skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Even with all the Snowden articles I've read over the past few months, nothing has made me want to start manufacturing tin foil clothing more than this article just did.
Blaming the victim? Nice.
I'm pretty sure I never thought of IE as a "great browser" and I've been doing web development for 15 years. It is probably closer than ever before to being a standards-compliant browser that doesn't require a thousand "fixes" in order to work correctly. Unfortunately, we still have to deal with IE7, IE8, and, yes, even IE9 in the wild. IE7 is becoming much less prevalent, but it is still often required for the clients I deal with.
Not only is it slow, many malloc() implementations (like even in glibc, I think) take a global lock, so they are prone to contention when called concurrently. Other mallocs (like tcmalloc and Hoard) satisfy small allocations from a thread-local pool.
One reason they might require this information is they need proof you live in the USA, otherwise they will charge you VAT.
re: "management people"

That is part of the problem. You will often find that the skills it takes to climb the corporate ladder are not the same as the skills it takes to be a good manager. Management in bigger companies tends to be littered with well connected but incompetent people who are really good at bullshitting and 'looking the part'. This doesn't apply to every manager, but it is common enough that you are almost guaranteed to work with plenty of them throughout your career.
Maybe it's because of my background with Backbone.js but Angular really doesn't feel right. Any way I look at it, it feels like HTML and JS is being miished mashed together all over again and I thought we were past this way of doing things.
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Those uppity cleaning staff better not get the balls and gall to make a blog on-line about it either!
For a lot of people I know, it coincided with the gradual migration from Windows to OSX or Linux between 3-5 years ago.

So much of front-end development is done on Macs these days, and Firefox and Chrome are so fluidly cross-platform...

If IE wanted to be taken seriously as a modern browser, as a platform, then they almost need to come out with a blazing-fast OSX version of it, which is obviously never going to happen.
You seem to be saying that extorting millions of dollars from business competitors, even if legal, is on the same moral plane as murdering millions of people. The legality issue matters a bit, insofar as a potential competitor has notice that such business risks may occur, and can plan for them economically before entering the market, whereas people don't reasonably expect to be rounded up and sent off to concentration camps fitted with gas chambers as a matter of course. But the more important point is that I don't consider business dealings, however harsh or unethical, to be on the same moral plane as genocide.
Very impressive URL.

I assume one of the founders already owned it?
HA the jokes on you! We already HAVE the result of that.

In all serious though, just be thankful you're still alive you unappreciative uppity citizen; at least you haven't been killed by a terrorist yet.
"Maybe $20/month isn't the right model. Maybe there's a different model you can consider where you'd have fewer customers, but those customers would be at a much higher price point."

Another model to consider would be to have different private label companies (that you control) serving up essentially the same product, priced differently, and offered through a different company name.

For example you have basecamp where you can manage unlimited projects at $3000 per year.

But it's possible that Boeing might pay $50,000 per year if they got even a higher level of service and a personal account manager. [1]

Now you could do this by adding a tier to basecamp but you could also be your own competition with basecamp just for the bespoke offering.

Figures arbitrary to make a point.

[1] Sold by a professional sales force or some other higher cost method than adwords.

For example I'm helping to investigate, as a favor, solutions for Physician scheduling. I'm amazed at how cheap the service is. I know that the group that wants this would easily pay much more to solve the problem in a turnkey fashion. But the current offerings are being sold on price only as a way to get attention. (And not doing a good job at it for that matter.)
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On first glance this looks similar to a pubspec.yaml file in Dart. Maybe you could borrow ideas from there.

It seems like for a business you'd also want to download your dependencies and check them in, in case the original repo isn't available.
The botnet carding numbers were what I was quoting, not mag stripe dumps. And I was told it was the other way around, that US cards either had higher limits or the banks were more lenient with the credit? Seeing as Americans use credit cards way more than most countries, a multitude of charges would be more easily overlooked. But i'm pretty sure $50 per card is not a realistic rate, even if they're worth more than US cards.
Still no SSD option? As the owner of a top forum, I think IOPs are far more important than gigabytes.
There are so many variables in quantifying oneself that I have given up many times. It becomes a chore after a while.
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It's worth pointing out that the iBook store has dozens of books for Android development. Perhaps apps have different rules...
> Port Agenda Wizard from Java to python. Removed 11 files, 5345 lines of java code (Xisco Faulí)

> Port Web Wizard from Java to python. 140 files changed, 5076 (+), 11416 (-). Removed 55 files, 10426 lines of java code (Javier Fernandez)

So it looks like they're trying to scrub out the Java parts (except perhaps in Base). Does anyone know if this is the case?
> I could go on and on here like the vaccines business is create problem & offer solution infinite loop

Except that we know the backstory to this particular chicken/egg problem, and we know that in this case vaccines came last, after the problem they were meant to solve (and, substantially speaking, have solved).

