skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Chromebook is fully capable of running other operating systems. Given that Chrome OS is free, and the fact that they are going for simplicity, it seems like they have a very reasonable system; which is designed explicitly to allow alternative OSes without compromising the 'normal' user.

In a normal boot, the computer loads a read only firmware. It then checks the file system for kernel images. At this point, it finds the newest one (with a valid cryptographic signature from google), and boots into that. If none of the kernels are signed, then it enters a recovery mode.

However, every chromebook has a physical switch to put it in developer mode. In this state, the cryptographic checks are no longer performed, so you are free to load your own OS.

The only problem with this system is that if you want to load your own kernel, you are stuck with the security of every computer before secure boot became common. Seeing as that is still most computers, (and I do not see what benefit google would get from reguiring users to surrender that benefit), I think this is reasonable.

It would, however, be nice to be able to modify the keystore and load my own verified OS. Thankfully, there are plenty of UEFI systems that support this.
So would I. I grew up in Mormon country and even though I don't share their beliefs I always find the mainstream undercurrent of disdain very upsetting.
Since DNS records change rarely, it's trivial to have multiple active DNS servers for a domain. In normal deployments, DNS doesn't have a single point of failure. It does have "weak consistency", like you say, but that doesn't matter if the records rarely change.
So...I guess I disagree with the premise. There is no single educational achievement that anyone can get that will single-handedly assure success in their career.

Have there been many success stories of people with MBAs? Yes. Have there been many success stories of people with law /medicine/accounting degrees? Yes. Do each of those guarantee success. Hells no.

Does an education guarantee success? No. The only thing that guarantees success is determination to be successful.

For me...my MBA taught me how the world works. It is surprising how few people understand how it truly works - yet they speak as if they know. For that single achievement alone, I would encourage everyone to get an MBA. That being said, does that mean that everyone that gets an MBA understands the world? No. I think it was more my finance/economics slant that did that.

Even still...does everybody with those slants achieve the results I did? Absolutely not.

So as I said.....it's not about the single data point that will make you a success - it's more than that. Survivor's bias (not sure if that is the correct term here) does lead people to link the two - i.e. the people that are more likely to be successful are the ones that are more likely to get a degree like that.

That being said...all people who get those degrees won't be "successful" and all successful people won't have those degrees.
I don't think I disagree, but for the sake of argument, if the cost of addressing flaws with progressively pickier authorization controls exceeds the cost of eradicating bugs, that's not a success for least-privilege.

My bigger bone to pick here is that the security frontier has shifted; we're no longer as interested in the border between applications and the operating system as we are in the border between different pieces of application code, and the border between the application and the database.
My last apartment had <1mbps with AT&T. I was working remotely for a company that required VPN+VNC into a linux server on their intranet to get anything done. Any time my roommates tried to watch something on hulu/netflix (frequently), our router had to be rebooted.
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Show HN: Apology Letter from American + 2500 miles
We strive every day to get it right. Most days we do, but Tuesday, April 16, was unfortunately not one of those days. American experienced a problem with our network systems that caused many flight delays and cancellations.

First, I want to express my sincere apologies for the inconvenience this caused you. It's our responsibility to get you to your destination on time, and that didn't happen.

Know that we immediately put all hands on deck to identify and resolve the problem - working to get our systems running smoothly, our flights back on schedule, our customers rebooked and back on their way.

I'm very proud of American's people who once again showed real professionalism in getting our operations back to normal and doing their best by you, our customers, at a difficult time.

In recognition of your loyalty to American and appreciation of your patience and support, as an AAdvantage® Gold member, we will be depositing 2,500 AAdvantage bonus miles* in your account. If you have further questions about how we can help you with rebooking or refunds, please visit www.aa.com.

Thanks for your patience, and as always, thanks for your business.
does google have customer service for the internet service?
Depending on how you set things up you might use one sandbox to perform multiple decompression calls, so the attacker might be able to mangle someone else's data. But yes, if you set up a new sandbox for each inflate you're safe.
DNS amplification as a strategy is a symptom of shitty network management on the part of incumbent ISPs.

I'm pretty sure Google will be more responsive in addressing these kinds of outbreaks.
Man I wish. Enough talk about Monkey Island. Escape Velocity was a fantastic adventure game that could use some more sequels.
Valued at $770M, Clash of Clans game studio Supercell raises $130M
Bellevue, WA would be... interesting, but would be a far easier incremental step than Seattle.
Hello JimWillTri, we have incurred a ton of technology costs in relaunching the site and wanted to make some strategic hires. We received a fair valuation for the raise and believe this capital will be enough to propel us to the next level.
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I would also echo this: "Make learning a competitive advantage" is vague. It was only until I clicked on "customers" that I got a rough sense of what your product is trying to accomplish.

