skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Rapid7 strongly recommends disabling UPnP on all external-facing systems," reads a little differently than "disable UPnP now"

Don't expose services to the internet that you're not willing to make public. Duh? What I got from this article is that some devices that people connect to the internet are configured poorly, probably came out of the box like that, and that maybe I should go double check that my router isn't misbehaving. Note that they have lists of vulnerable devices at the end of the paper, which I'll link here.

libupnp: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dFd...

miniupnp: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dDh...

soapapi: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0ApUaRDtAei07dGx...

The discussion of libupnp is kind of terrifying on its own: "There are no less than seven unique buffer overflows in version 1.3.1 of this code." Which sounds pretty bad until you notice that by "this code" they're referring to a single function.

The paper itself is much better than the Ars article, by the way.
My complaint isn't aimed only at Microsoft for doing this, although this is the worst example I've seen. My complaint is that products are being marketed and sold using a false metric: hard drive space. iPads are sold this way, Android phones are sold this way, and yes, "real windows computers" are sold this way. The fact that you think it's important we're talking about a "real windows computer" in this case only reinforces my point that you're suffering the bias of someone who is well versed in technology.

Trying to persuade consumers with the capacity of the disk drive is meaningless, but to consumers it doesn't seem meaningless. Otherwise, why would they put it in such big print on the box?

Ultimately this only hurts Microsoft (and anyone else who does this) since it worsens some customer's experiences by giving them false expectations. It won't affect all customers and especially not the tech savvy here who are calling the layman stupid for not knowing the difference between "actual formatted capacity" and the number on the package, but real people none the less.
> "Rapid7 strongly recommends disabling UPnP on all external-facing systems," reads a little differently than "disable UPnP now"

Ars Technica has been on a lowest-common-denominator kick as of late. Titles like this get more pageviews.
First I'll point out that I'm open-minded and I'll try ST seen that so many people say good things about it.

However I'm not sure that's one of the biggest issue from people coming from a vim/emacs background.

I'm using Emacs because there is more than one million line of elisp code in Emacs and all its mode and there's no way anything is going to offer anywhere near close what Emacs has to offer.

Just an example: you can search and replace on a regexp and use friggin' Lisp substitution in the replacement. Say I've got this:

foo = 1
bar = 2
... = . // 96 more lines come here
baz = 99

I'm not saying it would be good style or anything to have "code" like that, but if I want to replace it with

foo = 5
bar = 10
... = . // 96 more lines come here
baz = 495

Well.. This is trivial under Emacs. And it's not trivial because that particular use case has been thought of previously: it's trivial because search and replace can use Lisp substitution, which is wild.

There are too many to names but I'm regularly using, under Emacs: real-time validation of XML files using Relax NG, ace-jump-mode, paredit (sweeter than sweet), magit, org-mode, etc.

But, most importantly, instead of having to adapt myself to the "text editor", I can adapt the text editor to myself.

Is ST3 as extensible as Emacs?

How complicated would it be to, say, implement the equivalent of vim's easymotion / emacs' ace-jump-mode to ST3? I'm not asking if someone did it: I'm asking how "complicated" it is for one to be able to adapt his too the way he needs.

I'll try ST, to see what the fuss is about...
In a couple of years this will be unimportant as SSD drives grow in size (and not in price). We've seen this over and over with every new storage media.

Microsoft might want to do some trimming there but I wouldn't spent all my time on that.
So true. I love Micah.

I think so many of us forget what truly matters in life. Our families, our friends, our experiences and memories with them, and - (just now, my little guy called me upstairs to give him one last hug before bed) - all of that good stuff.

At the end of the day, are we going to care about the companies we create, or the times we've had with those we love?
that's why he also published it on BI?
http://www.businessinsider.com/jody-sherman-the-founder-and-...
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The general rule is $1mm / engineer, as I've heard colloquially.
Call it a chop. The founders will stay as long as they need to vest and move on to something else bigger and better. An exit is still an exit and that's enough cachet to get funding for another project.

What's more interesting to me is whether Yelp wanted in on the action. As they move towards more discretionary data and including menu information while letting people review individual menu items this would have been a no brainer for $10MM.

That's the real buried lede. Something's up, either Yelp fumbled or Foodspotting as a concept and database just wasn't valuable at all.

But "tech journalism" being "tech journalism" we just get reblogged PR puffs. The gossipy comments were more interesting than the article itself.
To get a gaming licence for an online gambling game in the UK, you need to provide a mechanism to allow players to block themselves from playing.

It's not hard to make that kind of requirement, if it were the real reason online gambling is restricted.
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That's true! http://blog.lightjs.org/2013/01/svg-canvas-divs/

Chrome is 62% faster than Firefox, Safari 85% and IE10 67%
I wasn't making a truth-claim, I was clarifying Justin's truth-claim ....