America's longest-serving President was crippled no less than 100 years ago by a disease which vaccination can now prevent, and you're blaming Big Pharma for that???
Pluralsight is mainly focusing on Microsoft, I wish peepcode will always maintain its quality.
I don't think you understand what context means. Who brought Hitler into the conversation, and why?
Nope, they're just hustlers http://blog.lob.com/post/55544977604/the-art-of-a-3-letter-d...
In Italy of course! An espresso at your favourite bar[1] ranges between 0.80€ and 1.00€[2]

[1] expensive exceptions apply, like in really touristic spots like Piazza San Marco in Venezia or similar
[2] of course not served to the table but at the counter (or bench or stand or whatever you call it in english) like we do typically:)
If not confidential, could you please file bugs regarding bad conversions? LibreOffice actually has various test cases to make sure they do not regress such bugs.
They actually wrote about their experience here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6060942
>- Make aliases for most Linux commands. Abstract Linux into a simple interface of aliases that you can browse in your .zshrc/.bashrc/fish.config. Linux becomes much more enjoyable when you can type `untar <file>` instead of remembering the magical incantation `sudo tar -xzvf <file>`. Make aliases for everything. nginx-reload. nginx-restart. alias z="vim ~/.zshrc && source ~/.zshrc". I even abstract apt-get commands into ag-install, ag-update, ag-remote, etc.

One problem with this is you become a cripple when you have to use an outside machine or need to write a script for wide distribution.
If you could actually define those words in a rigorous way, maybe then we'd be able to have a conversation about whether or not they are material. Too bad nobody really knows what consciousness is. Do you have some insight that nobody else has?

It's pretty clear there is a physical basis for cognition. Some extremely pedantic philosophers may not come to the same conclusion though. If you have any doubts, here's how you can find out: get a friend to beat your head in with a baseball bat (made with preferably something tough like steel or titanium).
Mostly Paul Graham's twitter conversations and the occasional paranoid comment posted here.
Why is the Treehouse CEO saying "Man, this is ridiculous" while still playing along with Apple's bullshit?

Might as well compromise your product and your users to make a few extra bucks, right?

Grow some balls and stand up to your bullies, friend. Your product is popular. People will request it. Keep it off the App Store until Apple comes begging you to submit it again.
Check out Yao's Millionaires' Problem[1]. It's exactly what you're describing and does not require a third party.

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millionaire%27s_Problem
Reminds of the tickets to "walk" up Half Dome (Yosemite park). After some folks died a few years back, the number of folks is limited and you have to get a ticket.

All tickets for the year are gone on the first day they become available and then lo and behold you can suddenly buy the tickets (for a considerable markup) elsewhere.
The folks scooping up the tickets like this are parasites. The solution is to limit the number of tickets per person or to disallow reselling.

(Haven't tried for a while out of frustration, might be different now)

I know, slightly tangential to the article.
This type of job sounds like it may not be permanent. But when you do perpetual contracting for grunt work, your quality suffers. This type of contracting only works when the best people insist on being contractors and you can't hire them full time.

It would be interesting to hear Amazon's side of the story.
I've been thinking quite a lot about that exact thing as well. There must be a way to build great commercial tools that are also truly secure. I'd love to discuss further. Contact info in my profile.
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Hi HN community
I like to share my sideproject - a platform about side projects. How do you like this idea? Like to have any input, from negative to positive.

KR, Fabian
I see it still has the blue colors at the top, uglifying every site viewed in it. Why not be neutral, like Chrome?
> "do the police have the right to not investigate something that was reported as illegal?"

Yes, they certainly do. There are often more reports than there are resources for the police to respond to. Additionally, if I report something that is obviously frivolous or not illegal, they don't have to investigate. For example: I report to your local PD that you have harassed me with this comment online. It's obviously baseless and frivolous, and they shouldn't spend any time "warning you that it might be illegal".

> "they should probably investigate and determine if a crime actually happened"

Sure, when the police report is made by the harassed party, they should ask the form that the harassment took place as. When the response is "reviews on Yelp", the police should be smart enough to know that it isn't harassment. It could still be libel or defamation, but neither of those are criminal activities, and shouldn't be pursued by the police. There is no need for any investigation that goes beyond the report and maybe looking at the source of the reviews.

> "I guess don't really see the problem with the phone call from the police either"

First of all, I think the officer had good and understandable intentions. I don't think she was overtly threatening or malicious. She was just trying to diffuse a situation. Unfortunately, she was doing so by strongly urging a citizen to stop expressing their rights under 1A.

