skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No, I made no mention whatsoever about how long it took them to tell us. Did you even read my comment?

> That doesn't mean that Apple is some evil company trying to hide the fact that there was a breach.

I never said that they were trying to hide anything. Again, did you even read my comment?

> Obviously this means they would have kept it secret if it were at all possible.

Well yes, that is logical. A corporation would keep such a thing secret if they had a guarantee that there was no other way people could find out. There are good people working at Apple, but they are not Apple. A corporation doesn't have morals. It will not damage itself and threaten profits just for fuzzy feelings, any more than it will drop the price of the iPhone 6 to $20 because that would be a good thing for the poor.
I've been in a Wal Mart, K-mart, Target, Sears and other stores.

Only superficial differences between them.
Recently a 3D printed Jaw bone was surgically planted in one patient.

http://www.gizmag.com/first-3d-printed-lower-jaw-implant/213...

Medical field will have large number of applications.
If you take it merely as a question of caloric intake you're right. If you're talking about the cost of high-quality and nutrient-rich food, there's a long way to go. The massive subsidizing of junk food through corn subsidies does not help, but if you try getting those calories through vegetables and quality meat you may find it's out of reach for many people, and that does have an impact on intelligence and development, especially when those cheap calories lead to obesity, diabetes, and other complications.
I bought one such tablet couple of years back( Velocity Micro Cruz T301) for $69 on woot. The tablet was pretty much useless for daily use. Flashed AOSP and installed play store. Still useless, as most apps don't show up for that device. However, works okay as a cloud connected photoframe.
My tool, PuPHPet [0], can replace the need for this.

If you have a DigitalOcean account, you can have a 100% copy of your dev environment running on DO within 2 minutes of `$ vagrant up`... and as soon as you want it removed you would simply `$ vagrant destroy`!

[0] www.puphpet.com
Couldn't you also do something like this? Store each user's key, transformed in such a way that you could get it back only if you have the password. Serve the key to the user's session on login (maybe -- depending on how long you store the session, you may want to require password reentry to initiate any charges). Encrypt all sensitive data with the user's key, such that only that logged in user can read it back.

The major drawback would be the same as the benefit. Since you can't know your users' CC numbers, you also can't make recurring charges.

Pipe-dream solution to that -- you should be able to get a token from your payment provider that authorizes you and only you to charge the CC. Should that token leak, you barely even need to revoke it. It can't be used by anyone else, because you need both the token and your company's api secret to charge anything, and even then, all they can do is send (easily refundable) money to your account.
PG posted a 3D printer poll about 3 months ago.

Poll: Do you have a 3d printer?

Yes, I already have one.

245 points

I don't have one now but I may buy one.

1767 points

I'll probably never buy one.

891 points

Thread: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5640988
I spend a fair amount of time on HN (probably too much) and write lots of comments here and enjoy a pretty good amount of upvotes and I'm a big fan of being normal and not much of a limelight seeker. I'm also basically a socialist and roll my eyes at most calls for deregulation of (whatever).

I'm not sure you can lump all of HN so cleanly into one bucket.
Search his name on YouTube and he paints in a few interviews. Seems legit. I think he still needs 10k hours to master the art, but due to natural talent he skipped the first few thousand hours.

If he keeps up with this, imagine how good he will be when he's more mature.
This has been argument since viruses became well known, they've Turing complete since the beginning:

"Much like an infection, a well-intended but badly designed program to stop viruses can run amok, knocking out thousands of computers or destroying vast amounts of data. Indeed, one program intended to defeat a known virus has destroyed data on personal computers used by businesses and the Government in the United States."

http://www.nytimes.com/1989/10/07/business/computer-virus-cu...
That's strange since the rubber on my Nexus 4 charger is very tacky, almost too sticky. If your phone is slipping then try cleaning the dust off the rubber on the charger to make it tacky again.
Provocative title, but in the end no message.

