skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When this was submitted 11 hours ago[0], amboar[1] commented[2]

I found the design page[3] to be interesting reading

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157338

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=amboar

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6157776

[3] http://lld.llvm.org/design.html
Show HN: I wrote Getting Started with ownCloud
Well, my reflex response is yes. Transport security seems like an odd thing to call a feature for a feed reader. Of course it's possible that it's a brutal cost multiplier for them - I'd be interested to know.
You mean like hubski?

http://hubski.com/
Sure, but when you want to update the WHOIS / reverse DNS or whatever you have to convince an RIR. If you don't care then I guess that's fine.
Pretty much everything in this comment is wrong (though I do recommend learning JavaScript before CoffeeScript)

CoffeeScript is no more of a "hack" than any compiler. Compilers take one language and turn it into another.

I think you mean Ruby syntax, not semantics. CoffeeScript's semantics are much closer to JavaScript than Ruby in almost every way.

It may have it's roots in the Ruby world, but I'd wager more non-Rubyists use CS at this point than Rubyists. I'm one of them.
Google Search? I don't recall the last time I had to send Google an email because their search wasn't working for me. Over the top example, but an example nonetheless.
Using a Tablet for Remote Working
Honestly, it probably comes down to your choice of environment. If you like Ruby, use SASS. If you like Node, use LESS. They're both very good and very powerful.
Google is terrible at support in general. I've been reporting a blogspot website stealing my documents and impersonating me for making money by ads for over two years. I sent my passport two times, and some friends also sent a report for me. Result? not even a verification e-mail. They simply host website that attacks my intellectual property, my name and give me no piece of shit.
No, it is not. They do not "have" polio now, they were paralyzed by the disease and the paralysis remains after the disease is gone. My mother had polio as a child and is crippled in one leg, but otherwise of normal health. I'm not sure what the infection worry is - it might be something to do with the paralysis/use of the iron lung?
My naive understanding is this approach is that there will be clear units that do small bits of work. With a tracing framework and some analysis, like that recently presented at BH [1], I wonder if blocks of code could be extracted to remove some of the obfuscation - if the blocks are meaningful (or can be simplified).

Does anyone have any ideas if this sort of analysis looks feasible in response to this kind of obfuscation?

[1] : [PDF] - https://media.blackhat.com/us-13/US-13-Raber-Virtual-Deobfus...
How to Restore Deleted Formatted and Lost Photos
It is a guide about how to recover the deleted, formatted, and lost photos from computer hard drive, USB drive, digital camera, SD card or etc.
You can find OpenBR, along with 40+ other face recognition APIs, libraries, SDKs, and software at http://blog.mashape.com/post/53379410412/list-of-40-face-det...
In general, I'm more worried about not being arrested - i.e. when I'm on the freeway, police stops me, they ask me what I have in my trunk or where am I going, can I say "I don't want to talk to you" and call a lawyer?
The more obvious long term side effect is nerve damage/paralysis, as in the case of the article, which is distinct from post-polio syndrome.
I find it very hard to believe that a bunch of random people find the time to comment (and all praise that app) on a Google Groups thread. Calling bullshit.
You seem to frame it in a very odd light. I don't see anything in that comment could be refereed as an "innuendo", nor do I see any source for comment to be crafted as to make something harder to rebut.

From that, I can only ask if you are arguing against a honest intellectual discussion, based on facts as well as rational arguments in which the criterion of the truth is not sensory but intellectual and deductive?

In this specific case of "direct access", the facts are the few press-release made, the leaked slides, and any contributing leaked report. The rational arguments is mostly around the definition of "direct access". The truth is thus depended on the quality of the facts, and the derived result of discussing the rational arguments.

Is this bad for HN, and if so, what should be done about it?
Yup...people thought the Wright brothers should stick to building bicycles too. I mean how can a bicycle repairman replicate a mechanism that nature took a million years to develop in a bird? It was ridiculous. Couple years later they were watching them fly around in the air.
At an atomic level, water plays critical roles in very small quantities and understanding these role requires detailed simulations. See this recent paper [1] for an example of how water molecules affect potassium channel inactivation, a key process in cardiac electrophysiology and other areas.