From one POV it's a helpful police officer trying to defuse a situation; from another POV it's an official agent of the government telling the citizen that they should stop doing an activity that they have every right to. An officer of the law telling you what you're doing is borderline criminal when it's not is going to have a significant chilling effect on speech.

I think this is expressed in quotes from the officer such as:

* "is there any reason you posted those photos?"

* "If there is a violation and you want to show it to someone ... If they feel like there's no violation then you should probably drop it"

* "You put your opinion out there once, twice, I'm not sure what you're hoping to gain"

* "You're borderline criminal / civil harassment there" (this isn't true. It could be a violation of Yelp's TOS, or it could be defamation, but it wouldn't be harassment. Unless they prosecute the violation of Yelp's TOS under the CFAA there is no criminal behavior implied in his actions)

Again, I don't think the officer's intent was bad. I also don't think this was as big a deal as the article made it out to be. However, like I said, it seems perfectly reasonable to secure pro-bono counsel for the guy. An article that tries to make a splash might be a necessary thing for getting pro-bono counsel.
How would one even go about doing this? Do you just keep trying difference ssh key values?

I never understood how people can just magically "gain access" to servers.
If you Google or visit the website you'll notice that AOO released 4.0 a few days ago.
Because Couchbase has very different features and an almost completely different interface. For example, there is no changes stream, etc.

The name lies a bit.
I don't have much domain knowledge, but the pricing seems rather high:

https://www.lob.com/pricing

$.45 for a black and white piece of paper is on the high end, especially considering they're acting as a middleman.
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Some reasoning for switching away from hourly billing:

- Less time spent tracking hours

- Less risk of client quibbling about time spent on each task

- Disassociation from hourly rates (e.g. a large client may pay $20K a week for an important project, whereas people may balk at a $500-1000 equivalent hourly rate)

- More likelihood of working on larger, more important projects (less risk of the project falling apart, not getting paid, etc)

A daily rate will limit your client pool, but in a good way: bigger, more serious, and richer companies. A weekly rate will do this even more-so. But if you can reach the big fish and convince them of your value, more lucrative.

See more of tptacek's posts on this topic: https://www.hnsearch.com/search#request/all&q=tptacek+hourly...
For the curious, here's the HN discussion of "The Meme Hustler": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5472759
This isn't unique to the tech sector, there were companies operating this sort of policy before MS. I'm not asking why, I'm asking whether it is actually economically efficient or whether people just take HR's say-so that it is.
Well, pg gave several examples of "things that don't scale" in his article, and I believe Jason is referring to focusing on individual users, not doing tasks manually. He mentions eschewing automation but he's talking about automation of client interations, not automation of all the software processes.

In terms of software I agree though, clicking pretty boxes is just a different type of automation. I am co-opting the phrase "artisanal high-touch."
They seized the c&c servers, not the infected bots/clients
With zero knowledge of the source language, those two translations make me think that they were going for "Tonight, he is no more."
That's not a good reason, Hetzner doesn't require that to not charge you VAT.
LibreOffice works on multiple versions at the same time. So 4.1.0 is just out, that'll be advertised as "potentially buggy" (forgot what name they gave it). Then they will still continue to release new updates for 4.0.x and IIRC also the version before that.

So suggest LibreOffice, as you can choose what kind of stability guarantee is good for you.
"is enough"?
Is anyone aware of a) whether other security auditors or services could have identified these vulnerabilities and b) what it takes to sell to these exploited firms?

My understanding of security is fairly small, but it seems to me that there's a market to be had here ... If the expertise exists to dramatically reduce exposure, it's a question of sales or ease of use. If the expertise doesn't exist yet, someone smart might make a lot of money.
My first experience in a technical position was exactly the same. I was a temp employee at a major computer/printer manufacturer. In their case the policy (law, I think) was that you could work for as a temp for 6 years before you had to take something like at least 6 months off. There were loads of people who'd been temps so long they'd had one or two of these 'vacations' (unpaid, of course).

It's unfortunate. It sets up a nasty little caste system, but my understanding is that it's done not because it produces better work but rather because as a public company it allows to you constantly "right-size" your headcount without firing actual employees, which you'd have to report to your shareholders.

I'm sure at the location I worked at temps out-numbered full time employees by a factor of at least 4-to-1. After being passed up for a couple of full time positions (it was a joke or legal loophole that we were even allowed to apply) the best employees would jump ship and the workforce would maintain a consistent average/below-average pool of pretty apathetic clock-punchers. I don't think that was misunderstood by anyone in a position to control things though.
Hi HN community
I like to share my sideproject - a platform about side projects. How do you like this idea? Like to have any input, from negative to positive.