Fair enough.

Obviously MIT and Yale and CMU all select from the very best students, so their graduates are correspondingly better than average as well. The question is whether they are more-better after attending prestigious schools.

Sure.

[The] null hypothesis (or the dominant prior if you're bayesian) should be that schools provide equivalent educations unless you have some reason to believe that's not the case.

See, this is where the argument gets pretty flimsy. The prior should take into account the data we have on hand and practically all of it points in the opposite direction. Some data we have includes:

* professors (in many cases, learning techniques from those who invented them)

* quality of students you're interacting with

* laboratory resources available

* the "wisdom of the crowds" about the schools in question

Sorry, but the burden of proof is yours (or Justin's) — practically ipso facto — given that this is a contrarian claim.

From a pure common sense perspective, we should be surprised if there is literally no difference between the CS education at MIT and, say, UC Irvine, just as we should be surprised if there is literally no difference between the dining experience at a restaurant with multiple Michelin Stars and that at one without.
This is actually common in many cultures. In South-East Asia I have heard this many times, that people have/had this belief that taking pictures of them "steal their souls". You can see it mentioned in a movie from Wong Kar Wai, Chungking Express, if I remember correctly, when the protagonist talks about his father.
this is cool, just wondering is there an easy way to export the text ? save as and then renaming to .txt doesnt seem to grab the text, just the html.
I am trying to paste this beautiful letter to Augusta http://jpfuentes2.tumblr.com/post/39935683274/a-letter-to-my..., anticipating the most beautiful ever wallpaper in code, but it is still magic in progress after 5 minutes of wait though.
You are correct.

If Pfizer conducted clinical trials and got Viagra approved for a new indication, they could extend their exclusivity two different ways: either through a use patent or through market exclusivity as provide by the FDA.

However, if their patent is around the use of the drug, i.e. erectile dysfunction and that patent runs out, another company could make a generic. That company would not be able to promote the drug for the new indication, but doctors would know the two were the same and could prescribe the generic.
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I worked next to the guys from Smarkets (https://smarkets.com) for a while. It looks like they're focussing heavily on sports betting now, but they'll do politics or media things when there's interest.
Looks fantastic, might try and think of a use for it at work and give it a whirl. I remember being very impressed when reading the 'teardown' articles about how Apple had achieved it, the gap between a GIF and a <video> tag has always had potential, imho...
Instead of just saying "degree" it might be more sensible to white-list certain universities alone based on their reputation. These names can be published every year.
literally on the first line. XD
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I believe that Zikes is merely making a racist comment about the make-up of teams at Microsoft.
https://community.rapid7.com/community/infosec/blog/2013/01/...
As an aside, if anyone is interested in the Upverter story, TechZing did a great interview of one of the founders last week:

http://techzinglive.com/page/1269/223-tz-interview-zak-homou...

Well worth the listen.
Which just made me realize. Maybe this would actually be a great Ubuntu machine. It could be better than with Windows!
I think the alternative being proposed though (no brand name but lots of drive) assumes lots of coding experience outside of the classroom.
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Actually, I think the idea of "published" on the web means it is for an audience.

I can only speak for myself, but I put a lot of stuff up there which is simply like talking or painting or jamming at an open window to me: anyone is free to stop by and watch and/or comment, but I always feel free to be as personal, or incomprehensible, or random as I want to be. I don't get paid to provide a certain service in my personal space, I don't even have to explain myself to anyone; so you know what, I don't. And if someone else posted it to another site, that's something else entirely.
Yeah, but so is EVE and other games like it. I have never played EVE for any significant amount of time, but I did play WoW for awhile and there were tons of things that people would sink time into for purely social reasons. I imagine EVE is the same way. You don't just want a Titan because it is useful in the game, you want a Titan so you can have a Titan.
We launched pressureNET 3.0 today, which enables our livestream to Dr. Cliff Mass at the University of Washington. I'm currently working on the API to let others query the live data as well. The project is open source and we're working hard to improve weather prediction by improving data inputs to models. Here's our 3.0 announcement blog post:

http://www.cumulonimbus.ca/pressurenet-3-0-sharing-visualiza...
But is that a problem from using those chemicals at all, or a problem from having too much in the system?
Andrew Gelman's favorite plot
if you want something more like this,
chrome notepad [1] seems like a good app that lets you sync notes across multiple devices using google account sync

1]https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-notepad/ffb...
Sites Down - I'm upset I was trying to show this around.
The point I was making is, and the reason I dislike SCT, is that there is a very strong and relatively stable genetically-determined set of aesthetic preferences found in all cultures. There are no cultures where diseased and ulcerated skin on the face is considered sexy. "But of course" you might say - but that's the point, we take the real commonalities for granted.

