skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
True, but there are multiple openings available. I guess they're probably already executing in parallel though. When I looked earlier the DBC average was 17 seconds... with browser form fillers you could beat that!
N.J. wins $1M settlement from online ad company for violating web user privacy
Do you believe your moral compass to be perfect, or is it flawed?

In the event that you think it's flawed, how do you recommend making sure your flawed moral compass isn't going to cause something immoral to happen?
Show HN: My latest work for Google Nexus 7 Surround Sound
This is incredibly good news. CouchDB is a fantastic database that doesn't get the attention it deserves. The best part about this merge is that CouchDB will get the scaling benefits that BigCouch offers. The load balancing and clustering of BigCouch is going to be incredibly useful for scaling CouchDB.
Serving customers who aren't military or from military families?
Powering a jQuery Plugin Repo With a CDN
the idea that NASDAQ might've been hacked using an SQL injection is pretty scary, as it's a pretty trivial attack to protect against in most cases (mysql_real_escape_string?) - is security in stock exchanges really so lax?
Interesting, I remember reading that the hacker (jsz) who helped Kevin Mitnick back in the day with the IP spoofing attack against Shimomura's computer was from Israel as well.
I think that some breeds of cow, at least, would be able to survive a human extinction event. You would see rapid adaptation in the population, though, so maybe we could rephrase your observation to: "If we become extinct for whatever reason, you will not find recognizable chickens and cows roaming about."
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Agreed. Aliases are good if used as a learning aid, but eventually you need to wean yourself off them if you're serious about sysadmin/devops.
I've never tried it, but something like this should work:

http://www.raspberrypi.org/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=36&t=47029

It's a similar process to setting up Netatalk on any Ubuntu server to get Apple computers to recognize a Linux server as a Time Machine endpoint.
Google ends free Netflix/Chromecast promotion due to ‘overwhelming demand’
Congratulations guys, it is an awesome news.
I really love your mission and you have done wonderful job until now. Keep going like that!

Wish you luck for the future!
Amazon.com's business has always been marvelous to use as a consumer, but more puzzling as an investor. Their deferring of making money from operations has been the opposite of Apple's approach. I wonder: will Amazon some day turn on the spigot and decide to start making real money, and, if so, how will their company culture and outlook change if they ever do?
If enough companies had the courage to just shut down their networks when the NSA threatened them, we wouldn't have this problem. But the dollar outranks morals, I understand.
One approach would be for offeror to encode the same "you're hired" message multiple times, using standard salary numbers for the encryption keys, and randomizing their order. If applicant is able to decode one of the encrypted messages with his desired standard salary (and somehow barred from trying multiple times with different numbers) then there'd be no third party necessary.

Preventing multiple attempts would be the challenge with this approach. Alternatively, the "you're hired" message could itself be encrypted such that the applicant could send it back to the offeror to be decrypted. The challenge there is verifying the offeror didn't encode "$50,000" instead of "pay within range". The offeror encoding "no" and "yes" values and sending those two values (but not saying which is which) ahead of time would mitigate that problem, but again not if the applicant is able to run multiple numbers through the system (noting at which point the value changes).

The best solution would be an algorithmic third party search engine which doesn't even mention the job or candidate to each other if there's no overlap in salary, taking less tangible things like years of work experience, education into account.
in this case it was supposedly done using SQL injections: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL_injection#Incorrectly_filte...
Very true. I think the Internet accelerates superstar effects to the detriment of the economy as a whole. I hope Alibaba/Taobao decides to leave the Yangtze sooner rather than later.

http://pandodaily.com/2012/08/30/unleashing-the-crocodile-wh...
Hah!

Reminds me of "Tom" from 50 first dates. Thanks for the good laugh this afternoon.
I worked on both databases, they have entirely different advantages / disadvantages and use cases, none of the OP really apply to couchbase.
> but all they really could do is incur losses for the customer.

If they could inject "incorrect" trades, could they put themselves on the other side of those trades via normal means and so benefit from such losses?
The Button Kings of Silicon Valley
Huh, I thought Jon Wheatley (Founder of Dailybooth, YC) owned it (lob.com) for a long time (April 2012), it was listed on his website for a while and a landing page for something he was working on for well over a year. I assumed that they bought it from him (with YC "buddy" pricing).
World will use 56 percent more energy by 2040, most of it fossil fuels
I think my problem doesn't have to do with how hard the job is or not, but with the quality and honesty of the communications.

