skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So the lesson here is that if a federal prosecutor wants to take something, like your house or a $1,000,000 hotel you own free-and-clear, then even if their case is SO weak that they will go on to lose on nearly every point, it will still take you about $500,000 of legal bills to defend yourself, and that's BEFORE the appeals, plus some of his lawyers were free.
It crashes finder. WTH?
> [Android] provide the isolation by creating a new user account for each app and by default apps get no permissions.

That's ok, but if the app ever manages to get more permissions then it may be able to keep them (set-uid shell for example, or keeping a socket open past being permitted to use the network, or holding some token, etc). I don't know how much of that you can do with Android per se, but in general it's not enough to use programmatic permissions like that.

Another factor necessary for security is non-interceptable input. This is part of why iPhone has a physical button for going to the home screen, so that it is not possible to fake a home screen. With a software button some app could go fullscreen and present a bogus button and then use a fake home screen to trick users (it wouldn't be easy but possible).

So a huge missing factor on desktop OSes is missing hardware support for input to the OS. Windows kind of has this with ctrl-alt-del, where you can log in without any possible fake login screen. Instead of "caculator" or "play/pause" there should be special buttons that only input to the OS and are not readable by applications. For instance instead of a Gnome dialog box asking for your password to approve some change the user should press the "secure ok" key on the keyboard.
I had looked at it, but none of the writer friends I have had any experience with it. I'll give it a shot now that it has had a recommendation from someone who has actually used it.
I've cut back a lot on my diet cola, but I really like fizzy drinks. Seeing the Crystal Light (my goto non-caffeinated drink) and others makes me highly intrigued. The 30 day money back guarantee makes it a certainty.
I agree with your statement in reference to relative differences between cultures: "there is no way to measure such a thing."

I was wondering if you could expand on this part of your comment:

>>>I'm not the one making outrageous claims about there being bigger cultural differences between US states than between countries. It's just not true...

It seems like you are making a positive claim about the truth of the parent's statement about cultural differences.

>>>I can't provide data on it because there is no way to measure such a thing.

Now it seems like you are claiming that there is no (scientific, reality-based, data-driven) way to make any positive claims about the truth of the parent's statement about cultural differences.
Or perhaps US government...
What didn't happen -- the editor-in-chief of a prominent tech news site getting special treatment -- is almost more interesting to me than what did. Maybe ArsTechnica just isn't known over across the Atlantic at eBay UK? But I'm surprised that nobody noticed and offered to straighten things out in the two weeks since his original article.
Are their green claims just 'greenwash'? Im thinking disposable CO2 canisters can't be that good for the environment either?
There was about 1.5 million apps and just one world the last time I checked. Not every app needs to save the world. Making it a little better is a noble goal.
This is the only thing preventing me from making the switch to Dvorak. I'd be interested in people's thoughts as well.
>If the SodaStream product is a better “soda idea” than Coke and Pepsi, then shouldn’t it be given a fair shot within any medium it decides to risk its dollars?

On a private network? No.
Does Vine have it’s first Vine-Superstar?
Both my Mac and Android twitter clients are still logged in, and in the e-mail they said that session tickets had been invalidated...
Yeah, the title is misleading and sounds so boring that a lot of people might not even bother reading any further.
I don't like this idea because now a single client will tax all of your servers at once.
A hypothetical question I'd like to have some possible answer to:

What would've happened if Minecraft were made open source? How would that alternative reality be different from our current one?
I would appreciate if someone can explain to me why I am feeling a urge to visit the office tomorrow only to see stuff crashing on my OSX workstation.
I say the same thing about why I loathe Chrome and adore Safari. I can't really say why, Safari just feels right.
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I was an engineer at Google when the Aurora attacks happened. Until we know more about the attackers and how it was pulled off, we don't know if this was amateur hour security, or if Twitter was facing an Advanced Persistent Threat with multiple 0days and custom malware.

Google used a combination of kerberos, SSH public key auth, client-side SSL certs, and a custom crypto system called Low Overhead Authentication System (LOAS), all of which utilize zero-knowledge proofs rather than sending passwords to the server. Google still got compromised, using a (0day?) Adobe Reader exploit sent via impersonating a co-worker on AIM or MSN Messenger (as I remember).

