skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There is the potential for false positives, but I'd be happy to chat about it - feel free to get in touch either via email at support@tinfoilsecurity.com or in our support chat: http://www.tinfoilsecurity.com/chat

ITYM 3.2.11? 3.2.1 is definitely vulnerable... We had a typo in ours that said 3.2.1 was safe - so sorry about that! Fixing that now. You should upgrade to 3.2.11.
It could also be that he only writes stuff he views is a fit for hacker news.
I truly don't mean to be snarky but I don't think taking the time to write up a post, even about something you care deeply about, is sufficient justification on its own for HN to care about a topic.

That is, if the topic is important and valuable to HN it will be valuable even if you didn't necessarily care so much about the topic.
If you are occupying the position of privilege, you have a duty to go read about why this is sexist

According to what? The Social Justice Handbook?
king_jester please stop lecturing us on how to behave. You are not our proctor. You clearly subscribe to a post-structuralist/Marxist belief system and thankfully most of us do not. What you are doing is equivalent
to a Evangelical Christian going into an Atheist discussion forum and
telling them all they must consult the Bible to find out why they're
behaving incorrectly.
What I'm interested in is how much of this success comes from consuming long term investments of the past like infrastructure.
Do you see nude, painted models at a trade event as being inherently dehumanizing? Because that would be a separate issue from what's being discussed here.

The problem -- at least as it seems to me -- is not that there were nude, painted people hired for the event, but that there were only nude, painted women hired for the event for no apparent reason other than their presumed sex appeal to the predominantly male attendees.

That's where the objectification argument comes in, at least in my eyes. Like I said from the start, I don't have an inherent issue with using nude, painted models for a display.
It's always a bit amusing hearing outsiders refer to Scandinavia as 'socialist'. This is very far from the truth.

In Norway, the Labour party has been in power for much of the last hundred years, seems reasonable that it would be quite the socialist haven. In reality, in the last fifty years, anyone rising to power in the Labour party has had to be pre-approved by the CIA (well documented in e.g. self biographies of the people involved).

As it turns out, unsurprisingly, this has not been very conducive to any form of socialism.
It's more like "How to recover and redeploy WebApp X after total server/data loss when you are not a programmer or sysadmin." There are a defined set of things that need to be done or could go wrong.
>But context menu is a useful concept (sometimes).

Of course. Which is why you would use it only where it is useful, not just hijacking a particular input event globally.

>Thus web apps effectively lose one whole mouse button, thus reducing available input bandwidth.

No, you can use right click all you want, and it need not interfere with the browser's use of right click. Also, very few people use a mouse on their phone, so this does seem like a bit of a stretch.

>Another example of lost input is lack of system-global shortcuts. A web app in my knowledge can't have them.

Right. There are a few other things like this that web apps can't do. And apps that people would want this sort of interface for should not be web apps. But as I said originally, virtually all the apps people use are not of that nature (and those that are almost always are apps that came with the phone), they are just websites turned into clunky, awkward apps for no reason.

>except to get to web-app, you need to go through the browser first

The browser is the app.
Thanks Juca! Hope things are well!
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Books written in the second person. Examples besides 'La Litomiŝla tombejo'? http://esperanto.net/literaturo/roman/libr/litomislarec.html
This seems like a good advice to me if you're hiring a bd guy. Any extra advice if you (a hacker) are partnering with a bd guy?

The only thing I can contribute is to look if the would-be partner has any friends from previous engagements joining the new venture. If so, it establishes that your prospect is not a pathological liar (no one would stick around with that sort of person). It's important because a compelling bd story could be a great business opportunity, or complete bullshit, and a hacker type is normally unable to tell them apart.

It's not much, admittedly, but maybe this will get the conversation rolling?
Rails 3.2.1 or Rails 3.2.11. It has to be Rails 3.2.11 to get the patch
In one of the lectures of Econ101 at Yale Robert Schiller brings up a very interesting thought experiment: imagine everyone about to be born having a pre-birth meeting. What sort of system would they agree upon if they had to decide without knowing what their lot in life would be?

I am norwegian and I feel like this kind of reasoning about 'fairness' has shaped a lot of our public policy. Everyone should be able to be find happiness in life, even if they are unfortunate with their rolls during character creation.

Another issue, which I personally find very important, is that of moral hazard. There are greedy and/or ambitious people out there willing to step over bodies to improve their own situation This is one of the reasons I feel a state run health care system is so important.