A lot of the startup CEOs I have seen tend to have a "this is my company" sort of feeling. But by expressing that feeling to their employees, they crowd their employee's feelings in this regard. Everyone who works for a startup wants to feel like they OWN the company. That's why you join one. For that feeling of ownership.

But when a CEO talks with these "sole ownership" feelings, people GET it. Also if a CEO uses evasive or trivializing language or behavior about the state of the company, people's internal sense of dissonance causes a rift of trust AT THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME.

I have seen this pattern play out a few times as the "non CEO" position. Yeah it's a hard job, but if you didn't want the challenge of a lifetime, why take the job?
The http://vimeo.com/59124303 link is illuminating, as is the WAI-ARIA specification from http://www.w3.org/TR/wai-aria/.
Stealing money from global financial institutions is only allowed when you are a banker.
> "Linux becomes much more enjoyable when you can type `untar <file>` instead of remembering the magical incantation `sudo tar -xzvf <file>`."

I love aliases as well, but I remember the particular command for tar extraction (tar xzf) via the mnemonic "eXtract Zee Files" said with an overly stereotypical German accent in my mind. Silly, I know, but I have never forgotten it since.
All due respect, the Bill of Rights is there specifically to prevent us from the evils that "most people" would be okay with.
This type of problem is called secure two party computation. Tasty looks like a good framework to use for this kind of problems.

http://code.google.com/p/tastyproject/
Robotic Arm Controlled in Free Space by Leap Motion
Keep in mind this includes an 4 sheets of B&W, the envelope, packaging, and labor costs associated with stuffing it into an letter, addressing it, and then mailing it. So $0.45 for one sheet is not exactly correct.
As some close watchers of Disqus may already know, Disqus is now a fully free service. For everybody, for any site, of any size.

This is the bigger news. But which features from the paid were now made available to the free users? Analytics/SSO?

As an aside, Facebook, Google, and LiveFyre really, really dropped the ball with their own commenting systems. Disqus really takes the crown.
The "Hacker News discussion" text at the bottom was meant to be a link to the article on HN - whoops! We didn't assume we'd make the front page (super happy we did for a bit!) but I like to use HN as our centralized discussion forum since we don't have a commenting system of our own.
I tried to register but it seems that one has to have a UK address for that. That's a pity...
Web Startup Directory.
They are not charging extra for the app so it's not "to make a few extra bucks."

They are attempting to do the best job they can for their customers. Depriving your customers because you want to take a principled stand by taking steps that is almostly completely guaranteed to not work just makes no business sense.
Wow, that was quite the steep function. My guaranteed date was 26 July and it shipped a couple hours after I placed the order.
Debian and related distros, such as Ubuntu, usually separate open source and proprietary packages into different repositories. If you only want open-source licensed software, just deselect the proprietary repositories.

Now, the only problem with that is that the Linux kernel itself has some binary blobs, pre-compiled code where the original source code is unknown, so that makes any Linux distro using the standard kernel less than free by the FSF's standards. There is a Linux-libre kernel which replaces all the binary blobs, but so far only a few distros use it.
Its also more dangerous in the US. Since the majority of major web apps are hosted in the US, if you're in the US it is easy for the app's owners to go after you legally. It gets much more complicated if you're in another country. For example, if weev had been in eastern Europe, it would make it much more difficult for ATT to go after him.
Please excuse me for even asking, did you propagate your bump-the-pointer greedy allocator to the lexer (that is, what's behind "mem.malloc" in the code you linked to)? And do you have some idea why would lexing otherwise take so much time for you to notice?
The only thing Couchbase has in common with CouchDB is the name, and some of the same people are involved. If you like CouchDB, there's no particular reason you'd like Couchbase (and visa versa).
> If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck, then its a duck. That's the best we can do for now, whether mice or men.

That doesn't sound particularly scientific. Sometimes a bit of precision with language is nice.
What's the use case for this? I guess it'd be more useful the deeper you get into their pricing structure such as with photos or business cards; but it doesn't seem like its priced all that competitively with established services.

If this were a price-attractive campaign mailing tool...well then we're in a whole different ballgame. I could see Scrooge McDuck vaults of money being made in disrupting the last true bastion of postal mailing services.
Kickstarter:  A movie on the coming singularity
The new wibble-wobble of the bubbles distract me a lot. Ask yourself, "What is Disqus?"

Found by scrolling down:

"If you’re passionate about writing and sharing, Disqus helps you build a community of active readers and commenters."

So...what is it? Compare that to the previous version that immediately placed it front and center: "We're a comment widget you can easily drop into any site."