That's not to say that you can't get useful results by treating solvent as a continuum (or even ignoring it entirely), they'll just have a different kind of explanatory power.

[1] http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/07/130728134055.ht...
Microsoft et Oracle annoncent leur partenariat cloud computing
Why exactly is that? By far most people do not care at all that other people are (theoretically) able to see what they are reading. I certainly don’t at all.

I do not think HTTPS is in any way a required feature for a feedreader. It’s pretty perfect as a premium feature.
very very interesting. Top Gear is scathing of Tesla cars, and yet they raved about the new electric version of the Mercedes. (Admittedly, they did still take the piss out of its range...)
Security? Where do you see security issues outside of login data (which is already over HTTPS)?

This seems like a privacy feature (something not necessarily everyone cares about when it comes to their feedreading), not security.
US Congress exempts themselves from Obamacare
>For example, I notice a few people pointing out the higher number of Golang articles that get to the front page, however, this is more due to there being more development and discussion as v1.1 was just released. For other programming languages most common experiences have been shared and novel new ideas become fewer.

I don't think that's all there is to it. There are any number of programming languages at a similar level of maturity and popularity to go, but go gets a disproportionate number of stories on HN. Something is distorting the voting.
Extremely quick discharge is probably more interesting, for a certain kind of interest. Near-instantaneous discharge of a couple of kJ into your skin (or wedding ring) would be pretty dramatic.
Quarantine prevents others from getting sick, while preventative care only prevents you from getting sick.

For comparison, compare laws against punching other people to laws against punching yourself.
Genetics- A python library for genetic algorithms
They are not random people, they are the users of gmailsharedtasks. They have used it and love it. They have commented due to my request so that google come to know that the app works great and is loved and needs attention.
Yammy - A better way to create a Django/Jinja2 templates
I'm more concerned about the Model X, myself. An SUV that can't be used with a roof rack doesn't exactly strike me as something that will set its market sector on fire.
"it has a storage density that's right at the low-end of the range seen in lead-acid batteries" is this by volume or by weight? I would guess that the specific weight if the graphene version would be much lower than lead-acid, and if it is so and "the same" is by volume, this would be much more interesting for many applications.
I think there where C Jit but the did not win out for some reason. My think is, if we today would try to do a C jit with GCC resources it would probebly be just as fast.

There is simply nobody working on lowlevel language JITs.
There's no technical support necessary mind, Tor is just another proxy you can point your browser to with one click.

It is 'support' as in activism in the vain of "Know your rights" first-run messages Firefox runs, 'etc. It frustrates me when the solutions hacker types come up with either exclusively revolve around code or are not well thought out (like this suggestion).
Yes, but it's generally crap and everyone who can afford private insurance (or just paying list prices at private clinics), does.

<-- works with many Brazilians and spends about a month of each year there.
This is pretty much the last piece in the LLVM "puzzle", they've been relying on the GNU linker up until recently, which has made some optimisations more difficult to implement (notably whole program analysis targeting specific architectures)
If you're on a Mac and using LESS, LESS.app (or it's bigger brother CodeKit - which I think also does SASS) is a godsend.

http://incident57.com/less/
Ask HN: Does your app require integrated live broadcasts feature?
uTrailMe platform offers new possibility of embedding of live video broadcasts in any iOS and WP8 (after Android) application with minimal time consumption. Your users will be able to conduct live video broadcasts within your service. In the long term users can create the LIVE TV on your platform. Now it is absolutely free – we assume all expenses; we are constantly working on improvement of quality and are always in contact ready to provide consultation.

