skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Its reckless, up-for-anything approach seems to be working. Its stock price is now $909.18, up 50% over the last 52 weeks, and the company’s market cap is $301 billion. Its year-over-year quarterly revenue growth exceeds 30%, which is pretty remarkable for company of its size and age.

(warning: I'm not a Google fan in the Larry Page as CEO era and that has hellbanned /slowbanned me from here. Who cares. Oh well)

His entire premise is based on Google growing by 30% a year and that's done by over-monetizing https://searchengineland.com/figz/wp-content/seloads/2012/01... search and (IMHO) using search to force sites to advertise by limiting their free traffic with that purpose. Google Search seem to work to increase Adwords revenue, something many people believe in the post Larry Page world. (Still IMO) this will backfire, I read that many people do not know that they clicked on ads, they thought they were organic results. 95% or so of Google's revue is still thanks to ads.

Also Google is doing all it can to not send users to the best answer, but to ads and to a Google site. I see YouTube videos all over search, Google Places, images and other Google services. Google has become over1ly aggressive with ads and penalizing sites, in part to give themselves some runway to try other things, no one questions Larry when things are growing by 25%-30%.

As for the stock price, Apple was supposed to go to $1000 too, sometimes the fall is just as dramatic.

Bing is "good enough" for most people, that's why Microsoft is trying to muddy the Google brand. That's major risk too, if you do not trust Google results, they can go downhill quite fast.
Just as I predicted, Tesla's one quarter of profitability was just an enabler for them to raise more money for development of future models, which will most assuredly take them onto the red again, albeit probably temporarily. In this respect their profitability was not "real" in that they knew it was temporary prelude to more fund raising. It doesn't show sustainability, only that they can put the brakes on all spending for a quarter to look good to investors.

I think it's a bit dishonest of Elon to claim there were no plans to go back to the public markets in last quarter's earnings call, only to raise more money a few weeks later.
Not exactly sure how this article defends its headline at all.

Considering that the author points to Motorola and Facebook Home as wins, his grasp of the tech scene seems rather weak.
California lets an unlimited number of electric vehicles get HOV stickers to allow access at all times.
OPSEC for hackers
Cross-site request forgery prevention is all about cross-domain browser security policy.

A CSRF attack looks something like this:

1. Victim visits Evil.com.

2. Evil.com auto-submits a form to http://www.ExampleBank.com/transfer-money with parameters {"recipient": "attacker's account ID", "amount": 1000000}

3. If ExampleBank.com fails to prevent CSRF attacks, the user will unwittingly transfer $1 million to the attacker.

The technique described in the article would successfully block this attack:

1. Victim visits Evil.com.

2. Evil.com auto-submits a form to http://www.ExampleBank.com/transfer-money with parameters {"recipient": "attacker's account ID", "amount": 1000000}

3. ExampleBank.com observes that request doesn't contain a correct token parameter, so rejects the request.

Evil.com could not fetch the token themselves by curl or any other means: the token is tied to the user's account, so Evil.com would have to send the request on the client-side in order to send the request with the user's cookies. And, since Evil.com is not ExampleBank.com, the request would successfully send but cross-domain security policy would prevent Evil.com from reading the response. Therefore, only ExampleBank.com can access the token, so only ExampleBank.com can send authorized requests.
http://xfce.org/

It's never too late...
Don't feel bad working "only" 40 hours per week. No company ever failed because its employees only worked for 40 hours per week. Plenty of companies fail every day because they don't have compelling products. Compelling products don't need to be complicated, but have to be useful. Identifying usefulness is something that comes when we aren't busy running all the time, but take a step back and think about where we actually want to go. Working 40 hours per week is more productive in this regard than working 60 hours per week.
ridiculous, say forging again, i double dare you.
how you ninjas going to do that? flash 10 was released 2008.
thanks for down voting, single mind hn as usual.
I think you mean http://mate-desktop.org/
Hey, thanks for warm words. This post is not about vulns, it's about a tool I created to find vulns. :)
Dat's how we roll, homie
Expensify isnt the only ones taking on Freshbooks
With all of the publicity of Expensify adding an invoicing feature to their product - it is hard to notice other companies who's been taking on Freshbooks' invoice services head on. BillGrid.com is one of such companies. We've build an amazing product, full of powerful features to help freelancers and small businesses with their client invoicing needs. Check us out at http://www.BillGrid.com.
hmm, maybe a popup with text area. feel free to Pull request
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further more: this is one and the only proper protection.

Referer: not reliable, proxies omit it
Origin: not supported yet
Additional header: could be tricked with Flash vuln
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Because there due to the extraordinary nature of the results it's almost guaranteed that something else is causing these results.

EX: Faster-than-light neutrino anomaly http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faster-than-light_neutrino_anom...