I wonder if this will hurt their adoption numbers.
I signed up for this last weekend, and had great followups with Harry Zhang, one of the co-founders. Super impressed with the customer service / support.
When resources are constrained. You may not like the language, but the problems you can solve with it are great: high frequency trading, music and video production, photoshop, a web browser, anything on a smartphone.

Which isn't to say that it's not possible to create a better language than C++ for those problems. They just haven't managed it yet (although Rust looks promising).
It's up at https://github.com/firebase/angularFire/tree/gh-pages/exampl...
People don't often die from terrorism. He is much more likley to die from diabities, heart disease, cars or a gun shot.

More toddlers with guns have killed Americans this year than terrorist have.

If we are trying to save lives, worrying about terrorism is a waste of money.
If they're offering it for free now, how are they making money to support their massive infrastructure? Are they selling personal information?
My problem is that if I charge daily I feel obliged to work at least 8 hours a day, which frankly I often don't manage. Some days I waste too much time on the internet which I don't want to bill, or I am too tired (unfortunately my sleep is unreliable).

It's a bit lame, I'd like to be a better person who can just do a normal 8 hour day, but so far I have always failed. One reason I like freelancing is because I can only charge for the hours I actually work. It's also a major reason employment is not for me.
I might be paranoid, but I've always wondered if these kinds of issues are why the US seems to be decades behind other first world countries in telecommunications and broadband access and why these services are so obscenely expensive.
I know the article is referring to b2b SaaS products, but we employed a version of this idea on Http://storifi.it

We already knew that people wouldn't know what the game was about, so we sat with each user individually and talked them through the onboard process. We learned alot of things we would not have otherwise spotted and then capitalised on that learning. The web app was just an mvp, but we incorporated all the learning into our mobile app which resulted in a 100% activation rate.

Next step for us is now to finish off the app and concentrate on user engagement for which we'll be following a similar philosophy.
Vtune and Zoom need to be mentioned, although they are not free. Vtune is even able to do power consumption analysis these days.
Would love to see your angular-firebase module (if you're willing to share it) - it would be great to integrate some of it back into the original module!
I like this approach; the other reason it is good is that when the client sees the proposal, they get choices. They can see the breakdown, see which feature costs how much, and customize how they want it.

This involves the client more, making it more of their project, and also it changes the dialogue from "Should I hire them?" to "Which features should I hire them to do?"

The only thing I would change is that your expected time per feature times your hourly rate is the floor cost of each feature. Be aware of your costs but do not charge solely based on them. If feature X is a huge win for the client but is easy for you (due to your years of experience, built-up tech-stack, or home-built tools), don't give it away for peanuts!
The author also mentions "Although it may seem like the company is saving money — because you don’t have to provide temporary workers with medical coverage or paid vacation time."

I just want to point out that contractors actually cost the company MORE money than employees, on average around $30k/year per worker. I think the main reason contractors are used is because many full-time employees "settle" somewhat and don't have the same drive that contractors do (i.e., contractors feel they have more to prove and are thus more productive). Also, contractors can be fired without any consequences, which is not to be said about employees. But I don't think cost is the main driver here.
Firebase only stores data at the moment, to store the static assets, you'll still need a service like S3, Github Pages, Site44, or Harp.IO.
The article says that they used the injection to get hashed login credentials. Did they then use a rainbow table to reverse the hashing?
It's all very googleable, check out the citations section of the related wiki pages for specific books. Most of what I know about the process comes from primary research made possible by living in DC and spending too much time in hill bars listening to windbags bloviate on their own importance.

Also fictional TV. Because that's a great place to learn things about your government, right?
But the mice had this "on-switch" installed, right? You can't just flash the light at any mouse to scare them...That amnesia light from Men in Black hopefully is not in the making...
I wish there was a website where people could sign up to volunteer for experimentation. They could make (simplified) health data available, and tick what kinds of things they'd like to do.

Until then, here's a website that'll let you experience a common memory error. (http://psych.hanover.edu/JavaTest/CLE/Cognition/Cognition/fa...)

There are probably more experiments you can do on yourself to induce a false memory.
That would be truly insane, I refuse to believe that's the case!

My best hypothesis is that they've upgraded all their software/frameworks which haven't been updated in 6 months, and have found a boatload of bugs related to running the old code on the updated software. I can't think why else they'd be doing that would take so long, and I sincerely hope there is no significant rewriting going on.
At the end, this article mentions Atul Gawande's book, The Checklist Manifesto (although the title is mangled in the link). Gawande's 2007 New Yorker article that was the basis for that book can be read here:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/12/10/071210fa_fact_...
>a) I dislike giving so much information up...

