skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is not an irrational fear, nor a cultural one. It's mostly tied with local laws and rules. For example, the US being such a hotbed for class actions and frivolous law suits, I can imagine that some wealthy individuals would rather keep their balance from lawsuit 'trolls' ... But that is just my opinion
As a side note the photos of "people I may know" on Facebook, in emails I get and the emails in the post are mostly pretty girls.
The Medoo - A new and lightweight PHP database framework released
A firewall might be adequate; configuring postgres itself seems not to be. The vulnerable code is invoked before client authentication, so anyone who can make a tcp connection to the postmaster process can exploit the attack, even if their source IP would otherwise get them unconditionally bounced.
The "Rails magic" you mentioned above can be very powerful with "Ruby magic" if you know how to use them well.
Google stabs WebKit in the back
Am I the only one who thinks this isn't embarrassing at all?
Title is retarded.

People are forgetting that technology 15 years ago wasn't like today.
Oh and he was a kid. To me this site is cool, and it brings good memories of old web.
Depends on what you are doing. I doubt that the NSA would tip their hand that they could decrypt such things even in the case of child pornographers. Anything that would be taken into open court would shine light onto where evidence, etc came from.

The real danger from NSA decryption would be in their storage facilities. What you say now could come back to haunt you in the future depending on the political climate (e.g. the US falls into a police state where political prisoners are taken, etc).
We're a pretty Windows-centric shop, I often see great effort to do OSX/Linux development via some convoluted toolchains just to be able to do the brunt of the work on Windows in Visual Studio.
Disposable workforce, both domestic and foreign.

Perhaps the worst part is the propaganda in the U.S. that works hard to convince young people otherwise.

And the impact this can have on some people who are truly altruistic. (As in, working together, we achieve more.) With respect to this, such an individual's outcome may depend somewhat on "luck of the draw". Get into an exploitative situation that e.g. adversely impacts your health, and you may end up on the "scrapheap" of employment opportunity and success.
Additional questions: Given that the DEA is more likely to reveal its methods in court intentionally or unintentionally (http://news.cnet.com/8301-10784_3-9741357-7.html), even if the NSA can decrypt iMessage communications, why in the world would they share this knowledge with law enforcement?

It's a modern version of the Ultra intercepts/Coventry blitz (now called into question). The NSA might risk revealing its methods if it would stop the next 9/11. To put a meth dealer in jail? Not a chance.
As the end of the article hints,this is highly unlikely to be actually true and more so the result of incompetence on the part of Apple and the DEA. It is most likely more of the we need better law enforcement access to stuff FUD that is used to insert backdoors into systems that actually weaken security even if you trust the government, then an actual problem

Apple appears to act as a certificate authority for IMessage [0]. At the very least Apple could man-in-the-middle any (and scarily) all their traffic. The article implies that they'd have to do this before the first message is ever sent between to parties. Presumably, we'd hope Apple has the ability to re-key the service since phones get stolen and lost, so they can forge that process to insert the bogus key. We'd probably also hope that your key is not shared across all of your devices, so it might(though its not as likely as the rekey protocol) also be possible to add a device as that is "the feds"

Yes, both of these would require active work on Apple/ law enforcement's part to forward the messages to their intended recipient. However, this isn't that much work and 2) for actual wiretaps you typically need someone to monitor the tap so you don't record information not covered by the tap(we see this in The Wire).

Lastly, there is precedent (all be it Canadian) for companies being forced to exploit vulnerabilities in their system. [1]

Also, this ignores the fact that apple has device backups of most people's devices and can probably extract keys from them ( even for the encrypted ones, its likely with a poor password)

[0]http://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2012/08/dear-apple-p...
[1] http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2007/11/encrypted-e-mai/
In plain English: stronger people live longer.
The Ukiyo-e link is good. Should have imagined that a community will arise around pretty much anything created by mankind.

I am a photographer in my spare time and I find the blend of the rigors of programming and the flow of wandering the streets just shooting randomly so opposite and yet so similar.
Marblar is hiring
Hi all - we're a VC-backed startup based in London, and we're not just another photo-sharing app or some social media platform. We're a creative community seeking to realize the promise of science.

I hope you get a chance to check us out. Please email me if you have any questions.
best, Dan
dan@marblar.com
Ask HN:Do you have a hack that helps you discover the best movies/books/music?
Don't be a Jerk: Write Documentation
What role is deviantART [1] playing in tech+art in NYC and elsewhere? Is it considered significant by either party?