Also, the "see pricing and plans" button doesn't need to be up on top with your tag line (because its likely that users won't know about your product from the current tagline alone). This should be somewhere down the bottom after someone has gotten a sense of what your product does.

In fact, I think you already wrote your most powerful tagline: "We’ll be the software behind https://learn.MY-COMPANY.com. Just put that up top.

I just concentrated on the front page. The color scheme is quite pleasing :)
Completely agree. It seems people who have no problem with Linux package management are bringing over the same problems to what should be a non-programmer-friendly system.
To the best of our knowledge, but that's kind of the point of this work isn't it? Look at something blown up on a large enough scale and see if the results show that it's actually continuous or if there's evidence that (in this case) there's a "real" lattice QCD grid size affecting things.
Google's HN Spammer
> Rep. Mike Rogers Calls CISPA Opponents "14 Year Old Tweeters in Their Basement"

Yes -- a bunch of people who are four years away from being able to vote Rogers out of office.
* We are soliciting feedback on our more B2B channels too.*

I'm sorry, but I don't understand this sentence. Do you mean that you are getting feedback from prospects? Or getting feedback from other businesses (that are not prospects)?

By their, I mean businesses who might actually buy your product. That's the only feedback you should really pay attention to. Asking for opinions on HN is good, but ultimately, less valuable than trying to make a sale with a real prospect.
Hello Aco, we have an excellent relationship with Gilt and value them as a partner. I just meant it was an out-of-pocket expense initially.
Lessons From a Chicken Farm: Relative Risk and Antifragility
I'm somewhere between the two of you: I think error-free programs are achievable, but I realize it's a huge amount of work and it's impossible to ever know for certain if you've succeeded. I see capsicum as something to help bridge the gap between "I don't think there are any bugs in here" and "this program is safe to run".
Yup. Two car trains for some reason are a hack into pretty much every part of MUNI's systems. Thats why in the underground stations you used to hear "N N in 3 minutes." The audible announcements have since been updated, but the old arrival displays that show the screenshot of the control center computer (the squares on the teal lines) still show two car trains the same as two different trains very close together.
>it is in no way their place to dictate what is or is not in the previous poster's "best interest".

That's the libertarian position. Which is fine, but know that you're now in the company of those who think it should be fine to sell methamphetamine or asbestos or expired food and medicine because people should be free to decide what's in their own interest.

>When the radical theists do, I am fairly sure the rest of us will be amenable.

I don't think the radicals are the real obstacle. They're just the loudest and the most obnoxious -- and they're the hardest to convince anyway. What you need are the moderates who are just on the other side of the line. They're the ones who you never see on television but you always see in the voting booth. Which is why condemning anyone who disagrees with you is a bad strategy. You don't want to fight against the middle, you want to convince them to fight for you.
Anyone know if it has the same single point of failure issues as HDFS (NameNode)?

Also, bummer that it's written in Java. I know that was for easy pluggability into Hadoop, but it makes it tough to write bindings for other languages.
Off by only 1 year for me.

BTW the site seems to be under high load, it timed out, and had to reload the results page quite a few times, but eventually I got the result.
Came here hoping it was this. Ah well, there's always Transcendence: http://transcendence.kronosaur.com/
Seems much more likely to be the people behind glass-apps.org than Google.
Thanks at-fates-hands, we're a service business and care about our clients. Mike preaches this quote: “There is only one boss. The customer. And he can fire everybody in the company from the chairman on down, simply by spending his money somewhere else.” ~ Sam Walton
Can we change perceptions in anxious situations?
And my point is that capsicum is a way to impose boundaries between different parts of a single application.
that makes this submission extra funny:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5440466
Previous discussion of the same map: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5457329
I'm 46, and it said 46. Uncanny.
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Have we lost Google as our biggest ally against controversial bills?
First article, any and all criticism is gladly appreciated.
Developing an almost full proof bitcoin lottery verification system
We are talking about Samsung here, this is the company that has pretty much ripped off every successful design in its history. I'm fairly certain they've never stood on principle for anything but a hearty office chuckle.
alt+. does the same thing as well, and is slightly easier to type.
Yeah, I worked for an iOS game company that asked its employees to give its games positive reviews in the App Store and everywhere else they could think of. I don't think many of us bothered - I certainly didn't.
A funny story about "cd -". When I first started learning the command line during a programming course, they basically told us just enough to get by in order to complete the assignments. Somehow, "cd -" was mentioned but not "cd ..", so for a long time I used "cd -" as my only method for getting to the parent directory! (since that was usually where I had just come from). Reading about everyone discovering "cd -" much later in learning bash is very amusing, since I have been using it since day one (albeit in a totally incorrect way!)
Neat. Can you say a little more about that?
> Antares launch fails

"Fails" isn't very accurate -- the launch never took place, the system detected and anomaly and prevented the launch. A launch scrub isn't a failure, it's a postponement.

