skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So Struts 2.3.15.1 which has the fix for this was released 16 July 2013. In fairness, it may be that Apple, being as big a target as they are, had little time to react before they were penetrated. But this really goes to show that when you are informed of a "highly critical" remote code execution vulnerability in one of your public-facing applications, you need to drop what you are doing, take the service offline immediately and start the process of upgrading/patching. You may literally have only minutes.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/02/business/stand-up-desks-ga...

In sum: sitting all day is bad for you.
Canadian IT labour market is not so bad so you should profit by fact of moving here and have access to current pool and relatively lower wages then in SV.

Is should actually remove both of your pain points cost and qualified labor.

Start packing :-)
Please stop doing that. Our two options are not Statism and Somalia.
If it's truly a market demand, why not an ISP which provides such things as a USP?
Hi, realized about this post here in HN thanks to Piwik.

I am the author of the post Tony is linking at the top of his post, and I also use Piwik, where I saw my article was with 300+ visits instead of the 20+ it gets daily. :)

Piwik is great, and I use it to track visits to a few sites I own, all of them are some 6000 page views per day, so no real traffic.

Because my site is powered by Jekyll, I also use vanilla forums as commenting system, so no Disqus or Intense Debate either :)

Have a nice day, and thanks Tony for the link and credit .
The issue isn't whether it matters with what the intent the act was commited, but whether the contents of a persons mind matters when he is doing no crime at all. The obvious answer is pretty simple: not at all.
You're absolutely right, it is possible and even important to structure your experiments in such a way that they don't dominate your life. It's something that I've learned to do pretty effectively (and my chosen discipline makes it easier).

I think there are certainly organizational things that can be done to facilitate more reasonable working hours, and I've seen this done well in industrial settings. From pipelined experiments to working with automation, technicians, and teammates.

With all that said, it's not easy, especially as a junior faculty member with limited resources. Building a sane lab environment is 100% worth it IMO, but it is challenging and comes with a few perceived compromises.
Working under a Manager that is a loner
Nuclear-Powered Ships
Nuclear power is particularly suitable for vessels which need to be at sea for long periods without refuelling, or for powerful submarine propulsion.
Some 140 ships are powered by more than 180 small nuclear reactors and more than 12,000 reactor years of marine operation has been accumulated.
Most are submarines, but they range from icebreakers to aircraft carriers.
In future, constraints on fossil fuel use in transport may bring marine nuclear propulsion into more widespread use. So far, exaggerated fears about safety have caused political restriction on port access.
I use a picture of a painted, corrugated metal wall that a coder/photoblogger posted (as one of several offerings for mobile phone wallpaper). I've never gotten a notice like that.
Quick question; what would kind of person would you imagine would successfully secure funding from an angel/VC as a person trying to immigrate to Canada.

I guess one would have to have more than an idea and a MVP.

Also, any differences between Canada's angels and VCs than the impression one would get from Hacker News stories which is probably more U.S. focused?
I might add that OVH has a US arm as well - prices are competitive with Hetzner at least.
I've always thought this would be a good way to get a remote distributed team together to build a product (and culture).

Pick a country where its easy for everyone to travel in terms of visas plus low-cost lodging & food.

Can't wait to hear how the Morocco retreat goes.
Exactly. Even with most of my stuff in the Google cloud, the cognitive overhead of going from my Note 2 to my Nexus 7 to my "real" laptop and (recently) to my Chromebook is annoying. I'd much rather have one device set up with all my stuff that automagically turns into the form factor I want, when I want it.
Breaking Glass: Glassware Hackathon Aug 16-18
Yes, a cognitive bias can affect people on both sides. Someone can believe in anthropogenic global climate change but do so for weird reasons caused by a cognitive bias.

We should remember to gently remind them to check their biases.

Having said that, it's particularly annoying to have those biases pointed out while people ignore the strong biases caused by people being paid to obfuscate the information around climate change.
Showing a patent clerk prior art is much easier than showing prior art in a courtroom.

For instance at the minimum you need to bring in an expert witness to explain the prior art. Then you have to contend with the fact that they will bring in their own expert witness to explain how your example is bogus and you both get to cross-examine. etc. etc.
I'm just referring to this specific post from OVH (who I hadn't heard of until today). In reading it, I get the impression that they've handled the situation extremely professionally, and are setting a great example.
I've had one for about six months now, and while I was excited at first the novelty wore off.

While it's fun for assorted abstract interaction (manipulating graphics or playing music) it falls short as a replacement for using the mouse or keyboard for actual work.

One big hindrance for me is that I tend to work off a laptop, and finding a suitable place to rest the Leap is not always easy.