[1] http://deviantart.com
Once your skillset is good enough, you can charge enough so that those hours you do work are enough to get you by. Sanity and health are huge. I've also had health problems by working too many hours nonstop in the past. Not worth it in the long run.
Climate change may be irreversible, but we control the future trajectory
simply if you r a traveler and have a place in ur luggage. visit zaagel.com and see what products are wanted by others. if you see something that you can buy and bring with you, then check its price on the provided link and add ur commission and then add an offer.

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Well, drug dealers/users would care about that distinction.
I often find myself between tech and art. Day job is mostly Rails consulting. Went to Berklee for Music Business Management (and plenty of guitar). I split my free time between technology stuff, and building functional art/music things at my hackerspace. I'd like to do yet more art. Many installations in the pipeline.
Ouya review: can an indie console take on Sony and Microsoft?
"We returned to our offices after the talk. I started another compilation, turned my chair around to face Robert, and started asking pointed questions. Before the compilation was done, we'd roped Ken in and had decided to do something."
http://commandcenter.blogspot.de/2012/06/less-is-exponential...

"Began as a 20% project"
http://talks.golang.org/2012/go1.slide#5

I have no reason to assume that they are lying.
It's all about conventions, redundancy and votes. When you know what you're looking for, and you got a community agreeing on such conventions, you know you'll get what you're actually looking for.
That's pretty much it.

And yes, it is different, "better" depends on what you're trying to do with it :)
The NSA can reveal exactly once that they can decrypt a given encryption algorithm. They're not going to waste that on something trivial.
Outcast is still one of the best FPS Melee implementations I have ever played.

Excellent balance between melee and guns, matrix style fights, many hours lost in duel games. You felt like your skill in saber combat mattered.

If someone could only make an Star Wars MMO based on this core engine...
I also thought those fb emails, and even more so the linkedin ones where people endorse you to be very effective. So I personally hated and admired them at the same time.

The problem for me is that those tactics don't seem to translate so well outside of the social-network environment. When you have customers who use your products, and there's no personal interaction between customers, then what can you use that's as effective to bring customers back to use your product?

Features is perhaps the only thing, but it's not even remotely as effective in my opinion. And features can be a double-edged sword as they are quite often not really important to the customer.
This.

I used to work at an organization that paid conspicuously less than local market value for comparably experienced developers.

The work environment, however, was a really pleasant one to work in. There were quarterly and annual company-wide events, such as going to local sporting events, scavenger hunts, Christmas dinners at fancy restaurants, and the like.

My boss was great and took an active interest in developing the skills of his team, and successfully tanked upper management, leaving us free to develop in peace. All the developers ate together in our own break room, usually over board games. There was a sense of camaraderie on our team you don't just find everywhere.

I loved working there; though I didn't want to, I ultimately had to leave when I started a family, got a house, and my expenses outpaced my income.

Perhaps I should have left sooner. Perhaps I was unwittingly underselling myself. However, I prefer to think of all of the above I mentioned as "non-cash" compensation.
Scribd hacked – emails and hashed passwords leaked
Do they lock you out after you've said where you're going?

Key: unlike tourists who I often see will peep in through the window meekly and respond to the request of "where are you going", when the car stops, just get in. You talk to the driver once inside. Not while you're on the curb.
How our first hiring candidate ideated a new feature
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“For technologists, it’s all about leveling the playing field, and the art world is a very structured, hierarchical system,”

This article seems to be talking exclusively of 'high art'.

Art isn't just found in galleries, and isn't necessarily for sale for a lot of money.

Obviously the NYTimes is focused on this type, but it's an important distinction.
The real question is, can we expect a FOSS release of old (or new) valve code any time soon? It seems natural given their modder-friendly nature and their shift towards GNU/Linux. Plus, it's about time someone else followed Carmack's example.
What typeface is this?
I think this is more a consequence of Google glomming up every available sizable office building that comes on the market in Mountain View since they, as well as other large employers like LinkedIn and MSFT--and some smaller companies, like Sumo Logic where I work--offer free lunch.
The exploit does not actually destroy the files. It allows appending data to the files making the server crash. The file could be recovered by simply removing the junk data added to it.

From the FAQ:

> Persistent Denial of Service: an unauthenticated attacker may use this vulnerability to cause PostgreSQL error messages to be appended to targeted files in the PostgreSQL data directory on the server. Files corrupted in this way may cause the database server to crash, and to refuse to restart. The database server can be fixed either by editing the files and removing the garbage text, or restoring from backup.
Any law or regulation exists because of a variety of interests trying to make it happen for their own reasons.

Certainly, the initial reasoning for medallion systems was quality of service and safety. As time goes by and taxi lobbyists become more powerful, they find ways to subvert this into limiting competition. Maybe some city councillor traded his vote on this issue to get a park built in his district, or for support in a primary.