How it works for free, version 1.0:
Step 1:
A partner application embeds itself "GO LIVE" button (for example) by clicking on uTrailMe application which is activated and Live broadcast begins. After moving to uTrailMe application partner application goes into background operating mode.
Note: If the application is not installed, it is suggested to download it from the AppStore. After uTrailMe application installation a user has to click again the corresponding button for broadcasting in the partner application.
Step 2:
After the broadcast beginning the flow starts being transferred to uTrailMe servers with all the necessary information.
Step 3:
The partner application can address the server for necessary information on broadcast through REST API.
Step 4:
After the end of the broadcast (click the Stop button in the application uTrailMe) there is a reverse transition to the client application on URL application passed earlier (step 1). Control is passed to the client application.

In each case the object of broadcasting which comes back contains:
1) Video HLS URL broadcasts (a link for a broadcasting player). We can also provide a player component for playing live video by reference.
2) Thumbnails broadcasts
3) Hashtags with which the broadcast was published
4) Broadcast text message
5) Accounts in social networks with which the broadcast was published
6) Date of broadcast
7) gps coordinates of the place where broadcasting was conducted

WHAT DO YOU THINK?
Expressions 0.1 released: parse and compile arithmetic expressions
Again, please mention a specific quote and time...

Or do you expect me to invest 50 minutes finding that quote in there?
We actually clean the GET and POST arrays in an include when the page gets requested, if you need anything unescaped you specifically have to request it from a different array.

The code looks something like this:

$_GET = array_map ( 'strip_tags', $_GET );
$_GET = array_map ( 'mysql_real_escape_string', $_GET );

Although there is a bit more to it than just this.
> GC doesn't need to stop the world

As far as I know almost all GCs eventually have a full on stop the world case. The only expetion I know of is the azul C4 collecter but I think there the only ones.
I don't remember them being outlawed. As far as I can tell, they aren't as popular because the alternatives became more attractive.
> Indeed, I, too, dismissed CoffeeScript when I first saw it. But now that I’ve actually learned it and used it, I see how wrong I was: CoffeeScript truly is more powerful than JavaScript.

My experience was exactly the opposite. When I first saw CoffeeScript, I loved it, I started using it in my projects, it was really nice. But once I learned to use it, I stepped into all the annoyances caused by a bad use of significant whitespace, the many ways of doing the same thing, the tooling overhead, and the lack of readability.

In the end, I realised that there was a negative balance of good and bad things introduced by CoffeeScipt. It wasn't worth it. JS wasn't a bad language after all, and the improvements of CS were minimal if you know JS well.
and I'm sure it won't be long when live video feeds can be hacked in real time to show something contrary to what's actually happening

Done! Actually a few years ago. Even though I suspect that you have something more complex in mind then splicing in a TV signal:

http://www.geek.com/news/czech-nuclear-webcam-hack-included-...
> Every shyster and hack lawyer will pull this as defense in court.

I don't think it will be so trivial to use this defense. As somebody claimed, JBIG2 _reuses_ sufficiently similar blocks, so I guess it can be relatively easily determined whether the document has been messed up by lossy compression.
> How many gears from a mechanical computer does it take to simulate a micro processor?

Imo brains themselves are like mechanical gears compared to the potential of processor.
You should stop developing apps for Google
To do it properly you'd want to use prepared statements[1] which requires a non-trivial, though not particularly complicated, syntax change. So your global actor would have to parse the PHP in a rather more intelligent way that just a string replace.

You could just use mysql_real_escape_string [2] but that's less secure than prepared statements, and may break some things (eg if the code is relying on certain things not being escaped, etc). Also that extension is deprecated in favour of prepared statements.

Also, some of the dodgy code is using $_GET vars for things other than values, like field and table names (!!!!) which would need a more significant refactoring in order to fix.

However it would be a great little problem to work on, and you could probably write a bot to fix 80% of the code pretty easily.

The other issue is how many people will understand and accept the pull requests...

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/pdo.prepared-statements.php

[2] http://php.net/manual/en/function.mysql-real-escape-string.p...
Make a fuse filesystem for networking then...
You don't even need to change the source, you just use a different key.
Oh please, there is a significant difference between knowingly (let's not kid ourselves) hosting such unsavory material and accidentally sending it along.