Reminds me of watching the series "Lost", where the expectation was set from the beginning that there was a logical, rational explanation for the whole thing. In the end they producers basically lied, and it ended up being a big shaggy dog story.

If anyone can extract the "brilliant reasons for living" from that article, please post them here. I don't expect much of a list.
Costco is not in the same business as WalMart. They have an order of magnitude fewer SKU's. They deal with a completely different clientèle, and the profit for each item is much higher, so their labor costs are lower.

You can not compare WalMart and Costco.
Costco's median customer lives in a $75K household. Poor people certainly don't have the same purchasing power to buy high-end products in bulk.
Was that also in the 80's? I'm in Prague now and I don't think anyone sees McD as special. Starbucks seems to have that appeal, although I find Costa Coffee much better. But I spent May in Kyiv and they love McDonald's there. I was told it's seen as a very good deal.
Apple's Development Center breached by hackers
We completely agree. Please open a ticket to receive an SLA credit.
I haven't tested it fully but what if https is running on different port i.e. 443 (It is possible.)

I believe marking cookie secure will only save you from MITM attack, not from attacks where ports are shared in a domain. i.e. cookies will be sent over https only but to a compromised port.
The Private Life of Eric Schmidt
> why do a lot of people on HN find it so offensive?

They are probably not offended by job offers at all, but rather recruiter emails that are not truly offers but invitations to apply
Customers of all sizes were affected. We are very sorry for this and are working extremely hard to ensure that our network is completely stable moving forward so that all customers experience 100% uptime.
> If there is no compensating benefit, then IMO a parent should not incur any avoidable risk to a child.

Wait, what? Are you actually serious? Not joking? I'm sorry to ask but I have a problem understanding people and I can never tell when people are pulling my leg or not. I almost never spot satire. So, if you're engaging in some devastatingly witty attack on something or other then I'm afraid it's gone right over my head.

> There must always be a reason for incurring the risk, and it must be a stronger reason than "well, I like drinking". If the mother's stress level would really be increased that much by not drinking, then that could be a valid reason.

We don't know if a pregnant woman drinking a couple of units a week is doing any harm to her child. Thus, the advice is to avoid all alcohol. But this has some disadvantages. It makes people ignore much clearer health advice. (This thread has someone suggesting that the drinking advice is similar to the smoking advice, as an example.) It also causes a great deal of stress to women. Some women may drink their regular amounts and then be very distressed when they discover that they are pregnant and have been drinking during the pregnancy. For most women the stress they experience is more harmful than the alcohol.

> (Though I would tend to be skeptical of such a claim; is abstaining from alcohol, for a person who is not an alcoholic, really that hard, hard enough to outweigh the risk to the child's health?)

Wow. That sentence bundles up so many misunderstandings of pregnancy and societal pressures and all kinds of stuff. It's too hard to respond to.

> There must always be a reason for incurring the risk

I'm quoting this part again because it's the core of your message, and it's very very wrong.

You assume that we know what the risks are, and that we can communicate those risks to pregnant women, and that they have power to control the risks they're exposed to.

Women undergo a bunch of prenatal checks. To get to those checks they have to use some form of transport. Are the risks of travel outweighed by the benefits of the prenatal checks?

What about different types of scans? There's no point in the 3d / 4d scans, and there's a possible risk of harm, so should the scans be banned? Or should we tell women not to get them? And who should we be criticising, the firms making money by pushing a possibly harmful but pointless scan to vulnerable women, or the women who get these scans?