We are in a sense erring on the side of caution with most of our government policies, and the price we pay is some waste. There are people who exploit the welfare state for their own gain. I will, however, happily pay for some waste if we never get in a situation where someone needing help is denied because someone else is out to make a buck.

What the article talks about, in my eyes, is mostly the nordic countries trying to eliminate waste--moving toward a smaller government while still keeping the quintessential intact.

Another thing worth mentioning, which is also able to explain part of the government downsizing, is that we--as everyone else--are facing serious challenges because the baby boomers are about to retire, and in general the ratio of retired to working people is expected to shift quite a bit over the next 50 years. The promises goverment can--and should--make necessarily has to change when its expenses are expected to go up while revenues stay the same.
I'm with you man. That's how I feel. SV is good ... if you want to live in SV. Not because you want to go there for a job, not when jobs need you more than you need the jobs.
I really hope that the term "Infauxgraphics" gets some more traction.
OT: anyone else on a mobile device notice how this site's mobile site feels/looks nice? Almost feels like a native app

http://i.imgur.com/zJ7YsY1.jpg
The confusion between 'break' and 'brake' was especially unfortunate here. I was never sure whether an action was going to cause a wheel to fall off or to slow the plane down.
Sounds good - I'll see you there!
Not quite, this is probably as close as you're going to get:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYi2NrEAxrs

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Is it really an excuse though? Some designers can be good at both sides, sure, but my experience is that many designers simply cannot. Their mind blanks at the most basic programming concepts, and the level of abstraction needed for practical HTML and CSS is just too much. Believe me, I've tried.

This works both ways too. I've met many developers who seem absolutely incapable of producing good designs. Even if I can convince them that design is important, and teach them basic design principles, their lack of innate caring about this is a big stumbling block.

Technically, one could argue that anything that has rules applied to it is learnable, but practically that's just not true. Some people just have no sense of rhythm or tone, for example, and regardless of how much music theory you teach them, they can't produce good music.

Now, on a more psychological note. I've found that most really good designers I meet are a certain type of person, far removed from the really good programmers I meet. I can't recall the last time I met this rare person who is really good at both, although I'm sure they exist.

Using myself as an example: I'm for the most part a geek who started programming early in life, but intentionally switched to study psychology/communications and engage in more social/presentational activities, and finally move back to 'lite-programming' as a web developer. I am acutely aware of the fact that for great design I need help, and for great programming I need help too. Despite the fact that I'm an intelligent, talented individual, I simply cannot commit to one without creating a deficiency in the other. Hell, I might not even be capable enough for it. I sometimes feel I'm too messy, gung-ho, and fidgety for serious programming, but too rule-based and logical-minded for the type of creativity that leads to great designs.

I'm content with that, but I suspect most people either fit in my camp, in the camp of great designers, or the camp of great programmers. It's simply unrealistic to use those few who excel at both as a yardstick of any kind.

(apologies for this rant, it's perhaps more appropriate in the thread as a whole than as a specific reply to you...)
"There's also no incentive to provide useful feedback from the student's perspective."

Some departments of the university I'm studying at got around this problem by bribing the students with printing credits after filling out the lecture feedback surveys. Other more general surveys on the campus entered all respondents into a prize draw for vouchers or cash.

Sadly my department did nothing like that and as such our response rates are as abysmal as your experience describes.
My comment, with >36 votes, was flagged to oblivion. What a bunch of puritanical, cactus-haters you are, Hacker News.
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Spin awareness is definitely weird at first, and I wholeheartedly agree that it's less scary after a bit of experience. Question: did you cover spin recovery? I was under the impression this was basically never done until CFI or CFII.
It's not that hard when you look up the answers in the back of the book.
Time spent in the car/traffic is life lost, something you will never get back again.

A 1 hour commute one-way is about 20 hours a week. That's a part-time job for some people. Commuting is simply not that interesting of an activity.
To avoid the needlessly vague allusions to schools going on in this thread: I went to Princeton University for undergrad.

I'm sure Bill Gates has a more nuanced view on college ratings than this article suggests. Welcome to media.

We all know why the college rankings are the way they are. Frankly, no one cares who the "most improved" olympic athlete was in London. People generally want the unambiguity of an outright set of winners. Unambiguous winners may be ok in sports, but not in colleges, where the rankings have a big impact on education here in the US. Gates points out this flaw and argues instead for a "most improved student" metric.