Let's leave the jury out on this one until we find out what happened.
Golfing it for Haskell

go :: (Show k, Eq k) => Map k v -> Map k v -> String
go m1 m2 = map show >>> sort >>> intersperse ", " >>> mconcat >>> orNone
$ keys m1 ++ keys m2
where orNone [] = "<none>"
orNone e = e
The data detectors, at least in my TextEdit were turned off (never touched it before) so typing the aforementioned string doesn't cause any issues.

However in my stupidity of attempting to tell you guys that I could type the aforementioned string, I caused Safari to hang. No crash, but it was complete and utterly useless.
Typing it into a text box in Safari causes Safari to hang completely. Had to force quite it.
FWIW, some hosts were more proactive --- Heroku in particular sent out email to the owners of vulnerable apps within a day or two of the announcement.
I would even disagree with the assertion about Runkeeper directly. I never had a history of desiring to run. In fact, I might even say that I hated doing it. However, the nerd in me had an interest in the data I could collect while running. That pushed me out there to actually do it. You maybe still wouldn't call me an athlete, but I am definitely more athletic now than I was before the technology was in my hands.
To be fair, I have never had to buy condoms ever. The condom industry don't need to advertise to freeloaders...
That's because SublimeText doesn't use NSTextFields, and therefore, doesn't use Data Detectors. It's not voodoo.
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Seriously, people, learn how to read a backtrace. This is hacker news, not social-media-manager-who-claims-they-are-a-geek news.
I'd buy one... if only it were actually available here in the US.
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There's a significant amount of work involved in an autolanding [1], and unlikely that a non-pilot would be able to land a big jet successfully.

[1] http://www.askthepilot.com/questionanswers/automation-myths/
Ask HN: Schema for Accessing ~9k data points 
I am working on a freelance project that captures an audio file, runs some fourier analysis, and spits out three charts (x-y plots). Each chart has about ~3000 data points, which I plan to display with High Charts in the browser.

What database techniques do you recommend for storing and accessing this much data? Should I be storing the points in an array or in multiple rows? I'm considering Mongo too. Plan is to use Rails, so I was hoping to use a single database for both data and authentication.

I haven't dealt with queries accessing this much data for a single page, and this may very well be a tiny overall amount of data. In addition this is an MVP for demonstration to investors, so making it scalable to huge levels isn't of immediate concern.

My initial thought is that using Postgres and having one large table of data points, stored per-row, will be fine, and that that a bunch of doubles is not going to be too memory-intensive relative to images and such.

Realistically, I may just pull 100 evenly-spaced data points to make the chart, but the original data must still be stored.
That's cool. I was using markable.in in last weeks. But lack of code highlighting and Mathjax brings socrates.io on the first place :)
Rails 2.x apps aren't necessarily using Bundler at all, and some folks may have disabled the vulnerable parsers, or installed the security patches only into an earlier version to avoid other breaking changes or new deprecations. (Rails-core has gotten better at avoiding this kind of collateral damage from upgrades, but some folks are still gun-shy.)

Actually probing the running app really is the only way to be sure.
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Great idea (if I understand it correctly) but yeah, not much in the way of communicating what it's purpose is.

Did you just run out of steam?
I cannot express how happy am I working remotely,
I am more productive, I can be with my dogs, I can think
much more clearly.

But unfortunately, I get terminated for working remotely in the past 3 jobs I have as a programmer.

I live and work in the Philippines, and I always opted for an office job that takes care of my government securities and taxes, which I cannot get from working remotely on a virtual staff company or freelance website.

So I always end up working on a traditional office, but every once in a while I take up my vacation leave or sick leave and do excuses just to be at my house and _continue_ working, because I love programming and I always love to do it at home.

But it always turned out badly for me, and always get terminated for being 'AWOL' or work abandonment, just because I'm not at the office.
Ask the pilot: Can someone with no flight training safely land an airliner?
Nevermind ... re-ran TextEdit and tried again, immediately crashes. data detectors are still turned off.
I got one for Christmas. It has been complete shit. I can't get it to operate correctly.
several futures markets queue partially or only by order size.
> into every student pilot

Someone who does not know how a plane works and does not have a conscious PIC shouldn't touch anything without direction from the ground unless a collision is imminent.