(http://www.nhs.uk/news/2010/02February/Pages/Warning-over-so...)
We know it is very frustrating and completely agree with you. We are working hard so this won't happen again.
It's an untested platform. The physical design is not amazing. It doesn't have the default Android Google experience. Expensive compared to the Nexus 4.
What "business ethics" are you referring to?
John Green's Crash Course series of YouTube videos are somewhat related and entertaining. https://www.youtube.com/user/crashcourse
We're sorry you feel this way and totally respect your opinion. Any additional feedback on why would be helpful. Thanks!
Yes, it is a very troublesome and magnificent curiosity, but realizing the futility of thinking that "I NEED to know my purpose in this universe" takes out the troublesome part of that curiosity. The thing is, even if I waste my whole life in search for an answer, and still discover nothing, then also, I'd have played out my part as a useless prick in the universe (Read up stuff about free will, there is a paradox or something). I'm much more happier doing things that intrigue me push me, fascinate me, and overall, are in sync with the "biological system" that my consciousness developed on, than spend my time pondering on my "purpose".

Rest of this stuff is revealed when you actually do something, and push your limits in it, the patterns that are revealed, and how the system based abstractions and patterns really transcend various fields of knowledge and practice.

Anyways. This is what I think, and since I am not rich or haven't "made it big", , I won't be taken seriously by many people. And when, and if, I get rich, people would try to "dig my brain", so to say. But I don't think a lot of this stuff is "portable". Everyone needs to realize this type of stuff on their own, come up with their own explanation.
"I'm not really wrong on that score"

Well, you are though. You said that his work has no market outside of art fairs, and that is patently untrue as he is selling them for a lot of money and not through art fairs.

You also claimed that it is easy to tell a painting's quality from low resolution photographs and that these paintings are "typical Bob Ross stuff" when they are in a very different style from Bob Ross.

Basically, as far as I can tell, you either want an argument out of this, or are merely pissed off that some kid has got rich from paintings you don't personally appreciate after only seeing photos of them on the net.
link to the "Snow Fall" article: http://www.nytimes.com/projects/2012/snow-fall/
It was down last night though, possibly related?
Adam,

My wife's uncle made the original Admiral Ackbar costume for the movies. If you wanted a costume, you could have just emailed me and I would have put you in touch with him.

Regards,
shoe
Jeez people, a company identifies a hack attempt, stops it, and makes sure it never happens again. How often do you hear that one? Most companies don't even tell you anything happened and if they are forced to, they don't even admit anything bad happened (we only exposed 80,000,000 credit cards, no biggie).

If my employer suffered this I doubt they'd even tell the employees.

What do all of us do when we find a security issue?
The Awesomest 7-Year Postdoc
There are lots of moving parts in a database, and lots of places one can hide back doors for later access -- triggers, etc. If you're not sure how hard you got owned, nuking, paving, and auditing is usually the best course of action.
This was mostly well done and really makes me want to take a closer look at Postgres. But a cheap shot came on the last one, "Readers and writers block each other". Both locking and snapshots are implemented in SQL Server, and you can pick your poison. Is Postgres or Oracle better? Is either method more efficiently or intelligently implemented in either of those systems than in SQL Server?
You shouldn't get your news from corporate media. Corporate media don't like unions because they fight for living wages which cut profits from the few who benefit from them.
I didn't read this before. Training to suspend the influence of culture makes sense, if that's what happens. That sounds like Japanese pilots are trained such that Japanese pilot culture overrides Japanese national culture. Best explanation I've heard for the differences in training.

Off-topic, there's no space between the last word of a question and the question mark. Also, you're being overly aggressive in many of your replies about this topic.
I don't think social programs are all that great. Parks are slated for closure, public schools as an aggregate are below average, and public higher ed is getting just a tiny bit expensive http://www.thenation.com/blog/166898/harvard-now-cheaper-san...

I've heard prisons and state employee benefits are superb, but have had no chance to verify either claim.
Woody Allen already covered this in a scene in Take The Money And Run.
Quite a few companies/ startups are using Dwolla, check out the 'Startup Crush' posts on their blog (http://blog.dwolla.com/category/startup-crush/).
It already is though, isn't it? As zanny points out (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6081020) we already make heavy use of libraries and software packages (I don't see much difference between an embedded webserver library and hosting in a standalone webserver). Even discounting components such as the OS I'll blindly assert that nearly every significant program created today has a runtime path that is 95% 3rd party components, if you were somehow able to measure the LOC passed through.