The intent of Freedom Hosting was clearly to host questionable material.
I think the way we improve battery capacity in smartphones and cars will be to swap batteries for graphene capacitors. I've seen a couple of cool demos of these things, and they look awesome :)

In particular, think about the electric car - at the moment, they weigh much more than petrol counterparts because of all the batteries, and they have the rocket fuel problem of needing to accelerate all those batteries as well as the car and humans. If you can make the batteries out of carbon, even at the same volume they will be considerably lighter, and this alone will increase the range of EVs hugely! and, for free, you'll get the speedup in charge time. If manufacturing the things is as simple as using adapted DVD burners or paper presses, this lowers the barrier to adoption even faster. I'm really excited about this technology!
Yes. Absolutely. 8MB is a hell of a lot of code.
How do you think the authenticated session is maintained?
Yeah, the same for Classic ASP: https://github.com/search?q=extension%3Aasp+execute+request&...
+1. Since my ISP blocked TPB, I've moved to kickass.to
I was imagining a random unused string somewhere in the code / random uncalled function. If you use an encryption key to actually generate the obfuscated program (I wasn't sure the article was saying you did,) this is clearly not required.
Not too paranoid, considering the front page of this project says "OpenBR is a collaborative research project started by The MITRE Corporation". What is MITRE?

http://www.mitre.org/work/hs_sedi/ : Homeland Security Systems Engineering and Development Institute—or HS SEDI ...

http://www.mitre.org/work/intel.html : Just about all of MITRE's engineering and science disciplines are involved with improving our sponsors' intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) activities.
Firefox Zero-Day Exploit used by FBI;
NPM is down
The NPM Registry is down.

http://isaacs.iriscouch.com/registry/
Transportes como Alavanca do Desenvolvimento da Economia
that's what BitPay.com is for - pays out in local currency
How to Create the Perfect App Icon
So would burning gasoline on your skin. So what?
Interesting to compare the reaction here with this

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6152491, where someone thought it was insulting to be exposed to a request to fund development.
Alan Turing's Best Productivity Tricks
Fact of the matter is any company is mostly judged based on the market they have chosen to compete in. Tesla make $70K+ cars and they should be judged based on that market.

Porsche (before they were purchased by VW) used to make rather expensive cars and they would always have a rather small percentage of the overall market. But no-one would accuse Porsche of being a failure, because they did very well in their rather lucrative price brackets. In fact Porsche is often called the most successful car company ever due to their big profit margins.
Then shut down the Internet, and make the distribution of child porn even more difficult.
I'd even take a bet on that.

PP self-destructed when they lost focus on geek topics and instead vacuumed up all the feminist, anti-sexist, anti-capitalist, anti-anything scum that came to dominate the party.

Now they are a lost cause and they will go under after the election.
You made my point regarding small scale simulation, but completely missed the rest.

> So they wire it like the brain is wired.

As if anyone knew how to do that. Even assuming that you can do both accurate micro-tractography and extract cell-by cell epigenetic information out of a single column, you'd still be missing other cricial information like individual synaptic strength.

I'm not talking about cortico-thalamic connections (required to model epilepsy) inter-columnar connections, and whatever regulation happens in the white matter.

Relying on the probability distribution of connections as a crude approximation is useful, but far from the real deal.
So then you support making an example of this guy, because others don't pay enough attention to the law? Am I reading that right?
Of course not, but pro will be funding their infrastructure as a whole
Watch_Dogs WeareData
It's Penrose's view that a brain is quantum, but this paper http://arxiv.org/pdf/quant-ph/9907009v2.pdf shows human brain is more classical than quantum.