I tried mounting it to a stick and attaching it to the back of my laptop screen. Seems my head gave it trouble. :)

I have to retry some experiments with the current firmware, and when my production model arrives (possibly today) see if it behaves any better. I've managed to drop my dev unit a few times and there are some scratches on the screen that might be reducing effectiveness.
I don't suppose you can comment on the state/locale this was in? I have some personal connections to more rural/"redneck" areas, and I try to understand what makes those areas what they are.
What is the domain of $k$?
I'm not sure if the lack upward mobility in the South is a result of our economic landscape. It plausible that it's due to the lingering effects of segregation and the fact that the vast majority of our bottom 20% are African Americans while the majority of the top 20% are Caucasian. This map and a map of the distribution of the African American population in the South correspond so well it's a little disheartening.

http://www.slate.com/content/dam/slate/blogs/moneybox/2013/0...

http://prisca.me/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/Percent_Black-20...

http://prisca.me/political-plankton-the-left-behind/
Facebook has also invested in submarine fiber systems.

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

Would you use a Facebook ISP? How about a Facebook mobile operator? Facebook handset? Remember: Apple partnered with Motorola to make the Rokr device and Facebook partnered with HTC to make the 'First' device (both of which were flops), so it is so far-fetched?

Facebook makes no consumer hardware, but neither did Google until recently.
> I refuse to believe Canonical want to enter the hardware market

I don't know, from all the design hints Canonical's been dropping in the last few years, it seems like they really are trying to place themselves as direct competitors to apple, however naive/overambitious that may sound. So a play for hardware wouldn't surprise me that much. I think this stunt would make much less sense if it were purely to advance an android/firefox-style mobile os strategy.
I do think it is the case for certain high profile people (the mega super stars). Regardless, it's not important enough to warrant a drawn out debate here. Sorry to see you're getting such a binary reaction on this post. Like I said before, my concern with it is not aimed at you.
> The number of actually novel, non-obvious inventions in the software industry that maybe, in some universe, deserve a government-granted monopoly is, perhaps, two.

Any idea to which two he might be referring?
You would have to make the penalty too high for a small shop to afford to actually impact the big wigs' carpet bombing technique.

Similarly, what do you do about the "I was accidently too broad" cases, which are just as dangerous.
Moving up might have been true in 94 but what about now? How soon are you planning on retiring/dieing?
If i don't completely misunderstood you, there's Goal and Campaign tracking, see their docs about that:

http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-campaigns/

http://piwik.org/docs/tracking-goals-web-analytics/
You could use the same argument to ban gay pride parades as being gay isn't normal (only about 10% of people are gays), but guess what? The law isn't designed to get you arrested if you do something that others don't want to do and it shouldn't be.

So stop giving a shit about where other people put their genitalia, unless it was not consensual.
Here’s how the government justifies sucking up your phone records
I do go back to see my family and one teacher who had a big impact on me, but I'm not really good friends with anyone who stayed anymore. I came out to one of my oldest friends at Christmas, and they told me if I didn't leave my partner of 4 years and give up the gay lifestyle that I would burn in hell for eternity. This lecture was delivered in a crowded restaurant, with about a dozen people looking on.

At one point in college I wrote an editorial for my hometown paper and the minibio was something along the lines of "ABC High School Valedictorian, Class of 200X, and current MIT student"; as a result the comments were all incredibly nasty and irrelevant to the content of the article, along the lines of "Who does this liberal/atheist bitch think she is?" The only positive comments were from old people saying "Wow, I've never seen anybody under 30 submit a piece to the paper."

Truthfully, in person people are usually a lot more gentle (southern hospitality and all), but there's definitely an undercurrent of resentment after initial pleasantries. Sometimes it can be really awkward when I reciprocate their "It's so good to see you, and how are you doing?" and get a really depressing story back. (Got knocked up, laid off, foreclosed, etc.)

Even people in my own family can be hostile. It feels like I can never give anybody any advice, ever, because "they can't all live perfect lives" like me. It sucks.
In my Windows 7 partition I don't have Java or Adobe Reader. I only have the Chrome Flash plugin and my Steam games.

Tell me how the virus manages to stay out of Sysinternals Autoruns, and I will panic with you.

Otherwise, no antivirus is really necessary.
It's rare for some to share their earnings, it invites competition.
I think this is excellent marketing, if they get funded, they will prove that there is a market for this and it will make news for being the biggest crowd funded campaign ever. It will be all over the news and even people who have never heard of ubuntu will take a notice.
The Radio 4 series Analysis [1] had an interesting episode on this - still available as a podcast, title "Pornography: what do we know?"

I encourage you to give it a listen as it's an interesting program. To vastly simplify and summarise, the reporter's conclusion is the evidence to show it causes serious and direct harm is weak.

[1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/analysis
Nothing about massively parallel programming. Bummer.
>rape is one of the most offensive crimes imaginable.

No disagreement there, but I said "rape fantasy". Do you consider them the same thing?