Of course LOC != 'contributed value'. Much as people don't assemble in thousands to see a jukebox progress through a playlist but do for the experience created by a skilled DJ, the last 5% is the most significant 5% in programming (and perhaps, all creative endeavors)
From what Mozilla mentioned before, it'll just be userspace updates that'll follow this rapid release cycle.
The underlying OS will only receive updates every major point i.e. the next one will be 2.0
> there’s a bias to languages such as Python or Clojure, which make data easier to manipulate

I assume its the libraries available for Python (Pandas, NumPy, Blaze) that are the basis for this quote. Is it also the case for Clojure (as compared to other FP languages)?
The guest checkout feature is available to all. :)
> don't succumb to the laziness of

No, see, that's what I was questioning. Why is using NULLs easier, such that it's the "lazy" thing you can "succumb" to? UI is fundamentally about incentives--making good things easy to do, and bad things hard--and an API, or a protocol, is a UI for programmers.

Sure, instead of a NULLable column, you can have a pair of columns, one with an ENUM type to represent the sum-typeclass's type-instance, and the other to represent a value of that type. But that sounds like you're working at the wrong level of abstraction, fundamentally.

You're using an RBDMS because it lets you speak in terms of tuples, relations, projections, and other Relational Algebra concepts, rather than in terms of keys, values, and indexes. I can see doing the pair-of-columns thing in a NoSQL store--but why did the designers of SQL let this implementation detail infect my RDBMS?

It's kind of funny, actually. I see developers treating their RDBMS as a dumb object store... but then implementing a "domain model" layer right beyond it, basically creating a "model server" accessible over an API, which enforces the business domain constraints on the objects it sends and receives. In other words, they've Greenspunned an RDBMS of their own in all but name, with its own custom protocol and half-assed validation logic. I feel like a large reason for this is that current RDBMSes just aren't up to representing the types and constraints and relations that developers need to express, so they put up their noses and say "business logic doesn't belong in the database!" ...and proceed to build a database for their business logic to reside in.

It's times like this when I almost get an urge to develop my own RDBMS that actually keeps the Relational-Algebra abstraction clean. No concept of a "table" or a "view" or an "index"; just relations between projections of an infinite theoretical tuplespace, where tables are created to store data that can't be inferred from an existing view, and garbage-collected behind the scenes when their values are no longer referenced by any projection. Indexes created gradually when a tracing-JIT-like query planner notices repeated access patterns. Strong, structural, parametric type declarations on every piece of data. Constraints that actually allow you to express things like "a user-to-user 'friend' relationship must be symmetric", rather than just being a weak declarative dress over triggers. Etc.

Would anyone be interested in such a beast?
I have trouble going to farmers markets. Wife works in a bay area hospital and takes care of many Hispanic patients, a large majority do farm labor. I think working for Walmart would be a major upgrade vs what they get in return for working on the farm. However I do not know that all the farms that come to farmers markets use the same kind of employment or that is only for the mega corp farms selling to the rest of the country...

I know organic food is already "expensive" but it seems like they should do something to increase these peoples quality of life
> Amazon

That's not much of an improvement.
I didn't mean this kid's paintings don't have a market outside of art fairs, I meant that is where this sort of impressionist painting is usually found when produced by someone else.
Yeah, you're considered a money transmitter under FinCEN. There are regulations, look up the memo from FinCEN.
The UX problem with PGP is that you can't tell if some random has PGP before you send an email to them without manual effort. The amount of friction required is too much and leads to little adoption.

With OTR, if the person is 'online' you can just initiate a convo with them and passively have OTR enabled if the other client supports it. You also have forward secrecy, a critical feature PGP lacks.