Also, the linked tweet doesn't call it a failure -- that's the submitter's choice of word.
Reading his paper about his students bug-finding contest, I think I remember them on the bugtraq mailing list for his course. "This is so a remote exploit, my professor said so, and said I shouldn't listen to you guys."

Fun times. We've all grown up since then, I think, self included. I think.
What Can Baseball Tell Us About Big Data?
I'm not criticizing them, its neat to find something like this here. I can find it on almost any other site out there, but HN is not the place to game. Still, who knows if glass-apps.org is getting a nice check from Google. Not a bad thing, either. I know of companies whose sole reason of existence is to do this for bigger companies. Its just neat. That's all.
What's scary is how cheap it is to buy politicians.
Looks like a bot that programmatically shovels trendy topical matter from RSS into HN. The submission and article headlines are identical, down to the curly quotes - smells of automation to me.
Clearly we all (myself included) have one-track minds.
Spoiler: Yeah, they were Y2K compliant.

I got a VAX post-Y2K and ran VMS and NetBSD just fine.
Eh, how is this proof that they are "Google's" spammer? They seem to post a huge amount of stuff, a lot of related to Google Glass. They are plenty of Glass fanboys out there already, just take a look at /r/android on Reddit.
This is called dead reckoning[1]. Given the previous two locations you can tell the speed. Since you know the route the bus will take, you just plot it where it would be if it never stopped moving since the last update. It's pretty close 90% of the time.

1. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_reckoning
Yes, prospects. Mailing lists, relevant LinkedIn groups, etc.

I generally agree with you, but I think this community has an eye for detail we might not find in other groups.
Did You Check the Log?
You may look in to: http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r1.1.2/streaming.html for that.
Hadoop's HTTPFS (http://hadoop.apache.org/docs/r2.0.3-alpha/hadoop-hdfs-httpf...) maybe. If this is a dropin replacement, a REST wrapper around the API to just take advantage of it with client bindings in random libraries could work as well.

Edit: https://github.com/amplab/tachyon/blob/master/src/main/java/...
It appears to just be a thin wrapper around HDFS, so the namenode and what not probably applies here.
TinyMCE 4 beta released
No one is shocked to hear that astro turfing is going on on the internet.

A few too many "English Major style" reviews and it's pretty obvious.
Not that it's very hard to fix a mangled card--if it's torn, you just look at it and type up a new copy. It's only 80 characters max.
When I go to that link, I go to the home page for Google Fiber, not the Provo specific page, after clicking through to the Provo specific page I do indeed see the $30 one time fee.
It's not the only one. Here's a few others:
ZDNet - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=wagtail and https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=CrankyBear
MacObserver - http://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=davethenerd
ITWorld - https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=joewooglin and https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=jfruhlinger
Hello Marcamillion, without going into too many specifics about our numbers we actually get a lot less than 30k unique visitors per month. However, 80% of our business is from repeat customers and our customer retention numbers are very strong. This is the core of our business and how we plan to grow. We have done basically zero off-line marketing.
A multi-billion dollar multinational conglomerate?
Meta-spamming. (:

Blog post in 3...2...1...
Do you have an MBA? I'm not trying to sound like a dick- that's an honest question.

I do have an MBA and while I definitely think it was overpriced, the relationships with top faculty, in-depth case studies, and lasting friendships that I got out of it is definitely beyond what you will get from a book.

That said, experience is and always will be the best teacher. There is only so much you can get from relationships, classrooms, and personal accounts described on blogs. At some point you have to find out for yourself by doing. Doing is the hardest part and it constitutes about 99% of success, which is why so few people ever succeed or even try.

I know people who are not at all "technical" or "businessy" who run wildly successful small businesses because they just did and didn't know any better. Of course there were other things they had going for them- they were personable, had large networks of friends, etc., but my point is that there isn't a formula for success, but you do have to get shit done.
Sorry Jazzychad, all will be fixed with the new site! Michael Scharf also sends his apologies to all reading this.
This is just some random guy promoting his "glass-apps" site. No Google conspiracy here.
Ooh! Nifty. Thanks for the link.
How long is the Ember.js learning curve? Can you use it in an existing project? (Without replacing a large part of existing code)

Asking because I might have some influence over what technologies our company might use in the near future.
> It's possible I'm missing something fundamental, here, in which case please help me out. What is your ideal-world vision of how an OS should handle installing & managing binaries & dependencies?

Drag (anywhere) to install. Drag to the trash remove. Add an optional App Store UI to purchase/download/update applications and call it a day.