>So the danger is on the Internet you can easily tailor your social circle to agree with you where such a thing would be impossible IRL.

What's that got to do with anything here in this thread? Are you suggesting that HN is an enclave of rapists and aspiring rapists?

>Romance novels as far as I am aware do not involve crimes.

I'm told they do offer depictions of crimes. What other crimes should the depiction of be illegal and censored on the internet?

>Neither, simply that their fantasy is one of rape, not pretending to rape.

Completely unproven. You may repeat it all you like but you've offered no evidence.

> If it's just a fantasy then it's creepy but ok,

If it is just a fantasy then it is by definition, not rape, not an intention to rape, or a crime.

> the danger is when an echo chamber is formed and no dissenting voice exists.

There is no "echo chamber" of rape advocates.

>No of course I don't believe that suppressing such material would prevent the behaviour.

Then what good can come of suppressing the material?

>The fact is that many rapists are mentally ill individuals. My hope is that careful management can reduce the exposure these individuals have to reinforcement.

Why? It is a terribly dangerous precedent to set for something that you just admitted would not prevent rape.

>The danger is not to 'previously ordinary people'. The danger is that people with predispositions can be convinced that they are right in their beliefs or feelings.

So, even though it would not prevent rape, you want the whole of society to have their internet censored and monitored so that a small fraction of mentally ill people cannot(assuming the censorship is effective) get from the internet what you perceive would be a validation of their supposed deviant beliefs?

> For example, that feminism is against the 'natural order'. That is quite a common one.

You want to also censor debate that disagrees with feminists?

> But you want to start stamping it out on the internet first?

>Not at all, if there existed such a place where people with rape fantasies could go to discuss them together.

Even if there was a place where women discussed their rape fantasies?

> I would support its closure and perhaps even the monitoring of its participants.

So you do, in fact want to start stamping out discussion of "deviant thought" on the internet. Should psychologists and therapists be required to report people who admit to having rape fantasies during counseling sessions, so the deviants can be monitored by their local police? Should they be marked with a tattoo (for everyone's safety)? Required to wear a tracking device?

> It's a fine line to walk but I take issue with the idea that it's either all or nothing. It isn't, responsible measures can be taken without silencing dissent or isolating the vulnerable.

Can you point to any past successes of censorship? Successful at either, preventing crime, or successful at not censoring unrelated content?
One thing I don't understand. Suppose a patent examiner does not ask on Ask Patents about a patent application, but I would nevertheless like to submit prior art.

How do I do so?
My guesses are garbage collection and Carmack's fast inverse square root.
Exercism.io: Crowd-sourced code reviews on daily practice problems
Everywhere First – Why mobile was the first, not the final step.
No. The DeepField data includes data from backbone routers (ie not just peering) and observations of GGC server traffic.
I honestly don't know what the job market is like for a CS PhD, so I can't rebut this statement. On the other hand, we interview a lot of PhD.s, and by and large they have little clue about how to provide value. They want to sketch out ideas in Matlab, and throw it over the wall to a bunch of programmers (which in the academic world are postdocs and grad students) to deal with the "implementation details". Many can't write a simple for loop.

That's sweeping, overstated, and unfair of me, but the job skills are quite different. Applied, directed research aimed at producing tangible and sell-able results is very hard, and by-and-large not what they do, at least based on who applies and interviews (which is of course a terribly biased and perhaps non-representative selection).
This might be a good place to ask this. My mind is mostly made up, due to the fact I believe that the energy sector has a much higher profit motive to distort the facts than the academic one, but in any case:

How is a layman to interpret this science? Heck, how are reasonably smart people who are not climatologists to interpret it? How are time-starved politicians who are responsible for the related policy to interpret it?
This time is a little bit different since google copy the API but they used their own devices to run the API, in this case he copied the API but still uses snapchat service so he must build their own snapchat server to avoid copyright protection i think.
Just how can this post be used against him?
buttonsdosomething-linkstakeyousomewhere.com is still free :P

(and so is shouldiregisteradoma.in)
All the mainstream ruby web frameworks require something like nginx in front of multiple instances of something like thin. You can use something like phusion, unicorn or rainbows that do forking for you instead of launching multiple processes by hand, but you still have to configure them and they're still running multiple app instances.

Go's built-in http library, and all the associated frameworks, run multi-threaded out of the box, and are fast enough that you don't need to put nginx or haproxy in front of them.

I love ruby, I've been building and deploying rails apps since 1.0, the ease of deploying go apps is precisely the type of thing the Ruby/Rails community cares a lot about: making developers' lives easier.
Did you / your client set it up as recommended for high-traffic sites?

http://piwik.org/docs/optimize/
It's available on multiple torrent sites. I just found my self a copy for my newly installed mountain lion.
Briefly and without detail? Really? Seen a zombie movie recently?
> I could lead off a similar article with "Why don't people realize that human races, to some degree, have different average intelligence stemming from genetics?" That would never be published in MotherJones

Because it is not a scientific statement.
"In some mid-west cities you can earn over $10,000/year/house after all taxes and expenses (including saving for long term expenses like roofs)."