PGP UX is horrible and still stuck in the 90s! It's great for people who need it and it was really necessary to be invented. But something like OTR is the real successor.
Interesting. I've noticed a lot of differences between the subjective experiences of childhood and adulthood. Part of it could be thought of as less intensity, but I think it has more to do with gaining the ability to accept things as they are. I also seem to have gained greater capacity for empathy. Frighteningly, I've also developed more discomfort with the unfamiliar.
I understand why there are a bunch of these devices, but I don't understand why the manfs don't release more information about them.

I'm finding it hard to work out exactly what processor is used in this device.

Setting up a wiki with minimal information, and then seeding the hacker community with a few devices, would probably make one brand stand out over all the other minimal Android tablets there are.

A device that could be rooted, could have a Linux installed, or could have a different Android version installed, would be interesting for hackers. The manfs don't have to offer any support.
IQ is not an objective measure of innate intelligence, hence it creeps up over time:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flynn_effect

Since this effect is so rapid (~100 years), it is unlikely be due to genetic changes. It's pretty clear that developmental and social factors are playing into IQ test results. Both of these are negatively affected by being born into a low income family (less access to food, learning materials, mentors, other IQ individuals, etc.).
Economists don't like protectionist unions. Who determines a "living wage"? Should someone working as a cashier in Walmart be able to afford an apartment in Manhattan?
The $45 tablet is a non-Google Play device. So not that impressive.

This one is $59, and shows a screen shot with Google Play, GMail, etc. on it: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Ematic-7-Tablet-with-4GB-Memory-an...

A real Google logo device for $59 would be pretty astounding.
What makes you think it is drastically smarter about resource usage? I've noticed it slows down a lot of things considerably. It also has a history of causing DCP latency problems on some hardware/drivers. I wouldn't say it is miles worse than anything else but not noticeably better than the other good ones.
Bill requiring warrants for email searches nears Senate vote
Which are valid problems. See the related informal fallacy, "Appeal to worse problems": http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Appeal_to_worse_problems
Hacking with a Hacker
"As a child star, Coogan earned an estimated $3 to $4 million ($48 million to $65 million adjusted for 2012 dollars), but the money was spent by his mother and stepfather, Arthur Bernstein, on extravagances such as fur coats, diamonds, and expensive cars. Coogan's mother and stepfather claimed Jackie was having fun and thought he was playing. She stated, "No promises were ever made to give Jackie anything. Every dollar a kid earns before he is 21 belongs to his parents. Jackie will not get a cent of his earnings",[5] and claimed that "Jackie was a bad boy.""

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jackie_Coogan
Absolutely brilliant. I've been putting off doing this type of setup myself for ages, can't wait to play with it!
Wimbledon: Game, Sexism, Match
If Wal-Mart had to pay a "living wage" (and who defines what that is? Certainly not the worker.) they would not exist. You may think that's good, or bad, but most of the Wal-Mart jobs would not exist at all if they were forced to pay an artificially high wage to their employees.
sounds more like an "iPod touch" than a tablet per se but I approve of the clever strategy :)
Sounds all well and good.

Back in the win98 and win2k years, we had a nice wired/wireless network. I had a shared server that served as a repository of all the movies, music, and games I collected.

I also taught my sister about piracy, emulation, and other things. She also had her own good machine, with unrestricted net access at 9 yrs old. The first game she had loaded on was duke nukem 3d. (yes, my dad was 'interesting')

Her big games were pokemon. And she owned the cartridges, bu waned to play with rom hacking and the like... So she looked for Pokemon yellow, and found one. Pokemon_yellow.zip. Inside was the rom and an exe. When she ran it, the virus hopped over to every executable that was on the shared server.

I'm pretty sure I could have fixed them, because it only seemed more of a bacteria than something nefarious. It just annoyed the hell out of me, because I had my games directory mounted via samba from this server.

If your computer is a bastion of alone-ness, you need not fear. But the second you include a trust net, you can be done in.

Now, I'm a killall wineserver away from refusing an 'infection'.