skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Startup Bootcamp 2013 at MIT on Saturday
Zsh Config from the ground up
> Those people are not considered dumb asses.

Wait. Why exactly are they not considered dumb asses? I sure do consider them that.
So some new scientific knowledge has come out of this unfortunate death.

That's good.
"So some of the often-ignorable effects probably do add up."

Oh, they certainly do: http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/pioneer-anomaly-solved/

I don't think any other space mission has ever had a chance to worry about that level of detail.
Thanks for finding that out! I wouldn't have guessed.
We really wanted to like Sift, as we suffer from a substantial amount of fraud attempts (as most business who sell digital products). However, their model is not a good fit for eCommerce sites, and that's a shame - it seems to be built specifically for services marketplaces like AirBnb, where there is typically a time delay between payment and service provision.

I exchanged a few Email with their support previously, and there is no way to get real time fraud scoring. I would expect to receive in the response to a transaction event the risk score associated with it - something similar to what the Minfraud service does (which we use), but taking into account more factors since they collect more data via their Javascript API.

One can only hope they'll offer this capability in the future, and we'd be glad to try it out again.
Infinity Blade Creators Expect Next iPhone to Support Physical Controllers
Unfortunately their content is pretty cruddy. I watched the Zombieland pilot and one other and they were both borderline unwatchable. Bad acting / writing / production, etc.
But maybe that's what sell ads.
Is Anything Better Than Rice to Fix a Wet iPhone?
Seems to me this is more an aspect of programming ... especially amongst such trendy topics as JS or Rails, which are full of 20-somethings who have a lot of disposable income and generally small, if any immediate family responsibilities.

Sorry if I'm overly generalizing the field here, but I just got back from DjangoCon where there was one bar night, and one architectural boat tour of Chicago night. So a little of everything, which was awesome.

I think at least part of that is that, at least in my limited experience, Django is not a hot property in the world of web development, and a fair number of people had interests that went beyond undergrad. Again, sincere apologies to folks in all areas of development if I'm being overly general.
The first-ever audio of what interstellar space sounds like
Their revenue is also likely low, given that they could do a confidential S-1 (there's a revenue, not a profit, limit for that type of filing)
How NSA Does Data Mining (a.k.a. Spying)...Leaked.
product seems awesome (vncserver -> backend -> websockets -> user?) -- I also really like the flattened (?) browser icons! Did you make them?
i'm pro-light-markup. so i think this project is cool.

but unless you got explicit permission from the mou guy
to use the name of his app, that is definitely not cool.

-bowerbird
Oh my god someone wrote something awesome

I am going to be the best, like no one ever was
> Why don't programmers work in shifts? You work on a module for eight hours then someone steps in at 6 and picks up where you left off?

We sorta do in some cases. If you've ever worked closely with an outsourced team (in my case, India) handling support cases, this ends up being almost exactly like working in shifts. We make sure to commit our code and update the bug/client ticket before leaving. Then someone on the India team can pick up the work from where we left off.

Of course, this was only used specifically for high priority cases that came directly via a client rather than a normal bug fix or feature request. But I think this reflects exactly how and when shifts should be used. Work that can wait until tomorrow doesn't need to be handed off to someone. Work that is urgent can be handled in shifts.
Well, hmm, I don't think that's quite right either. There is a category where the objects are clojure types and the arrows are clojure functions, but I don't see how the threading operator embodies it. There could totally be some perspective I'm missing, though.
Microsoft's New Strategy for Tablet Wars: Begin Buying Old iPads
Remember, it's not directed. Evolution qua evolution hasn't got a problem going to the brink, then watching humanity wipe out, then never building another intelligent species on Earth again... of course it doesn't have a problem, since it isn't a human or even a living thing that could have a problem, or indeed have anything.

But observationally, humanity is currently in a place where that level of gene engineering is a decent bet, yes.
Now, develop and debug it without being able to use HTTP or test it with live data in any way.
Well, the cocktail in question is called 'Epic Fail'.
Had me right up until "phone companies work together to make the best phones in the world".

Still want to see a prototype though.
As I pointed out MongoDB inc (ex 10gen) made some decision in relation to how they marketed and set up their product that made many turn their heads.
Maybe one day we can "pass on passing on", too.
Friction pads would probably have much more predictable wear (potentially in excess of the expected lifespan of the critter), whereas the discrete, stress-concentrating nature of gears would put them at higher risk of a single weak spot leading to cascading failure (then again, they'll still technically last almost a lifetime :)).
Ads are a proxy for micropayments. For various reasons, Google cannot charge you directly for their services. Instead, they show you an ad, which is effectively you paying them in attention, and they then sell this user attention to the advertisers.
Or fingerprint you at the detention center after you're arrested filming some cops beating a protester. Probably can just print it out to film and press it into the reader and open it. The CCC lifted the fingerprint of German Secretary of the Interior Wolfgang Schäuble from a glass he used at a panel discussion to prove how worthless fingerprints are for authentication.
We need a good feedback mechanism. Of the major forms of advertising (TV, radio, web, mobile), which allow you to respond to the ads? None so far. But I don't think it'll be that way for long.
If someone can crack his key old as of 2020, then they can start distributing a fake Bruce Scheneier 4096 bit key at that time. He might think it's better for him as something of a security celebrity to just publish a new key.
You shouldn't worry about this at all.