Maybe the simulation algorithm is the thing that needs improvement. Some day one finds a way to reduce the complexity an order of magnitude, then the era of human brain is over.
Have Django respond to Email in real-time
Interesting - looks like it would pair well with http://www.deskgen.com/ which allows teams to share resources and DNA sequences, sync that to an inventory of existing plasmids, proteins and enzymes and helps teams be more efficient in producing DNA. Love seeing the places biotech is going.
The correlation between the launch of the bank and his arrest is quite suspect.
I believe the hosting was secure however the bank wasn't and it allowed the police to identify him through that.
Once they knew who he was doing the rest was easy.
Not convinced this is a good idea.

Your devs will learn to trust $_GET "because it's cleaned by our include".

They'll never sanitise input themselves "because it's cleaned by our include".

Code that they write for other projects will trust $_GET "because it's cleaned by our include" - except it's not because this is a 3rd party script.

Code you import from other projects will be double-escaping.

Also mysql_real_escape_string is deprecated.

Stop treating SQL queries as strings. They're code. You wouldn't write code by concatenating strings with user input would you?

Use prepared statements.

edit: missed the part when you said that you clean $_POST as well. I was wondering "What do you do when you need to submit markup?" Now I know that it's magic. The $_REQUEST array is actually the unsanitised array, whereas $_POST is the sanitised one. Of course! Isn't it obvious!

Sigh.
Don't want the NSA reading my I can haz cheezburger feed
Why do HN people feel the need to portray everything the US federal government goes after as a martyr for free speech? Of all the Internet-related crimes, I think stopping pornography depicting minors is one of the least controversial laws to possibly enforce. I know it's more convenient to group everything the FBI, CIA, and NSA do into an "obviously evil" bin, but sometimes you need to appreciate enough nuance to not defend all their online targets on principle. If this isn't one of those times, I don't know what is.

Just like they can always make the argument that they are protecting people with xyz questionable tactics, you can always make the claim that something on the Internet is for the purposes of free speech. That doesn't make you right, or even mean that free speech is the primary legal or moral distinguishing factor even if you are.
The most excellent giraffe[1] graphite dashboard uses rickshaw. Really good stuff!

[1] http://kenhub.github.io/giraffe/#dashboard=Demo&timeFrame=1d
It's linkbait. Try looking at Buzzfeed or Mashable without cringing.
Seems like it would be possible to create a "linter" for PHP and Ruby that would detect at least basic SQL injection vulnerabilities?
Curiosity Rover Celebrates 1 Year on Mars
This is a tough job because Racket's macro system is at the edge of the known, so there isn't a great deal of material about how to use it. There are a few guides around, particularly for the older syntax-rules and syntax-case, but for the latest and greatest the manuals and the research papers are the best source of information.
PhantomCSS - CSS regression testing
Synchronize Bitbucket to Github automatically
Just use S3 for that. There are simple command line tools available.
I don't know why Microsoft would be the exclusion, but since I assume Microsoft/Apple/Google will be the sole distributors of the software on their respective platforms and also directly enjoy a share of the profits, it seems entirely reasonable to ask them to invest in the development of the software.
Asana Engineering
"I love what Google are doing" - but of course you do, it is called Stockholm Syndrome. Irony aside, i'm trully amazed of Google. See, the smallest misstep Apple makes, everybody jump to hate Apple. Google on the orher can do whatever they want and nada, everybody jump in to alleviate the evelasting, unconditional love, no matter what. Remarkable achievement, hat off, in todays world.
poor, poor Bobby Tables...
3 Arsenal tools you will need for SEO blogging success
Bootstrap Travels: Starting 10 days of product development on Crete
Exactly this.

mtgx's logic is severely flawed. The intention is, if nothing else, very important. Let's not kid ourselves, he knew what he was hosting and what kind of content he was facilitating the distribution of.
ViewOverlay in Android, new API 18 sample
I'm a DevRel person working for Google's Apps APIs, please contact me.
The cheapest BMW 5 series model here in Austria sells for EUR 41900 (USD 55620) including taxes (MSRP).

BMW is an expensive brand, but the 5 series is mid-range.
Obviously not, because in that case Tesla will be worth 3998302580 billion dollars in 2023.