It's not like some Big Government Socialist sat down, twirled his moustache, and said "I think today I will limit competition in the taxicab industry".
I must say, Sublime Text 3 with its Python 3.3 scripting is tempting. Vimscript is quite horrible.
Can someone explain uber to a UK reader who does not understand what the fuss is?

I can see its some sort of aggregation service for taxi cabs,
but I generally like using one particular firm, that I know vets its drivers well. Some (men & women) I know stick to women only driver firms and so forth.

A nice UI is good but I dont get it?
Economics without homo economicus
No humor zone: 33 things you should never say to a TSA agent
Do you have any plans to expand this to all scientific literature, not just medicine? A useful scientific literature search engine is greatly needed. (Good job on Mediclib, though)
After LucasArts closure, Jedi Outcast and Jedi Academy go open source
Laugh if you will, downvote if you must, but, as with many things, I trust to my dogs' opinion in the matter: they stretch before physical activity, and so do I (for other reasons of course too).

I don't dispute the short-term performance gains by not pre-stretching, but is there a long-term cost? With performance gains in any system, there are usually trade-offs. If I were in a race to win a million dollars, you can bet your ass I'm not stretching beforehand based on all this research, but what about before my light daily jog? I feel all rickety sometimes if I don't.

I'd be interested in a history of stretching, specifically before physical activity. Evolutionary precedent has a way of shedding light on these sticky questions. For example, what kind of warm-ups or stretching did cavemen do before a mammoth hunt?
If a cafe served real food (not just treats), even prepackaged, and sported a printer (charging per copy), I'd never leave.

There's a cafe near me that has good food, coffee, and beer and wine. They also have taken over the space next door and put together a separate annex with just lots of cozy chairs, as well two reservable conference rooms. The conference rooms are subject to a food & beverage minimum (If you commit to spending something like $100 on food or drink, then you can have the room for two hours).

They kind of blew it because their internet router MITMs your connections to insert javascript to display ads, and they block VPN connections to work around it, but I just tether my cell phone and get a better connection anyway.
Ubuntu repos already seem to have the fix
Skylar Tibbits: The emergence of "4D printing"
Simple rituals to reach your potential every day
CyanogenMod Android privacy vs. developer wars
EVE Online has drugs, too. #justsaying
Content Marketing Lessons From Big Brands
What has been inferred so far is worrying http://imfreedom.org/wiki/IMessage.
Hmm... so many thoughts.

Mainly though - Here is the legacy of everything remembered forever. Anyone that gets big or rich or famous from now onwards will have had some sort of footprint on the web, and people will find it.

The big question is whether we start judging people harshly based on this (as we do with politicians already) or if we as a society can finally mature, move on, and allow people to have a past.
Sure. But that's not an argument against it being possible (or actually true).

I mean, in your example there are 3 cases:

1) Obviously that can't, and they want you to shy away from using iMessage!
2) Obviously they can, and they want you to keep/start using it!
3) They can't and they are frank about it.

It could be either of the three.

We cannot say that it can only be (3) because "(1) and (2) are conspiracies".

We cannot even say that (3) is more possible because it doesn't involve a conspiracy.

It depends on more information and context to decide. Some situations we know quite well that are unlikely to involve conspiracies ("Jack said he went to Spain for holidays").

Other situations, we know quite well that are more likely to involve conspiracies ("The other 2 co-founders of my startup had a private meeting with a VC without informing me").

Now, something involving state agencies, I'd say is quite likely to involve some kind of conspiracy.
And in the case you don't have cgdb around there's gdb --tui (sometimes invoked by running gdbtui as well), which at least beats plain gdb imo.
Some are true, but most are over the top.
Aren't all Ubers livery drivers? Shouldn't they already have commercial insurance?
I don't really get the impression that it has any impact in the contemporary art world, although I would love to be proven wrong.

The closest thing I can think of was the recent Tumblr Art Symposium:
http://hyperallergic.com/tumblrart/
Are there other ways for Angels to get their capital out of a startup other than an acquisition/IPO?
Here's some artistic Go code http://instacod.es/68631
That's enough for me to want to give it a shot! Thank you!
Neo4J is a pure GraphDB with a good level of maturity and support, but lacks on scalability in comparison to OrientDB (that offers a multi-master approach) and Titan (based on HBase/Cassandra). I think Titan (that is the most recent) is a good choice if you've many servers and huge parallel workload.

Furthermore Neo4J has a dual license model and the high-available is pretty costly (http://www.neotechnology.com/price-list/) while OrientDB and Titan are both released under the Apache License (=commercial friendly). About the model even though all these products supports the same interface (Blueprints) OrientDB is more flexible allowing sub-types for Edges and Vertices where to apply constraints.