Possibly true anecdote. However with the median family income for the country being $45K or so, thats implying the profit alone exceeds something like 25% of the median tenant gross income. So thats like a $1M CEO waterfront house not joe6pack's house.

Somewhat more realistically, you can expect your average family to spend maybe 1/3 their income on housing, and your profit will probably be a fraction of that, and you'll only have tenants a (large?) fraction of the time, so from a scalability standpoint to earn a median income you probably need to rent out one to two dozen houses, which rapidly becomes a full time job and is quite a capital investment. Also it becomes interesting to express various typical maintenance costs as "months of rental profit" rather than $. A furnace might be more than a years gross profit, yet only guaranteed for 20 years... times ten other major appliances all carefully value engineered to fall apart...

One worrisome part about long term prices is a Z percentile resident will more or less always live in Z percentile housing. Now the capital cost of that housing solely depends on about 1/3 the resident's income put toward the mortgage interest payment... and that rate was at multi-generational lows aka prices were at multi-generational highs. J6P can afford to pay the bank $2K/month means he can borrow how much, depending on interest rate? So what happens to your capital investment when median income inevitably continues its multi-generational decline, while at the same time, interest rates inevitably rise resulting in crashing sale prices? There are other cultural effects like retiring baby boomers wanting to downsize, kids having mortgage sized school loans therefore unable to afford a mortgage, etc.

Just saying, focusing on return OF capital is probably more important than return ON capital, when you're doing long term real estate investment. From a diversification stand point it can work if you have 100 or so houses, but its rough at a smaller scale.
In my experience, refunds on PayPal go back to your credit card. Am I wrong about this?
Hacked again?

https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=186902.msg1936161#ms...
The good part about America is that it's correlation, not causation. The bad part is we seem to be sliding down that hill.
One important distinction that I see missed here is that of an API vs. a service.

Snapchat provide a service, which I mentioned in another comment here that they have every right to enforce terms of service on, and restrict or allow usage as they see fit.

Snapchat also provide an API (which, in this scenario can also be considered a network protocol). This API can be used to access this service.

Now that I've had a look at the code, I've noticed that it includes the API keys which grant programs using this library the appropriate access permissions for the service. I think this is wrong, and that these keys should not be included in an open source library. The rest of the code however, is fine, as it simply implements a protocol.

If I were to develop something like this, I would leave out the API keys and have the user of the library fill them in. In principle, and as someone else has mentioned here, it would be possible to develop and operate your own service which uses this protocol/API. And I see nothing wrong with that.

Well, except of course that the whole notion of an app which presents information for a set period of time after which the user can no longer view it is inherently flawed, since eventually someone's going to figure out how to not erase/hide the information.
Can someone who is proficient in Angular explain to me why this many attributes are required on the form element itself:

<form ng-app="LoginApp" ng-controller="LoginController" ng-submit="login()">

This leads to my usual reaction to Angular: I'm sure they've got some things right, and I believe that data binding is the way to go, but holy shit that code is ugly and verbose. I've been using reactive.js [1] lately with Component [2] and its incredibly beautiful by contrast:

<form data-submit="login">

It uses data attributes, functions are handled for you automatically so you don't have to write the parens all the time, it will fallback to the model automatically if the view doesn't have a certain property. And the view is passed in so you don't need to specify what controller or "app" to search for, which seems way less tightly coupled.

Really it's one of the most beautiful libraries I've ever seen. So why would I ever want to use Angular?

I'm honestly curious since I've heard so many good things about Angular. It seems like they need a few more designers who can code on the team--people who care about the user experience part of API design.

[1]: https://github.com/component/reactive
[2]: https://github.com/component/component
I knew people who turned down full tuition scholarships to the flagship state university because they wanted to follow God and marry a nice boy from their church, or needed to stay home to help care and provide for members of their family.

Thing is, my success is not your success is not their success. If they lead happy and fulfilled lives in that way, is it wrong?
In a "white trash southern town" isn't $35,000 a year likely to be solidly middle class? Just because there aren't a lot of $60-90,000 jobs doesn't mean that there is no middle class in a given area.

I'm sure it broke a lot of teachers' hearts to see intelligent, gifted pupils throw away a better life to stay in a small town and get by on a HS diploma.
Maybe not a dime a dozen, but developer pay in Canada does seem to be considerably lower. Up to 50-60% lower, according to others in a recent HN discussion.
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You could withdraw the $600...

I do appreciate you pointing this difference out though, because it does mean that folks will have $600 (or $830) tied up in this from day 1 and not from day 31.
Northwest Florida.