And then, yes, on top of those there is a whole conflicting mess of different desirable appearances which depend upon the period, culture, and person, driven by all the complexities of interacting human beings. But those factors can be boiled down to some fairly simple drives which have all emerged for one reason: to maximise reproductive success.

Which is all what you would expect from the result of selection pressures acting across tens of thousands of successful generations of descendants of ancient DNA-replicating machines.

Another way to say this is that it is in our nature to be highly responsive to environmental conditions, i.e. nurture. Nature builds the platform and tools needed for nurture to occur - but just because we are plastic in the face of nurture does not mean nurture negates or transcends the principles of nature (at least not so far, I believe.) If individuals had arisen in which this was so, they would have been selected against. You should read The Language Instinct, Steven Pinker makes this point about people who try and argue that the brain is effectively infinitely plastic and comes with no built-in "software" for processing and generating language.

(PS The main complication in trying to read human behaviour for evolutionary logic is that selection principles do not act upon individuals solely, because humans are all integrated into often multiple kin and common-identity networks of greater or lesser complexity. Evolutionary logic resolves at the level of these more-complicated networks.)

(PPS I believe that the head size-hip ratio theory is erroneous. Read http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/08/timing-of-c...)
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While I have enormous respect for Elon Musk, I would hope that Boeing engineers have just as thorough an understanding of the workings and safety implications of Lithium-ion batteries. Though Tesla's engineering is admittedly much more focused around battery technology, Boeing has decades of experience with aircraft electrical systems.
No, that's why it has a more explanatory, as opposed to personal, title on BI.
Yes it is! This is kind of nerdy, but I have a picture of Frege hanging on my wall for inspiration. :)

Is Saint-Loup a reference to Proust's friend?
Academy schools are non profits. They are not private schools in the normal sense and there are no tuition fees charged.

They are basically an experiment to run a school with less dictates from local government so do not have to follow as many rules.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_(English_school)
I'm convinced that Apple wants you to think that SSD prices are still where they were in 2010-2011, both to sell you the "Fusion Drive" baloney and to make it seem like paying $900 for an UPGRADE to a 512GB SSD[1] is in any way reasonable.

[1] http://store.apple.com/us/configure/MD104LL/A?
Please take note, engineers: this is how a smart sales guy answers a pricing objection.
Plan A: Find someone you love and who loves you, too.
Plan B: Find someone who loves you, and love them.
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Sorry to hear about the response. Hopefully I didn't come off as being negative. I thought maybe I was learning something as well. Different people have different experiences. I myself don't know much about Canada except that it appears to be a beautiful place I want to visit some day.
> Why and/or how are sine waves relevant to non-geometric data?

The universe likes sine waves. If you hang a weight from a spring and give it a yank, it will bob up and down according to a sine wave. Lots of resonating and oscillating things are also governed by sine waves. So scientists and engineers are forced by circumstance to learn all about sine waves.
This is a very smart move by Musk from a PR point of view. By accusing Boeing's batteries of being fundamentally unsafe, he garners the maximum amount of trust from people who are concerned about battery safety, so that, when he immediately follows up with an explanation of why this couldn't happen on a Tesla, those very people are already leaning towards believing him. This goes over much better than attempting to defend the safety of high-density batteries in general.
Jon Skinner implemented a similar technique to create and display screencast animations on the Sublime Text homepage. I was just reading his article[1] last night in which he discussed his technique.

It's similar to this implementation, and his source is available on Github[2] (written in Python).

[1] http://www.sublimetext.com/~jps/animated_gifs_the_hard_way.h...

[2] http://github.com/sublimehq/anim_encoder
If you mix FP and OO you'll often end up with terrible FP which simply reproduces the "old" approach: lots of mutable stuff everywhere. Many Clojure toy games are like that: they start with a lot of "variables" in mutable refs.

But it doesn't need to be that bad: you can create a game that is fully deterministic. A game which is purely a function of its inputs. And it can of course be applied to more than games.

The problem is that it feels "weird" to non-FP people.

The state monad is definitely what you're looking for. If you use a state monad approx. 95% of what you just wrote is utter rubbish.

But the state monad (and the maybe monad) sadly aren't that trivial to understand.
I think he probably saw it as a defensive move: He doesn't want li-ion technology to get a bad name, and that doesn't mean only explaining why Tesla's approach is safe, but also trying to help others avoid mistakes that could hurt the whole industry including his company.
How many views does a top HN post really get you?
It would appear that Boeing had a small oversight. Building a plane is not like building a car. There are different requirements. While some requirements overlap there are clear fundamental differences.

