the cracks when humans are involved - and when you are dealing with your customers every single day that tends to get noticed.
Really? A picture of a kid with Down's Syndrome wearing a Superman outfit?
There are two separate issues here, adultery as a crime and adultery as a breach of contract. I'll talk about US laws, since they're the ones I'm most familiar with.

Adultery as a crime is still surprisingly common, but going away fast. Prosecutions for it in Western countries are extremely rare, and the laws making it illegal in 23 US states are just waiting to be challenged and overthrown. Most people seem to think that it's not the government's business to decide that all husbands and wives must remain faithful or be fined/jailed.

Adultery as a breach of contract is a little trickier, because a marriage contract is a special kind of contract that covers things that normal contracts can't. You can't sue someone for breaching their marriage vows, but you can divorce them. In the past, you needed grounds (such as adultery) to do so, but no-fault divorces are available now in every US state and several other Western countries. Whether adultery is factored into decisions about alimony depends on the jurisdiction - some do, some don't. It's a tricky issue, and relationships (particularly rocky ones) tend to be more complex than rigid rules can allow for.

On a more general point, I think that you'd have a hard time convincing a judge that lifetime sexual exclusivity is something you can sign away in any normal legal contract. Marriage gets special treatment to allow for things like that, but the trade-off is that we expect married couples to try to deal with their own issues rather than getting the courts involved immediately.
Capitalism has an unnerving tendency to force people to work in the jobs that "no one wants to do" or that everyone needs, and aren't viewed as jobs that deserve high incomes. For instance, the US went to war partially because its citizens were being impressed into a foreign navy for essentially no pay. Young people were forced to become soldiers via the draft. Entire racial groups were forced to do manual labor that was "beneath" freemen. My guess is that, unless healthcare workers are able to demand higher wages in some way, that we'll "find" a cheap labor supply, be they foreign workers or "recruited" young workers. Or, for much the same reasons that teachers are underpaid compared to their skills and education level, society as a whole will refuse to raise healthcare wages once those jobs become a cornerstone of our society.
There is a specific segment of the enginerd crowd which, in reaction to the realization that they've been passive victims in their own lives, throw the lever all the way to the other side. They become wannabe "alpha males" who reactively criticize any sign of male weakness in others (but not in person, only online) That is, when they're not riding their racing motorcycles in their full body gear, or doing squats. Psych! I mean deadlifts!

What these tough guys don't realize is something which Margret Thatcher best put to words: being powerful is like being a lady; if you have to tell [or show] others you are, you aren't. (paraphrased, from memory)
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This is probably a contentious topic, but housing security is a useful thing. Owning a residence, and perhaps more saliently owning it without debt, provides a certain level of housing security that is quite precious when you are older. The other benefit of owning property is that you can use it to generate income when you're not using it. While being a landlord is a pain, if you're willing to give up some of the return you can negotiate that out to a third party and that provides a bit of income security.

Sometimes having one less thing to worry about can be the difference between taking a risk that changes your life in a positive way and not taking it.

The bottom line for me is that I've never heard anyone say "I wish I had more things to worry about."
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