I assumed the (hijacking) and (emergency) labels were pretty obvious.
At first i thought the email was phishing but sure enough my acct was reset even with 17 chars. i wonder if Twitter can cull any correlations from this compromised pool, epidemiological-like
If you're going through mainstream distribution, even at large volumes, at least 30-35% between the retailer and distributor is expected for electronics. More for other classes of goods. If the value proposition is really to handle distribution and fulfillment 35% could be attractive to small businesses that are below volumes for mainstream distribution.
it's not any worse than using javascript to further the ad industry
EngineYard did this too, FWIW.
This bug is even crashing the crash reporter app as well. It vanishes shortly after appearing when I reproduce the bug in TextEdit.
I would say the same to you.
Only 2950 accounts with IDs from 1 to 6136 still exist, so there's been pretty much a 50% attrition rate at that level.
What are you talking about? The US Military does not enforce free trade on the high seas. I am not aware of it taking any day to day role against piracy at all.

Singapore has its own navy. Why would you need to buy off 30 different military forces to sail the straits of Malacca? I'm not an expert on Egypt but I'm sure they can enforce free passage on their own canal.

You're talking as if the US is the only rational state actor in the world. It is not. This is not The Pirates of the Caribbean, and the US is not the British Empire circa 18th century.
I also always catch up sleep on the commute. Sleep is really the best thing to do while commuting
This is when you call a payroll company and let them sort it out for you.
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i think that is nonsense.
Very concerning that while my session was terminated in my browser my iPhone and iPad apps are still authenticated. Shouldn't those sessions have been invalidated too?
Right. Hiragana and Katakana ist trivial (just a couple of characters), but no support for Kanjis currently
I have nothing against Notch, Mojang, or Minecraft, but I have to mention Infiniminer, an earlier fpb(first person block) style game that I wish hadn't been cracked and then maliciously destroyed, and then abandoned by Zachary Barth.

>>>5. It's been covered but Notch has used the massive profits of Minecraft ... and really help out the developers who make it possible

Notch may have helped out some of the developers who made Minecraft possible, but I hadn't heard that he helped out the ONE developer who made Minecraft possible.

Here are Notch's words for which developer made the game "Minecraft" possible. http://notch.tumblr.com/post/227922045/the-origins-of-minecr...

>>>But then I found Infiniminer. My god, I realized that that was the game I wanted to do.

Has Notch given some of his massive profits to Zachary Barth, the developer who made Minecraft possible?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zachary_Barth
I think there is away to not host images - I could just record strokes and play that back with js.
apple will go lower in the next 12 months, and it has nothing to do with HFT
This. I've also heard a little bit of baking soda in the water helps separate the egg from it's shell but I haven't much luck with it.

I cook at least a dozen eggs a week with this thing

http://www.amazon.com/Nordic-Ware-64802-Microwave-Boiler/dp/...

Getting the timing right with your microwave is key, but there is no clean up and they cook perfect every time.
"Landing: This must be the hardest part of flying to teach, because you can understand the concepts, theory, and techniques fully, and still make an absolute mess of a landing. So much depends on the "feel" of it, which varies significantly based on the plane you're in (even of the same type), the weather, and especially the wind."

I wrote this while it was still very fresh in my mind, right after getting my PPL: http://blog.jasonhanley.com/2010/07/learning-to-fly-airplane...
In fairness, if other users apps are able to hurt yours then that is not very good security anyway.

Their only other option would be to push the update to everyone and risk it breaking things.
Add Finder to the list. It dies if you try adding it to one of the color label names.
Two main reason Apple is getting a pass on this right now:

- Microsoft's recent desktop offerings aren't any better, and Linux is still not a viable option for the common user.

- Most people are doing less with the OS than ever before. Chrome/Safari and/or the iPad are an ever growing percentage of what Apple users see
>Im thinking disposable CO2 canisters can't be that good for the environment either?

Who's disposing of those things, they are much cheaper to swap out.
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you guys remember the uproar that the telegraph caused in the trading community? the street has never recovered.
Also, population of US: 300 million, population of Sweden: 10 million, only a bit more than NYC
They're not disposable. They reuse them. You get a rather sizable discount (50%) for giving an empty one back when you get a new one.
Perhaps that preference only suppresses the display, but the data detectors still run.
I would love to try out your DB, but your build system is garbage

If you only knew how much we agree with you :) We have an engineer working on that now, so it will soon be much, much nicer. Also, thanks for the instructions, I'll post them on the build page after I confirm everything.
Seems to work in email though: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5154915
We just had this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5134022 (Lack of URL canonicalization strikes again.)
and for the very curious, my bachelor thesis is on shapecatcher, http://shapecatcher.com/B_Milde%20-%20On%20The%20Security%20...

There is a whole chapter on shape contexts in it, which I use with shapecatcher, too.
If you start just handing out condoms to drunk people 90% of them are going to be used for purposes other than their intended one.