PS: And yes having a normal router having significant effects on plant life though EM radiation is about as likely as neutrino's going faster than light. Heat, contamination, or bad seeds etc is a far more likely culprit.
It's not clear whether it was actually a short squeeze, or just a normal value increase caused by the shorts covering their positions. Shorting a stock always has a negative impact on its price, so now that Tesla has a much lower short interest, it's expected that its price will be higher regardless of whether there was a true squeeze or not.
Not exactly, given that Mate is not packaged with Debian.

But yes, if your distribution ships it, then it's a good choice.
Shortcuts to improve your bash & zsh productivity
i don't downvote, but referer never been a good protection. never
Because it's basically a small microwave, at 2.4Ghz. Its harmless from a distance, but if it's very near the antenna, it will toast the flower.
> This decreases the syntactic pain

use 5.018;
no warnings "experimental::lexical_subs";
use feature "lexical_subs";

Don't use perl experimental features. Not portable. Not well thought.

May break horribly.

"state sub creates a subroutine visible within the lexical scope in which it is declared. The subroutine is shared between calls to the outer sub."

So you should be using "state sub"

Or use python which has non-experimental "inner functions"
I have but not because of the background check. I went to a job interview once where the guy I was interviewing with offered me a job on the spot, and he would send the formal offer the next day. The next day I got an email saying that he had changed his mind.
Can you find a school that costs less that $12K per year? (In California, the CSU system is about half that for residents, I think, although UC is pretty close to that)

When you go, be prepared to learn about more than computers. Learn to write and speak. Learn History and Philosophy. Lean Psychology and Biology. Learn Art and Music. Learn how other people outside of the sciences think. Take in the abstractions that come with the Math classes that will go with your C.S. studies.

I also knew I was going to do C.S. before I started my freshman year at CSU, having spent some time looking into it before hand, but there is a lot to explore while you are there. (my family couldn't afford a computer in the late 70s / early 80s, so I didn't learn any programming until senior year of high school. I did manage to learn about binary, BCD, fixed precision arithmetic, simple encryption, hex math and a few other things in our grade school and middle school libraries, though, as well as wiring and soldering electronics at home) Use that as an advantage to make sure your class selections are progressing towards your major and degree.

To the author's point, though, when I went to CSU starting in 1983, it was about $500 / year in fees, going up to about $1000/yr when I finished in '88 (yeah, it's been a while). Now, for my university bound daughter, I'm looking at about $7000/yr in fees for CSU. Choose how and where you spend your money wisely
I thought this was interesting and very similar to the situation that's happening here.

http://witchofbontemps.wordpress.com/2013/05/05/an-artist-ha...
I figure we should just flag the article off of the front page then?
No, you're both adding too much bloat:

http://dwm.suckless.org/
If I understand you correctly, it would also prevent you from launching any codesigned application, including the OS-provided ones, since they would all be considered to have an invalid code signature.

So yeah, I guess in a certain light, a machine that can't launch apps is definitely secure.
If they use this method, I at the very least know that they’re using it and that my data is compromised.
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One suspicion I've always have is that high frequency radio waves can induce microcurrents in supercoiled DNA. It's been speculated by the Barton lab¹ that the base excision repair error-correction mechanism actively surveys DNA by injecting electrical current into the DNA and 'searching' for lesions which disrupt the conductivity of DNA. Some circumstantial evidence for this is that a major "base excision repair" component has a redox-active iron-sulfur cluster, and at least one study shows that the oxidation state of this iron-sulfur cluster can change how well it attaches to DNA.

The mantra that we always hear is that if the radiation isn't ionizing it's harmless. While this mechanism for worrying about non-ionizing radiation doesn't directly cause harm, it's not quite 'harmless' either.

This mechanism would render quite a few results not surprising. Biologically, there are many stages where not having DNA error correction could be more catastrophic than usual. It makes sense that seed germination is one of these; temporarily decreased sperm count in human males would be another.

The experiment to check this hypothesis is pretty obvious, and I'll probably be doing it sometime in the next few years, especially if I can get my nonprofit research org. up and running.

Edit: Footnote
[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacqueline_Barton
have not used it and am no crypto expert, but:

- it's based on ssh (your initial login is with ssh) so login is secure (as secure as ssh, probably)

- because ssh does much of the hard work, the smarts needed by mosh are reduced

- it's not a replacement for ssh so much as an improved interactive shell (so of course it doesn't do port forwarding etc)

- the crypto it does use sounds right, in their paper

- it only runs on the server when you are using it, and it runs as you (not root or some daemon), so if you're not connected then there's nothing for anyone to attack (but "connected" includes an open, "hanging" session)

- mit lends some cred.

in short, now that i have heard of it i will likely try it myself. the design makes a lot of sense to me - just feels like smart people were involved.
No worries. I appreciate your comments in this thread, even if we both disagree about the reach of the trademark.
"Every command is of the form Verb-Noun. Which means you can get off the ground really quickly, as there are only about 15 different verbs. This means you can often guess what you want, even for commands you've never used."