This doesn't work for software build/distributed via the UNIX model, but that's the whole point -- if you don't use the UNIX approach to distributing end-user software, you don't create a problem that requires a package manager to solve.
I don't. Your claim is specific, extreme and insane. Your co-workers or manager just from what you wrote would easily know who you are, the only thing you did was detach the claim from your main account.

Beyond that, if even a hint of what you say is true, you have every right to seek legal recourse (again, throw away account + insanely openly racist claim makes me have doubts).
It would have been useful for the article's author to say which browsers support it.
On average things get more broken, not less, because a small company can only break so much before it simply stops working altogether, while a big one can absorb enormous blows of failure and continue on inertia alone, while simultaneously taking many more minds and bodies along for the ride.

Nearly everything in software is based upon a mad scramble to create value without collapsing. When software manages to not collapse for decades, we look upon it with 20/20 hindsight, thinking, "wow they did great engineering," but really, it's the same as thinking the Romans were great architects because of the things they built that by chance stood for a few thousand years.
Algorithmic trading for dummies - part 2
Thanks! Definitely sounds like we need to tighten up the message.

This is great. :)
Best of luck with your new business lex. Michael Scharf will be reaching out to you shortly.
Find the juggling club. There probably is one. Learn to juggle. It's an intensely social activity (juggling clubs and conventions) usually filled with interesting and diverse people.
And is it illegal? I'm pretty sure paying for fake negative reviews of competition is illegal, because there is a clear victim. But how about positive reviews of companies' products?
While everyone else discusses the uselessness of the map: shouldn't it be, "With whom do you hang?" I mean, if you're gonna use "whom," might as well not end with a preposition.
For those of us that didn't study thermodynamics, what is the answer that's so stunning?
Confirmed:

http://information-man.com/impressum/

"Verantwortliche Ansprechperson: Iwan Uswak"

information-man -> infoman

whois glass-apps.org:

Domain Name:GLASS-APPS.ORG

Registrant ID:AT1001919805572
Registrant Name:Iwan Uswak
Review: iSteve – 20%
Not really -- I'm not involved with capsicum, either as a developer or as a user (yet... I'm waiting for this project to make it easier for me to integrate capsicum into my code). What I know is just based on talking to the people behind capsicum.

The best information is on the Capsicum website: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/research/security/capsicum/

Particularly interesting bits:

chromium-capsicum - a version of Google's Chromium web browser that uses capability mode and capabilities to provide effective sandboxing of high-risk web page rendering.

Library self-compartmentalization - we are adapting a number of commonly-used libraries, such as compression and image processing libraries, to automatically execute risky portions of their code in capability mode sandboxes. This will allow largely or entirely unmodified applications, such as web browers, to benefit from lightweight and easy-to-deploy sandboxing.
I started my first job in 1974. My first project was to migrate apps running one of those 402 unit record machines (plus an attached adder/subtracter, plus a multiplier/divider/square-rooter) to IBM mainframes. There were a lot of those patch panels, one for each app. So my first step was to write a 402 patch panel emulator. ;) This freed up the floor space we needed to rewrite the apps properly. Quite a difference from nodejs and Angular SPAs.
Frankly, I'm not sure that's true. :)
But he isn't -- he pointed out an insanely racist real world thing -- he identified himself in real life already to any of his co-workers who read this (being called Carbomb is obviously not normal workplace behavior, in meetings... WTF... terror cell... seriously?). The only people he "hid" his identity from are other HN users from seeing his HN history.

It makes his claim to me suspicious.
I follow your comments and your skeptic bubblebursting approach is refreshing. You should write a blog or something.
$4.
Not to mention: when did it become a crime to post links to your own site? If it catches on -- fine. If not, no big deal.
> religious populations nearly uniformly opposed to your position

There's a lot to unpack here, and I disagree with more than this one part of your comment, but I want to be absolutely clear on this. Catholics are not "nearly uniformly opposed" to SSM. As of 2012, a slim majority (around 52%) of American Catholics support SSM (Pew Research poll). The pope does not speak for all, or even most Catholics.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homosexuality_and_Roman_Catholi...

You probably wouldn't object to calling a racist person a bigot. It is my opinion that just because there are more (open, visible) homophobes than (open, visible) racists doesn't mean that we shouldn't try to call it what it is. Would it have been inappropriate in 1978, the year that the Mormon church finally rescinded their policy of not allowing black people to be ordained, to call Mormon racists out as bigots? I feel that it would not.
Ok, but you haven't answered my question.
US Senate rejects amendment to expand gun-sale checks
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What's wrong with this machine?

With typical Windows PC would come occasional hardware failures, crashes, data losses and viruses which all are serious trouble if you don't have somebody knowledgeable on site to mitigate and fix them.