Obligatory references on the subject of the unvalidated Myers-Briggs Type Indicator®:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/on-leadership/myers-b...

"Now, 50 years after the first time anyone paid money for the test, the Myers-Briggs legacy is reaching the end of the family line. The youngest heirs don’t want it. And it’s not clear whether organizations should, either.

. . . .

"Yet despite its widespread use and vast financial success, and although it was derived from the work of Carl Jung, one of the most famous psychologists of the 20th century, the test is highly questioned by the scientific community."

http://www.skepdic.com/myersb.html

http://www.psychometric-success.com/personality-tests/person...

"Overall, the review committee concluded that the MBTI has not demonstrated adequate validity although its popularity and use has been steadily increasing. The National Academy of Sciences review committee concluded that: 'at this time, there is not sufficient, well-designed research to justify the use of the MBTI in career counseling programs,' the very thing that it is most often used for."

http://www.indiana.edu/~jobtalk/HRMWebsite/hrm/articles/deve...

http://www.amazon.com/Cult-Personality-Testing-Annie-Murphy/...
I'm not familiar enough with Python to be able to make a reliable statement on the matter.

However, I would imagine that it would work fine for any language that has:

1.) The ability to eval strings as code.
2.) The ability to serialize functions or methods to strings.
3.) The ability to get and post to a web service.

As far as I can tell Python has all of these features.

Now, for a really far out idea... there is possibly a way to take functions or methods from one language and convert them to functions or methods in another language in a similar way to how C++ and other languages are compiled to JS, on top of LLVM and Emscripten.

That way, instead of having competing module repositories for each language, code can be freely shared between not only different machines but different execution environments.

I'm sure there are many caveats as I haven't explored this idea thoroughly.
Except police malware such as FinFisher/FinSpy specifically uses Itunes updates to break into iOS
We've (Runscope) tried to make debugging better than what you can do with a simple post catcher like requestb.in. The nice thing about our forwarding setup is that if a webhook fails on your server you have a log of that and can retry it.
More importantly Syria falling weakens Iran which is the bigger prize.
Supercapacitor invented by 18 year old girl
Strategically, you are probably better off not signing a message unless you want the message to be verifiable.
My personal impression is that the rise of advertising has emerged from the collapse of disposable income. In a world where everyone has wealth to spend, it is better to just make more goods people want to buy as efficiently as possible. In a world where everyone is poor, and losing money to capital siphoning through the rich (who do not evenly reinvest this capital into the economy, and expect reliable returns meaning more long term concentration of money), advertising becomes more relevant because you compete over scarce dollars and more so need to motivate purchases through psychological breaking down of a targets resistance to splurge buy something of yours.

When actually making more goods doesn't make you more money (at least commodity goods, there is a growing market for the absurd luxury goods targeting those that own dividend stocks and have multiple houses and personal chefs) your alternative is to use psychological manipulation to drive the limited dollars towards your goods, even if it means the per-unit cost is higher. You make the gambit - persuade someone to buy, or don't sell at all because your product isn't really that competitve anymore when you are spending upwards of 30% of your budget on ads.

Look no further than the evolution of the video game industry - since it is so new, it also shows this effect strongly, where the biggest titles like the CoD games can see 80% of their budget spent on advertising (cursory google search to get these numbers on the latest title, Black Ops 2, turned up nothing citeable). If you spend $28 million making a game, and $120 - 200 million on ads, your economic model must be fucked.

So because you compete for scarce dollars, customers aren't coming to you, you need to manipulate customers into spending money they don't have. Hence why advertising is so huge, even with 1% click-through rates. All that concentrated wealth getting reinvested has limited alternative options of where to go, so you just try to pry more money out of people through bombardment.
I realize I'm a bit late on the reply, but a few thoughts:

- CRC would easily encounter a collision within the first few minutes (at the most) of running any arbitrary code (your operating system, for instance). You'd need something much longer and less prone to errors, like SHA. Otherwise you'd be getting lots of weird problems as the CPU triggers the backdoor constantly.
- More complex hashing would take more memory and lots of CPU time, something that would doubtfully be available to at the microcode level. If every instruction computed a non-trivial hash, someone would quickly notice performance issues ;)
- Shorting the RNG would produce some very suspicious results, and anyone looking at any kind of fuzzed tests, testing encryption strength, or running tests against something like OpenSSL would quickly discover the backdoor.
- Any kind of "the next comparison is always true" would easily trip even the most basic of unit tests, and it would happen every time. Making it only happen randomly might help, but would likely still be found relatively quickly.
I think the idea that twitter will follow more of a TV strategy than a google strategy is good one. Twitter is obviously a platform ideal for kicking entertaining content at users to keep your brand relevant and with positive affect in their mind.
What a Dick move.
How does this differ from Identicon? http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Identicon
I have a very insensitive palette, which is probably to blame for apathy when it comes to variation. Most coffees, liquors, other drinks, tobacco products, and even foods taste almost exactly the same to me, despite consuming different brands/combinations/recipes of all of them for years, whereas my peers have developed discernible tastes when it comes to such things.

Or it could be as you say and I've never really indulged in what could be considered truly superior products. Sometimes I'm not really sure.

I will indeed. I'm curious if it's just me.
A fingerprint is an identification, not a passphrase. On top of that a fingerprint is very easy to obtain (especially on an iPhone where it might even by ready available on the button that reads it). A PIN on the other hand is a passphrase. The fact that a fingerprint is very unique doesn't mean that it isn't easy to discover and replicate or that it's difficult to use a copy of it.
They should have written that, then. Instead they wrote "to be a witness against himself".

Considering that the legal entire legal system practically runs on fine definitions such as these (witness against oneself != implicate oneself), and also considering that it's a judge's job to attempt to successfully translate a centuries old document based on jurisprudence, case law, etc, your opinion on intention is worth precisely jack and squat.

(As is mine and pretty much everyone else's here...)
The LGPL means there will still be code dumps, but the development process has been closing for some time (e.g. WebKit2 process changes).
Which has what to do with the price of tea in china?
I'm just speculating here... but I think it could be done PC-to-PC up to 100mbit. IIRC, there's a "link" signal that normally exists -- you'll have to configure both cards to ignore the link signal. (Which, I suppose, would mean that this wouldn't work going to a switch or hub with factory-default firmware.)

Half-duplex, 100mbit, ignore link. I suppose it can be done?....
finally, welcome in the 21st century.
Whoops; I'm an idiot. The request had a UA of LibreOffice. Looks like Dropbox has indeed moved on from Crocodoc. My bad.
> As a mechanical engineer I see tons of mechanical components in the human body. Diaphragm pumps, ball and socket joints, pinned joints, tensile supports.

The chemical engineer points at the vast complexity of enzyme catalysed reactions and intricate supply chains of nutrients.

The electrical engineer observes the networked structure of the nervous system, the myriad signal processing pipelines built all from similar, near-standard components, yet ultimately giving rise to consciousness.

...and the civil engineer gets the blame for routing a hazardous waste pipeline through a recreational area.
TWTTR would be interesting since that was the original name of the service.
As a native English speaker, they are perfectly synonymous for me.
If your notions of "vibe or culture" include race, it's illegal and wrong.

If a white guy and a black guy are dressed the same, and the black guy gets turned away...
One thing you don't know or faced yet is that mongo fails, and sometimes it fails so hard that you would rather kick some rocks.

For example, if you start a background index generation on an eventually consistent replica set, indexing on secondary nodes are done foreground. Which means you only accept reads from slaves but slaves are unresponsive because of the index generation. In this state, if you try to do anything fancy your data will go corrupt. Only way out is to wait through the outage (which I find it pretty hard to do so). This is still not solved in 2.4, waiting for 2.6.

Replica sets with all secondaries which can't elect a primary because it lost a node, or the mostly random primary-secondary switches that drops all connections, seldomly primary reelecting itself meanwhile dropping connections for no apparent reasons. Mongo offers tin foil hats for integrity, consistency and reliability. So yeah, I'd rather examine and understand why an SQL query is slow. Because it is at least deterministic, which in mongo nothing really is.

Postgres supports free form json, XML or hstore document formats by the way, couchDb has its own specific features as a document db too. I still don't see why people want to go on with mongo this bad.
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Certainly context is relevant. Understanding who is saying something and what their motives are helps you to judge how likely facts are to be true, and how much weight you should attach to opinions.