Now, with that said, it could be that SpaceX and Tesla were allowed to focus more on batteries while Boeing had to improve jet engine efficiency as well as electrical battery usage.
If the smart audience weren't so hell-bent on using Adblock, maybe Ars wouldn't have to go after the dumb one for page views.
I'm sure Airbus engineers are also great with wing design, yet they recently had problems with the A380 wings because it was something new with which they didn't have as much experience. The same could be said about these advanced lithium-ion batteries, I believe.
Congrats guys! Can't wait to get some facetime with the app soon.
> This is a very smart move by Musk from a PR point of view.

This is an awful PR move if he's wrong. I hope he's sure.
yeah, sometimes we forget that there are roles and expectations forced on men, too. Women are subconsciously expected to be thin and pretty thanks to images shown by the media. Men, on the other hand, are basically expected to be Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. Mild success is not enough, we are expected to be billionaire success stories, and anything short of that is not acceptable.
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no doubt Boeing know that even if the batteries smoke and fail they wont be a threat to safety, but Musk has a better handle on marketing. If there is smoke on a plane or car people expect the worst, regardless of if it is actually a safety issue.
It can be if those photos get you to make a reservation at one of the restaurants in OpenTable's network.

Chances are you won't knowingly spam your friends to tell them to use OpenTable. Maybe you had a great experience with it and you post it once on Facebook. You're not going to continue posting how amazing your experience with OpenTable was. You MIGHT think some/most/all of the dishes you eat at restaurants are amazing. You MIGHT post those dishes on Facebook. If those dishes are tied to restaurants that OpenTable serves, they just landed on an amazing advertising model.
Question: Why did you choose a single thread comment system over nested comments?
Elon seems to really want to get involved in this. Make no mistake, Boeing and SpaceX are fierce competitors for government contracts with very dubious selection processes.

I'm saying this because he is a businessman, not an engineer. He seems to be getting a lot of information about the 787s batteries inner workings when the number of airplanes and suppliers are very limited.

Edit: I'm not trying to be cynical, but I do think that if Elon really wanted to help he should contact Boeing and do it instead of playing politics.
Goodluck guys! Read The Alchemist before you go.
A competitors look at Amazon Elastic Transcoder
Part of the reason it is so slow is that (as mentioned in the article) the server slows time down (as far as 10% of normal) in order to ensure that nothing gets lost.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but I'm probably not the only one wondering that: how do you capture the video from the iPhone screen in the first place? [Edit: oh, just realized you're probably just using the simulator?]

Otherwise, awesome app. I can definitely see myself using this to add short videos to my designs.
an MIT professor already backs up what he is saying, he is not on his own with his opinion
You know what's the most amazing about this? The amount of community collaboration its driven. I saw this post when it was on the "new" page and had no comments. Coming back a couple hours later, I can see tons of people doing some tinkering on their own and sharing their finds back here.

I dunno, just something I noticed which I think is completely awesome and indicative of the benefits of open-source and open-knowledge.
For that demo, we used the iOS simulator app that's part of Xcode, along with normal screencapture tools (Screenflow in this case). I think that's the way most iOS devs do screencast content, though jailbroken devices can also do native screencapture.
Forbes is running an article [1], suggesting it is in Boeing/SpaceX/Tesla's goint best interested to prove/make safe lithium ion batteries. Reason being, they all have products that use them, and they should have a great reputation, and there should be zero stigma attached to them.

[1] http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidewalt/2013/01/29/why-elon-m...
I have enormous respect for Elon Musk, and he's right, large cells without thermal barriers between cells are dangerous.

Boeing doesn't have a "decade of experience" with Lithium-Ion batteries though. The particular type of batteries have an elevated risk profile, but are light weight. The 787 has a larger APU than previous aircraft, and requires a larger battery to start the APU.

These particular batteries are Lithium Cobalt Oxide. One of the sub-contractors, Securaplane, who made the battery controller/charger, had their factory destroyed by fire, after a battery malfunction in 2006.

Edit: Cessna had problems with their Lithium-Ion batteries in some Citations, and had to replace them with NiCADs in a emergency airworthiness directive.
If you don't have insurance on your Titan, you shouldn't have a Titan.
Made it a chrome extension for an easier install.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/textpad/edopaieiod...
we tried to use pivotal tracker for the same thing
One of the biggest problems in the US right now is employment and job creation. If we can create a system by which people work for each other incrementally more because of a new hiring interface, then maybe we are doing some part to address that. Perhaps not as sexy as creating Facebook, but our customers are growing in number, like the service, and you can extrapolate how this might be used by a broader audience outside of Silicon Valley.

Regarding listing one of our Exec's degrees: credentialing clearly matters to people outside the company (customers), and there's little we can do to immediately change that. When we talk about credentialing not mattering for hiring, it's for core team employees (people who build the product), for which there are generally other metrics we can evaluate on.
while not a PE he is no slouch, he has a bachelor's in physics