Sounds quite a lot like VMS' DCL, which is similarly intuitive, albeit overly verbose at times.
Footage from a camera that a grizzly bear tried to eat
Shilpa Agnihotri all set to replace Ankita Lokhande in Pavitra Rishta?
there's an English version:

http://www.dr.dk/Nyheder/Andre_sprog/English/2013/05/17/1309...
I have a web portfolio, I have three blogs, and post YouTube videos regularly for my blogs. I have commited code to large open source projects, and have released some other projects on my own.

I'm just not good at freelancing, I tried it for a short time and hated every single minute of it.

Thanks for your advice!
Honestly, AFAIK only PHP comes with a bigger laundry list.

The only python wart I know is no block scope

for i in [1,2,3]:
print i
print i # still visible

Only functions introduce lexical scope in Python/JS. JS has the ===, this, undefined

The only ruby wart for me is the difference between block/lambda/Proc and perly features.

Java/Go/Lua don't turn you into a omlette, with their language features. Nor do they leak memory in XS like perl.

C++ is a differnt story.

EDIT: Added JS
You can't iterate on products without launching them. Startup culture in Silicon Valley is all about failing fast.

The heart of science is running experiments, and if Google can't run experiments or pilots, it will fail to the innovators dilemma. Our democracy is similarly unable to run experiments to test out policy, which was another thing Larry talked about, as a result, we argue over the effects of policy without doing anything. States were supposed to be the laboratories of democracy, but even on the state level, hardly any experiments are conducted.

The idea that you should only launch services you plan to run forever is a plan for stagnation and death.
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My first drop shipping website. Feedback welcome.
How will you compare it with Momondo?
People say that about chemo today. However, until better things come about (targeted therapies are flowing now thanks to genetic and molecular biological advances), chemo remains an option for palliation, and rarely for cure.
That's exactly what I mean - maybe you lose too much in Windows systems. (Emacs isolates you more from the OS, of course.)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shinichi_Mochizuki

In the Youtube video, Ted Nelson says that his homepage is in English. I would argue that it is actually in Japanese, but with an English translation:

Japanese: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/

English: http://www.kurims.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~motizuki/top-english.html
I was reading the privacy policy and this caught my eye [0].

We never store the contents of your emails. Those simply pass through our
servers directly to your storage provider without ever touching our own hard
drives. The one exception to this currently is Skydrive. Their upload API does
not provide the options to allow us to stream directly to their servers. We will
change this when they fix their API. To support Skydrive we need to write a
temporary file to disk which is deleted immediately.

Is it unusual for Skydrive API not to support something like this.

[0] https://www.emailitin.com/privacy
I'm a fan of Ubuntu Unity and compiz, but everyone is going to yell at me. :(
If they know about the issues, and are proceeding with the background check, then they won't freak out upon encountering this in the background check.

In the meantime you might want to try sites like elance to see if you can pick up some side work to help pay the bills.
Yes, but michaelochurch was talking about something else.
Google's greatest strength is that the tech press don't give a rat's ass about how they behave as a company as long as folks get free stuff.
I had a similar experience interning at an internet marketing company. I definitely feel ya and hope the best for you. :)
Star Trek Into Darkness UI Development
Nobody knows for sure. At this point there's just a few experiments supporting the idea, no one has made any claims about a possible mechanism for action.

That doesn't mean it isn't true. I would not be especially surprised if 2.4GHz interacted in some special way with plant cells.
I wouldn't worry too much about a unpaid speeding ticket and low credit score. At least not in terms of the pending job offer. It is natural to feel nervous at this stage. The fact is, you really want the job and you see it as a big break. Hang in there and update this thread when you find out either way.
I'm only a couple paragraphs in, but there's already some pretty heavy bias here that's turning me off from continuing.

First off, the recommendation right off the bat is (paraphrased) "Companies should use Mercurial because it's easier to learn, which translates to saving time and money". Even if I accept that it's easier to learn, this completely ignores any consideration about interoperability with existing open source projects that you may or may not need, or the existence of any tools built around git or mercurial that you may want to use. The learning curve is but one factor that should be taken into consideration; it is not the only factor.

Secondly, the very first actual comparison between the two is highly disingenuous. It makes a claim about the documentation for `git commit` vs `hg commit` using what it says the summary of each command is. But that's not the summary. That's just the first line of the in-depth documentation. The actual summary of both commands, which is the very first real line of text you see in the help on both, is as follows:

git-commit - Record changes to the repository

pretty straightforward. And for `hg commit`:

commit the specified files or all outstanding changes

Also pretty straightforward. But these lines have been completely bypassed in order to provide a comparison that uses more technical language on the part of git and therefore is perhaps less understandable for a nontechnical user.