Unfortunately, Gates' "solution" wouldn't really solve the problem either. What is the positive feedback loop for schools that rank highly on "produces the most improved students"? Would they receive extra government funding? Attract better students? I see neither of these as likely. Try again Mr. Gates.
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This is an FTE position only, and only for people with a legal right to work in the US (e.g. no H-1Bs), sorry. No recruiters, job boards, etc. please.
what's a "pilot lol"?
Aha, well apparently I never merged that commit into my deploy branch, so it was still actually on 3.2.1. That combined with the fact that your page had said 3.2.1 was safe caused my brain to short circuit and not realize that 3.2.11 is what it needed to be on. :) I'll redeploy and check it again, thanks guys!
These features are hardly inseparable from being denied root access to the device.
This is not really a community anymore, it's more like an open park. There are some old regulars, and they are recognized by the handles, but that's about it.
Norman Borlaug is probably a greater humanitarian than Bill Gates, but I'm not aware of him doing any philanthropy. Now, you probably come up with metric of philanthropy where, say, Rockefeller beat him (Percentage of then existing human wealth donated?). But most of the measures that come to mind put Bill Gates on top, so while "clearly objectively true" would be going too far, "probably objectively true" is quite reasonable.
When you define it as such, yes.

But here's the distinction: the "protection of privacy" is not a subset of the "protection of children."

You're throwing COPPA into the same bucket as every other misguided attempt to shelter children from the boogeymen of the Internet. That's not its intent; you're misinterpreting it.
That's silly. You can buy a complete arduino based flight controller with 3-axis gyro and accelerometer for less than $13. (For the best value I'd recommend the KK2.0 for $29, and for more comprehensive sensors one of the APM based boards, but you get the point.)
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Yep. Hangout makes this ridiculously easy.
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I'm not disputing that this change is a step in the right direction, but the implication that it solves roughly the same problem as the existing OpenPGP-based infrastructure is very misleading. [Edit: if you din't mean to imply this by your post then I apologize; it was not clear from how I read it.]

Same with the idea that you can "just apply a 10-line patch" without considering the background in documentation, tooling, and educating the community that such a change would require--it implies that the current rubygems maintainers are ignorant or lazy for not having done this easy fix already.

(I spoke at length on a PGP-based approach to this same problem at the 2012 Clojure Conj conference if you would like to talk about credentials: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sBSUIKMdQ4w)
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Former student pilot here: you literally spend countless hours on "coordinated turns" which involve proper use of both roll and yaw controls (ailerons and rudder). It's much more difficult to do it properly than most people think.

Also, I would describe landing a small plane--and I've heard others describe it this way--as a "controlled crash." You are basically stalling the thing on top of the runway.
Frustrating, yes; I have linked the real images here http://dtrace.org/blogs/brendan/2010/06/05/visualizing-syste...
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Yeah, that was totally our bad. I'm deploying the typo fix now.

Let me know if you have any other issues! Happy to help.
Do you have a plan to monetize pressureNET? I've been testing it for a few weeks. It's a very interesting project!

Also, pressureNET's privacy settings say, "The data we collect is the location of your device, the time, and your atmospheric pressure." Is a unique device ID shared with researchers or the public?
I can understand why you'd think that. However, if you look up, you'll see pg's explanation, which is simply that the post triggered the flamewar detector. No conspiracy here :)

So, be welcome and don't hesitate to contribute.
Is turning with a V-tail aircraft harder/easier/different than a standard tail configuration?
Ah, not sure how I got turned around, but yes I was using the scanner from the main page. Thanks for the clarification, and nice work. This is going to help out a lot of people.
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And completely missing, the old reliable pie chart. Used when showing attributes (percentage, counts, etc) of a whole.

And then there's the scatterplot. Very useful in regression models for best fit.

Charts and plots are tools. To limit yourself to just three is using a screwdriver for a hammer, or C# for any programming task.

Understand the available tools and use the right one for the job at hand.
No, but I didn't see the display as being degrading to women, which is why I'm looking for other people's perspectives. You make it sound like someone hijacked these women and used them in a degrading way. I don't see any evidence of that. Also I see no basis for presuming that they were hired only for sex appeal.
If you're interested in serious quadcopters, check out the stunts these guys are doing: http://team-blacksheep.com/videos
"I didn't really like the article. Honestly, if you're in a light aircraft and the pilot conks out you're going to get badly hurt if you survive at all. Landing a plane feels very weird for a very long time. In a big jet you'd have a far better chance: your controller can talk you through setting the autopilot to take you to a big airport, and then have you set autoland. (Of course, that scenario is pure movie fantasy, whereas the first is actually quite likely!)"