How do you ever make a credit card transaction online without giving up your name and address? That's pretty much standard every time fiat currency changes hands on the internet.
Vtune is even able to do power consumption analysis these days.

...on AMD machines, too? (Not to mention mobile development on ARM.)
I find at Amazon that the close you are to the core business, the better you get treated. The engineers seem to be very well compensated and get benefits and shit because they make the company what it is. I hate to break it to you, but the people who empty the bins are not essential. They should still be treated with the same respect as any human being, but you are absolutely smoking rocks if you think that Amazon has any incentive to give a shit about them.
All that stuff gets painful once you are used to it. Frankly since I found Route66 I'm never going back.

Edit: Err, Cloud66
Embedded Content and iframe Security
It feels like it's been that way for at least a couple of decades. In the early years of PC viruses it seemed like all the innovation was coming out of eastern Europe.
What's the frequency? For Palestinians, not 3G
I agree with you there, and was thinking about that after making the comment. Any thoughts on how they could have gotten that across equally effectively without explicitly saying, "We're Google Analytics, except beautiful?" Honestly, maybe this particular case was fine, and they're not to be blamed for the fact that the cliche rubs off on them negatively. On the other hand, maybe they need to recognize that because of the cliche, some people - like me - will have negative or mixed reactions to their use of the word, even if it's otherwise wholly appropriate.
That's exactly what defines SQLi. Incorrect filtering of user data is precisely the reason why SQLi is a vulnerability.
If the ISP shut down their network, they could be charged with obstructing justice.
Where's the error handling?

The `yield` calls are definitely simplifying the no-errors case, but it looks like any of those yields can throw an error back to the enclosing function. All the errors from all the yields end up in the same function? If you care about some or all of them and want to tell where the problem occurred, you'd need to wrap each `yield` in a try/catch?
> Make aliases for most Linux commands

I agree in principle, but what you should really be writing are shell functions. Aliases are defined once and cast in stone - if there is a variable in an alias body, it will be evaluated once, on alias creation, and never again. Functions have no such problem. They also let you select process arguments, while aliases delegate this to invoked commands. Aliases are for very simple things, anything more complicated and you should write a function.

Also, you should set up a decent autocompletion. Zsh needs a bit of configuring and fish has it by default - the need for most aliases is eliminated by autocompletion and history functionalities of a shell. There is standard CTRL+R combo which lets you search your history and there is a "up-line-and-search" action in zsh which searches the history for lines starting with what you have on your current line. Set your HISTSIZE to some huge number and never worry about forgetting how to do something or having to repeat (as in re-type) a command.

Use fasd (https://github.com/clvv/fasd). A simple little script that records all paths, files and directories, you visit and sorts them by "frecency" (both frequency and recency). It let's you just `z pr 5` to `/usr/home/you/project/something/test5`. Give it a day and you'll never want to get back.
The pricing page is intimidating.
another good link, providing full information about everyone that voted on this, with clickable links to more detailed information about each representative.

Makes it easier to get people to pester the appropriate representative.

http://projects.washingtonpost.com/congress/113/house/1/vote...
There is no such obligation; in fact, disposing of that obligation is part of the point of billing daily instead of hourly. Think about it this way: when you bill hourly, not every second of that hour is spent in diligent work either.
A Universe Full of Planets
Feedback on the website: There is currently no Terms of Service. There is a Privacy Policy posted, but the TOS is not there. Your PP says, "This Privacy Policy is governed by our Terms of Service", so I would post one immediately.
From the blog post: Disqus’ business now centers around new advertising built on top of content discovery. It’s the way we bring more traffic to sites using Disqus and how we’re also helping them make money from their communities.

http://blog.disqus.com/post/56451685463/our-new-site-same-st...
So this is similar to http://theprintful.com ?

I can't make sense of the pricing page, is the cost for shipping included in the "packaging"-price?

Do you ship worldwide?

How long does it take until my order is in my customers mailbox?
The worker was grateful for the opportunity, and enjoyed his time at Amazon, though he felt unmotivated toward the end.

He was paid fairly, and presumably commensurately to either his skills, experience, or what he was willing to accept. He entered into the contract freely, was not abused by the employer in any way, and knew full well going in that his employment term would be most likely limited to 12 months. Yet still, he would like to return to Amazon for gainful employment.

How exactly was anyone taken advantage of?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNfGyIW7aHM
Like not making laws is a bad thing?
It seems a bit like judging developers on lines of code.