---

If we continue onwards, we find more absurd comparisons. There's a nice little ding against git here for actually listing its options in the synopsis, which is standard behavior for unix utilities, unlike hg which just says `[OPTION]...`. Sorry Robert, but git definitely wins that one.

And then he goes on to complain about terminology used in the description of `git checkout`, such as "working tree", even though these terms are well defined for git and are used consistently in all documentation (definitely a plus). But he doesn't mind terminology used in `hg update`, such as "working directory" or "changeset". You can't do an objective comparison between two VCS's learning curve unless you're willing to actually assume the user has no prior knowledge of the VCS. Big fail on Robert's part. And it's enough to make me stop reading here.
I frequently put my laptop on my chest when slouching in the sofa. Does it have the same harmful effects ?
> The iOS app, which is one of said attempts, is outright awful

It has a 4.5 out of 5 star rating in iTunes.
how is it extraordinary? Decreased sperm count from holding a cellphone in your pocket is a well-known phenomenon and has been replicated time after time.

Your only judgment about likelihood of this is based on your limited mechanistic explanation, biased by the scientific dogma that nonionizing radiation is harmless. If you look above, I posit a quite reasonable (and testable!) mechanism for this to occur.
Real men use fluxbox ;-)
This has become a joke, luckily we have xfce.
I just love having all my books searchable, I use http://1dollarscan.com/ quite regularly for this purpose. It keeps these things really simple, esp. because it still takes me with regular book scanners (the non fully-automated ones) about half an hour scanning a 300 page book.
Just a quick note -- if you don't want to make an exception for the certificate, you can go to the page over http.
You're selling yourself short. There's no reason you can't be making like $60k. If you're smart and know your stuff then you can pass interviews asking for 4 years experience. I've found that its rediculously easy to find a high paying job in this field.

I really should blog about this..
Many times people rightly ask "why on earth would a terrorist blow up a plane or building or make roadside bombs" ?

Their goal is exactly what we are now marching into: people fearing and loathing their overbearing governments. It's the subtle goal of the terrorist, to make authority behave so badly that the subjects do the work for the terrorists.

The really bad thing is I cannot imagine any near-future administration led by any known party behaving any better. It's always going to be the "stop us if you can" mentality.
After the third paragraph sits this comparison with the Tesla Model S. http://autos.nydailynews.com/compare/1525-1606-1613-3976/201...

The word 'disingenuous' comes to mind, as you can see they've deliberately started off with a Tesla Model S column containing nothing but red "x" marks suggesting it lacks every feature of every other car. Looks like a disguised smear campaign to me.
I agree that employers are way too nosy these days. Drug tests, background checks, credit score checks are personal; employers shouldn't be able to request them even. It should be taboo, like asking religion.

The need to reduce the risk of hiring a bad employee should not come at the expense of the privacy of all employees. The risk should be on the business to make the interview process tougher, to reach out to their connections and check the person's references, to follow their hired employees carefully to make sure they're not embezzling or muffing things up.
Very interesting. So it sounds like the problem is effecting a native experience with HTML5 (something, notably, that Windows 8 gives first-class support to). So then, given the HTML5 expertise and attention to detail, would you recommend PhoneGap? Or would you still advocate separate, native efforts? (Or something else?)

Also, do you really think adding media queries to the stylesheet(s) is "substantial relative to native tools"? Taken holistically, I would think that when you're targeting multiple platforms, you expend much greater effort building natively for each platform. Using those native UI tools to provide a good experience for variable aspect ratios actually entails knowledge of different languages, build tools, runtimes, standard libraries, third-pary library ecosystem, and best practices related to all the above.
The market cap does not inherently increase according to the dollar amount you raised.

Good point. It all comes down to the (perceived) return on investment that a company can get using its cash.

In cases where companies are selling stock to raise cash it's usually perceived that the company will be able to get a decent ROI. So in most cases where a company raises cash (through funding or sale of stock) their market value will stay constant or increase. This is Tesla's situation.

In contrast Apple/Google/Cisco have shown very little ability to get a high return on investment on any additional cash, because they already have so much. This ROI is perceived by investors to be lower than what the investors could get on their own, which is why the cash is discounted.
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Unlike Wei Dai, this guy does not seem to be a developer with a lot of code out there which looks basically like the Bitcoin code. (I am in a Bitcoin conference session right now so I can't watch the video to tear into it more specifically)
I objected to this statement at first, as frequency plays a big part in what electromagnetic radiation does, but then I discovered many microwave ovens do operate at 2.45GHz

Though, before you freak out that you are cooking your family, consider that a microwave oven outputs 600-1200 watts, while a WiFi antenna is typically 0.5-1 watt.
Fun fact: This post has no sources and no one has tried it yet but many people will still believe it.
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