Condoms are available for free at most health clinics.

I would guess that in most cases they are not used because they make sex less fun rather than because they are unavailable.
How about http://cssdeck.com/labs ?
Wow, the most proprietary company in the computer/consumer electronics business suffers from groupthink. Who woulda thunk it? Grouse all you want about the Wintel PC but IBM made it open from the get-go.
The CO2 canisters are refilled/exchanged and not disposable. It certainly passes the smell test to me and they have a ton of info on their carbon footprint on the website. For me, I love the convenience of not having to go buy bottles of soda water and then recycling them after. You just fill the sodastream bottle, carbonate, drink, rinse, repeat.
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This. IS. AWESOME.
> even though there technically isn’t one) is facing up to 100 years in jail for three separate indictments. The most recent two indictments—the threatening of an FBI officer in a YouTube video and the concealing of evidence—do not seem worthy of such a harsh sentence, considering a man in Houston recieved only 42 months for threatening to blow up an FBI building, and a former dentist got 18 months for threatening to kill an FBI agent.

Interesting slight of hand comparing maximum possible jail time for three separate offenses to actual sentences for one.
So what is the CIA responsible for? Stealing Wikileaks's secrets?
It's my understanding that in some parts of the world, the word "professional" in a sexual context can lead to an awkward chat with Officer Grimface.
Just reading that makes me realize how much time has passed.

Can you imagine the criminal prosecution of those kids if they were to do that today? No "three years of juvie max, likely community service". Particularly in Texas.
w0w sana maging hacker dn ako balang araw.....
I got both of these emails.
This all feels very hollow.

The entire tone of this op-ed strikes me as either impossibly naive or full of manufactured outrage. How a Forbes contributor is somehow oblivious to the nature of entrenched (and lucrative) corporate relationships is beyond me.

Not to mention that beneath all the free-market rah-rah chest thumping, he entirely disregards the fact that a private company is quite within their right, laws permitting, to decide with whom they wish to do business.
This is getting rigoddamndiculous.
i want to bi a hacker
I'm preparing to try that one out. It looks so interesting and much more fun that writing stuff on Eclipse.
Does eBay seriously not verify email addresses!?
Everyone says that, but I've seen no data to back it up. In fact, most studies show the exact opposite, that home schooled children have better social skills. People just assume that since they went to school, everyone else should too. Is it really in a child's best interest to spend the majority of his time with hundreds of other poorly supervised children, learning to emulate their behavior rather than the behavior of trusted adults?

As soon as you get out of school you realize that adult life, for most people, is absolutely nothing like school. It's shocking just how much nicer adults are than children. The only social environment school really prepares you for is an institutionalized one (e.g., prison).

And don't even get me started on the distractions, by the time I was 13 or so I spent so much time worrying about girls (and other social stuff, but mostly girls) that learning was the last thing on my mind (I still made a 4.0 in high school, but I didn't actually learn much). I also don't think that those juvenile relationships prepared me in any way for actual adult relationships.
I wonder why they don't market that more widely, I was looking for refills around a display and couldn't find them. There was nothing about where or how to get a canister that I could find on the outer packaging.
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The moment an OS maker requires signed apps (on desktop) is the moment I jump ship.

Why the parenthetical? What's different about a computer you can hold in your hand that makes it justifiable for the vendor to lock it down and advocate criminal penalties for attempting to run software of your choice?

They know it's the death knell for desktop OSes though.

"They" have already decided that desktop OSes for the general public are deprecated. Steve Jobs years ago said that PCs are "trucks" that most consumers shouldn't use, and Microsoft has no hesitation about sacrificing Windows 8 usability on desktops in favor of tablets. Even Canonical seems to be headed that way with Unity.
I'm writing a short e-book on the subject. But the best way to do this is to go to the minecraft wiki and start reading. They have tutorials in there. Reddit also has some very good information and you can ask questions. You can always shoot me an email.
That's insane. Is there a write-up about the security behind that Google server configuration?
Crashes:

XCode 4.5.2

TextEdit

iTunes

Preview

I'm typing File:/// in every textbox I could find. This is some weird fun. Way to spend my Saturday morning.
What an unfortunate name for a not-so-terrible idea.
Yeah - I'd say there are big gaps. I'm 1577581 and got the email. You can check people's join dates here http://www.whendidyoujointwitter.com/
Like https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4924148 but with additional potential to ruin your career.