KR, Fabian
Search engines are your friends, the first link I chose from corn plant patent ... reminded? me that plants have been patentable since 1930: Plant Patent Act of 1930, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plant_Patent_Act_of_1930, in the law as 35 U.S.C. § 161, http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/35/161

"Whoever invents or discovers and asexually reproduces any distinct and new variety of plant, including cultivated sports, mutants, hybrids, and newly found seedlings, other than a tuber propagated plant or a plant found in an uncultivated state, may obtain a patent therefor..."

See lots more e.g. here: http://cookingupastory.com/patent-law-how-patents-grew-over-...
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Do you have a link with more info on this setup?
Well... for 9GBP for 3 months, might as well just buy one and see if it is any good. If not, that's fine.
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Atom could support ECC:
http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Atom/Intel-Atom%20S1240.html
If the mice respond in a way that indicates a fear response, why would you not consider that as strong evidence for the experience of fear? I would also add that verbalizing an "experience" is a behavior just the same as a "fear response" action being observed. Both types of evidence have the same problem of extrapolating the inner mind by external behavior.

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.
Big difference for me is that Couchbase doesn't have an HTTP interface. That is one of my absolute favorite features of CouchDB (along with master-master replication and the changes stream).
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If indeed it was a basic SQLi attack and NASDAQ failed to prevent it, then to some degree, yes, they're responsible. As a high-value target it's incumbent on them to secure their systems.

Here on HN we often say "security through obscurity is no security." Relying on the fact that it is "illegal" for someone to hack your system to prevent them from doing so is similarly flawed logic.
Has anyone had any luck signing into the udacity course on their ipad using either facebook or google login? My attempts keep resulting in a blank white screen.
Does anyone know where I could find a list of API's as a product?

examples that I can think of:

Stripe

Lob

EligibleAPI

Factual
Because you're not a furniture mover. Hourly rates:

* Make it harder to negotiate good rates: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3420782

* Are a pernicious drag on your client relationships: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103417

* Deprive you of opportunities to do lightweight things for free without setting weird expectations: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4102639

* Obscure the actual value you're providing to clients, which isn't simply getting technical things done: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4103207

* Are part of the difference between transactional contracting and consulting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2909923
It "started" in the text of the post itself, since the author, the person actually affected here, didn't much like his wife being kicked out. So it was straight-up threadshitting to call it no-big-deal.
My org hires contract for various understaffed projects. Often for SDET. Sometimes they make a transition to full time.
yep translates to Isenough only the german "is" is a colloquial version of "ist" which is proper spelling.
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It's not just for Asians. Alcohol is a known cause of cancer for humans.

From the American Cancer Society (http://www.cancer.org/cancer/cancercauses/dietandphysicalact...):

"Alcohol is a known cause of cancers of the:

Mouth
Throat (pharynx)
Voice box (larynx)
Esophagus
Liver
Colon and rectum
Breast"
Would you trust your savings to a startup? Maybe if there was FDIC insurance. Would you expect the federal government to trust everyone's money to startups?

No way.

While banks may be horrible to their retail customers, the regulations that protect them exist for a reason. The current state of affairs is far, far better than having hundreds of thousands of banks which could fail and drop off the map with all of their customers' assets at any time.

FDIC insurance has changed that, but a prudent insurance company would not insure a startup bank, or if it did, it would need to collect so much for that risk that the startup bank couldn't offer anything competitive. The FDIC is almost certainly not going to do this.

Simple is a UI on top of a traditional bank.
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Except for cert pinning. I think moxie is working on a general form of that right now.
I hate it when the article is written with the assumption that it is going to make the front page of HN /and/ spark a discussion.

EDIT: Interesting article though.
There is a market here.
I guess in theory you could do something like this:

y = 0
test = (x) ->
`var y = 10`
x + y

The language is open source... we could fix it!
Michael Meeks once said they want to get rid of as much of Java as possible. Not sure of all the reasons. Just having Java enabled in OO.org used to be a major cause of OO.org starting up slowly. I haven't checked if that is still the case in LibreOffice, but not needing Java is quite nice. IIRC the Java dependency was not really made on technical reasons, more that either the developers (Sun) knew+liked it or that they wanted to push it.

I really appreciate that they're reducing the amount of languages in the project, makes it easier for new developers to join. There are loads of things that they're doing just to make it easier for developers. Pretty weird reason to prefer LibreOffice because of this, but that's me :P
Medieval torture is a bad example because it was done with the intent of causing pain. This is not.

A better example might be vivisection - it used to be done without any analgesia at all, for the simple reason that they had none. But they learned a LOT from it. Today the idea is repugnant, but that's because we have analgesics we can use.

This is the same way - it's the best tool we have. Once we get a better tool we'll use it, but don't criticize the past for not using a tool that didn't exist.

Even worse would be to say not to do the experiment at all.