Calling some work into question because of the authors' motives isn't a claim that some other group has no ulterior motives at all. Certainly everyone has some motives, otherwise we would never get out of bed. But some of those motives will change the discussion more than others. E.g. when HP sponsors a study that finds that their own ink works out cheaper than buying remanufactured cartridges, it's perfectly sensible to be more suspicious of that than if a study by a consumer organisation found the same thing.
Avahi Daemon is the server side used in the Raspberry Pi.
The client side is ZeroConf https://help.ubuntu.com/community/HowToZeroconf

Both run freely on Linux. On Windows you can try this Mono Implementation http://mono-project.com/Mono.Zeroconf
Maybe I'm missing something here, but if you are connecting to Coder then you can't access the internet? I'd imagine that having the learning material side by side (from sites like Codecademy) would be really handy. If you set this up in a classroom would everyone be able to access it through the browser and work on individual projects?
Perhaps the person is about to reinstall the OS on the Dell computer and hence wants to download all the drivers onto another disk...
Yeah, the online attack defence like a short password is sufficient to defeat most attacks so long as root is not enabled, and Google/Apple don't comply to remotely unlock the device or reset the password (or you have all google framework apk's ripped out, or not built). The phone should reboot or wipe itself, or timeout or do something besides allowing unlimited attempts.

The offline attack you need a password suitable for protecting against police GPU cloud running john the ripper. Android you can set this up (2 different passwords), but should then make a script that deletes adb and su, add it to rc.local and reboot. Also helps to sabotage the recovery partition so it deletes user data should anybody try to flash something to system image

There's also mobiflauge, which is experimental deniable encryption and has 2 passwords, one to open a decoy install and one for your secret files full of stolen government intel you took pictures of to fool casual searches, and not ripped apart JTAG forensics.
Maybe, it will be one of the harder exploits to code, but very effective to disable certain apps or hide other backdoors. Reprogramming the microcode would be a virus-writer's dream come true, too. Knowing how to do it is probably very hard, as it is probably some RTL.

Intel started releasing reprogrammable microcode after the FDIV bug in the original Pentium made them replace a few hundred thousand CPUs. With programmable microcode, they could replace this operator.
I gotta disagree with you on "benevolent". Twitter's been mistreating their developers for quite some time now.

http://developingzack.blogspot.com/2012/09/wait-what-twitter...

http://www.androidpolice.com/2013/02/26/falcon-pro-developer...
Empowering your workers with a share of their productivity and a voice in the business that elevates them beyond a flesh body moving its limbs is a slippery slope in an age of attempted wage slavery on a global scale.

/conspiracy
Here's what the author picks as his lead off example of how conference culture revolves around binge drinking:

> Graham Lee says that, as a speaker, he doesn't want to be in some private 'speaker room', he wants to be in the 'attendee room'. He qualifies what he means by 'attendee room': the bar. Sounds about right.

He cites this tweet of Graham Lee:

> Conferences: don't put me in a speaker room. The speaker room is the attendee room and is usually also known by the name "bar".

Seriously...a guy preferring to be in the bar than in a "speakers room" indicates binge drinking!?
Would be even cooler with integrated Google Street View!
100+% bonuses still exist, but for VP and higher and in high-performing groups. Analysts aren't getting those post-2008.

Typically a VP in a high-performing group will outrank an ED or MD in a lower-ranking group (say, $150+300k vs. $300+100k).
Not all advertising is direct response (ie: looking at dollars in vs dollars out in specific advertising channels). There will always be a Coca-Cola or a P&G that care more about eyeballs than direct sales.
I don't even know if common linux distributions even support the right combination of drivers and gnupg to even support 4096-bit RSA keys. I tried this a couple of times over the last two years or so, and there was always some bug, or it was fixed in a later version not in the repos yet.
I found your post insightful and beneficial. Experienced much of it myself. Also, I've had similar arguments with other wannabe entrepreneurs at the start of their path. Hopefully the HN community can benefit from your experiences.
The endless criticism of Microsoft over the last 20 years was generally that they're not open source and had anti-competitive practices (ex, the browser wars.) How exactly has Microsoft's comeuppance had anything to do with these aspects? Their fall has been due to their shitty design sense and their inability to see the PC era ending.
I think the OP has a point - and its much harder to see when you're a member of the majority. There IS a culture of drinking in the programming profession. And some comments I see here remind me of comments I have seen when when other demographics complain about feeling excluded in this profession: "stop whining," "deal with it," etc. I think that there is some fear that these complaints will somehow "ruin the fun" for everyone else. I do think that the average age of conference attendees has much to do with it (and probably has more than a little to do with some of the other issues i.e. sexist treatment). A little maturity can go a long way towards easing these issues....
Nobody saved it. It just got sold off.
Minecraft was publicly released as an early alpha in 2009, and there was not a full release until 2011. Thisstands as an example proving that a clearly unfinished game can be released and iterated into a much better game than the developer could have created in isolation.

The trick was that the state was described honestly. It was offered cheaply. Upgrades were always free, but the next version always cost more. This set expectations properly.

If Notch can do it, and you want to, maybe you should try it.
To me, the interesting part isn't that the file was read. What has me interested is that this is a clear attack vector.

Want some free EC2 time? Wrap your workload in a .doc and have Dropbox foot the bill.
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I assume you have the same criticism of Obama's address?
Files are inaccessible with a smartphone though, that's what's lacking. But that said, no centralized server is a killer feature.
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