That, and a commercial jet is going to have a co-pilot in the cabin, and possibly at least one person more familiar with a cockpit than you flying in a jumpseat. If it's an international flight, then there's usually going to be another flight crew on board, too.
Being a scandinavian, I have to start by saying I do not agree on the positvie light of this article.
But having said that I thought I wanted to add a few facts. First of oil, both in Denmark and Norway plays a huge role for sustaining the welfare state. Sweeden is the biggest arm exporter per. capita. Also about armies, Denmark is the country in the world with the biggest loss per. capita in Afghanistan. And then as many say the uniformity is key to have a lot of public services. There become less choice and more standards. Those who are not able to fit the mold is having a hard time in these countries.
Amen, brother. Heck, I use a wireless headset so that even when I'm in a hangout I can walk around, go outside, etc.

Don't ask me to think about something and then sit still while doing so; you'll get whatever lazy answer I can come up with quickest - or no answer at all.
The thing that bothered me most was the eternal groveling for resources when I'm trying to build something huge and awesome. Oh boy, my pickaxe broke, time to go spend another hour finding enough iron to make another.
No, this definitely isn't the appropriate procedure for most airplanes, and the few situations where it was taught as a standard are now being reevaluated.

http://www.avweb.com/avwebflash/news/FAAProposesStallRecover...
Sergey lost.
This is absolutely amazing and has some great photos!
That was a quick response from them and they've submitted an update that fixes the issue (which was unknown to them). https://eeqj.com/20130201/path-privacy/#comment-786209180
Isn't that why creative mode exists?
Yep, hence why it's movie fantasy only.
The real nightmare comes from the undiscoverability. The right tools can help you out. Unobtrusive JavaScript used to be a nightmare, for example, until Chrome added its 'Event Listeners' tab in the developer tools. Another being the 'Go To Implementation' instead of 'Go To Definition' when writing C# with code that uses interfaces.

Yes, you need coupling when debugging. But it need not be in the libraries and code you use.
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There's a poster with the slogan "Maths hots up" that I was sure was incorrect the first few times I saw it.
And I can only assume that Java is why it runs at a crawl even at startup. But then, I only have 4 GB of RAM, enough to play pretty much every AAA game of today, but I guess Minecraft's ~cutting edge graphics~ are too complex.
Some quick feedback. I'll be blunt, but don't take it the wrong way:

1) Show a nice big picture of grapes or wine or both on your home screen. This alone will boost the appearance tenfold.

2) Way too much explaining how it works. I don't really care if it's social or there's thumbs. Just get me wishing I had a glass of wine now.

3) Don't make me sign up to experience the value. The best call to action I can think of is to have me put in a wine I like and you show me a whole bunch of wines you think I would also like. No need to signup for that.
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I know it's only a commercial (maybe for the superbowl even), but tourists walking around at night with a map eh? Even in some very decent neighborhoods I think that screams "mug me" lol.

A great way for the condom delivery guy to approach the customer would be to pretend to be a friend you were hanging out with early that's returning something you forgot at a bar :)
I disagree. For one, they aren't the only company included in this consortium. Having motivations of productization is actually a fantastic incentive for them to develop the technology to where it can be manufactured at a reasonable cost. Their work with the rest of the consortium will do wonderful things to bringing graphene into everything from consumer electronics to space exploration.
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I'm sure it will expand over time in multiple industries. Think Kinect. It started as a gaming device but is also starting to be used in physiotherapy and other medical applications.
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Too many to list really. I became a producer in 1990 so I could work on more projects. I have 23 titles in Apple's App Store, all as Producer. Look for them under "addictinggames.com", I did all but one of those.
I've heard this before:

Any landing where everyone walks away is A GOOD LANDING.

Any landing where you can also use the plane again is A GREAT LANDING.
Not only is that a naive statement, it is simply not true.

First, states are too dependent on interstate commerce and trade to operate as micro-countries. We need the federal regulations for several reasons:
- How do you tax a pipeline than runs from
Louisiana to Texas?
- Or a power grid that spans an entire region of states?
- Or how do you provide social services to people who live
in New Jersey but whose work is taxed in Manhattan?