My 0,02.
Lvc@
Anatomy of a security fix: Postgres launches update to address vulnerability
Thank you! I agree that art + tech can serve as good complements to each other. They definitely exercise both sides of your brain, which I appreciate!
Mt Gox Hacked
I'm scared to death of making a more-subtle security mistake that can be exploited. I find it surprising that people can be so negligent.
If they could they wouldn't tip their hand -- the ability to decrypt iMessages would be too important.
Is it possible to download all data and use it under some open license (like CC-BY)? I can't find data license terms.

If no, then sorry, freebase is vastly superior IMHO - from user's point of view I don't see a point in a crowdsourced proprietary database (even if API is currently free).
>The more you are aware of, the better able you are to chose the better way of proceeding on a project.

This is a part of the problem. "The right tool for the job" has become an end in itself, rather than a means to an end. People spend so much time trying to develop more than a superficial understanding of a vast array of languages and frameworks, simply so they can say they are using the "right" tool for the job (perhaps so their future "show HN" post can be sexy). The right tool should always be understood as successfully executing your project as the goal. Sometimes the right tool is simply the one that you or your team has expertise with, or has a deep body of experience built up on StackOverflow. The "right" tool in absolute terms is completely meaningless. Often times it seems like people forget this.
I work in this space; sadly not in NY, but here's our project: http://www.seditionart.com
(Get the website spell checked and grammar checked by a native English speaker)
San Francisco's Trash Inspectors Get Up Earlier Than You Do
How is this possible?!

In any sufficiently large organization, the people who make the decisions and the people who enact those decisions are separated by distance, background, experience, or other reasons. This is why you see so much dysfunction in large organizations, and it extends to politics and other things that affect you as well. Look for it and you'll start seeing it everywhere.
I have a large art collection and have actually commissioned work. I've worked in art galleries and have a good understanding of the culture.

The reason for 'friction' in the art business, from my view is because it's not a traditional business. Very few galleries can actually turn a profit from sales. The few that do are in the largest cities, at the top of a mountain of unprofitable, privately funded lifestyle businesses or non-profits.

The value of art is also quite hard to quantify, especially for the outsider as the article says. The art world is confusing and insular compared to other businesses, both for new artists and collectors. The upshot is it's largely accessible from the ground up! Small venues are everywhere and desperate for eyes and dollars, everyone is invited.
Because what is "Mt. Gox"???

https://encrypted.google.com/search?q=Mt.+Gox

https://mtgox.com/ "Mt.Gox is the world's most established Bitcoin exchange."
Slow and steady wins the solar race
Titan is to Neo4j, as Cassandra is to SQLite.
Isn't "YouTube for audio" SoundCloud?
I totally agree with the premise, but (there's always a but) attitude and happiness can be manufactured artificially. So, if sharing on twitter/facebook help me to see where ever I am in the here and now in a more positive light. then the fact that I'm sharing is forcing me to look at it positively which then is in turn making the experience more happy and memorable. Hypothetically speaking. There's some assumptions there.
I miss Brendan Eich's satire homepage. Brendan is on here. Whatever happened to that?
Kitchensurfing - Union Square Ventures
Tom committed the fix, he didn't author it.
Product manager of Heroku Postgres here; if you specifically need this functionality around point in time restores you should reach out to us. Would love to hear more around the use cases behind it.
You could also group volatile taxation policy into the insolvent government bracket. It could be difficult to justify not diversifying if taxation on savings change by large amounts every time the political landscape changes.
Everything I know about design I learned playing Starcraft
The NSA is not a paramilitary force, they are a signals intelligence agency. The DEA is a paramilitary force with a large signals intelligence division, and they routinely send their soldiers to attack American homes. That is why we should be concerned about their ability to read our personal communications: they might use an intercepted message to justify a raid.
Take a lesson from open source, security through obscurity does not work. Better to be fully transparent and honest about the flaws and their fixes, and get the word out there so that people update their boxes quickly.
I think this is the core of why everyone disagrees about Uber. In certain cities (Boston, SF) it is a lifesaver. Here in NYC it's a waste of money- yellow cabs really aren't that bad or scarce. There are times of day when it's difficult to get a yellow cab, but that's the exact same time that it's difficult to get an Uber cab- either that or you're paying 2.5x the already expensive price because they switched on surge pricing.
> "Competition in large cities will put more pressure on companies."

Only if competition sticks around. In most major cities the long-term trend seems to be larger cab companies swallowing up smaller cab companies until there are only 1-2 players left, at which point competitive pressure is little to nonexistent.