skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is called "Out of the box" job. We always cry and blame that we are not in this company, not in this field, not in that area if i be there i make some changes.But the truth is we only know how to talk.
You prove yourself with your work. Nothing is small and nothing is Big. Matter is how we done our job, passion and work with awesomeness. I am 100% sure if we give this work to any other he will definitely say "i can't do such type silly and small work for this i ll hire workers and carpenters " the main reason is, that person feeling guilt and think it's a small job.
we can't change others mind but must have to learn from that type of work. Thanks sir to give me a positive hope. Respect from heart
Austin Powers Holler at Girls
The low-rent-show model is almost exactly what Amazon ended up going with, and to be frank, the shows are crap. Nobody joined Prime for those. Netflix apparently knows they have to have solid shows with name-brand talent for anyone to care.
As someone famous once said, "Corporations are people, my friend."

But seriously, please stop with the "fiduciary responsibility to stockholders" crap, as if that's the only responsibility people have to each other.

Too many companies extract profit for themselves by imposing negative externalities on their employees, on taxpayers, and on the environment. We can't legislate all of this away, so there's a healthy role for shame, for protest, and for boycott.

By the way, it's possible to care for your employees AND make a profit. Costco treats their employees well and still makes a killing for their stockholders.
Apple CFO Oppenheimer Says Carbon-Balanced ‘Campus 2′ Will Foster Collaboration
The only important discussion to have is "how can we improve our scientific method." Complaining about deficiencies without offering improvements is not particularly useful. There is no alternative to science.

The posters here that are suggesting that people should not trust science ought to be shunned. It is good to be skeptical of particular studies, but if you discard "science" you are reverting to a position of complete ignorance. Always remember that without an alternative model, if you discard a body of research the only valid fallback is that you don't know anything.
What motivates you to continue to work in that environment?
rtorrent supports magnet links just fine if you're using a recent version (As in one from the past year or two).
good call, definitely gotta fix that one. Thanks for the heads up :)
This is perfect. Nothing much else to say really. I am getting sick and tired of LinkedIn's spam and dodgy techniques when it comes to marketing. This should temporarily stop the spam until they decide to add more mail-out categories.

I cancelled my LinkedIn premium membership just before as well. As a premium user you still get spammed the same as a non-premium user and I can live without it. Vote with your wallet as they say. LinkedIn really need to re-valuate where they stand, you know a situation is desire when many people share a similar sentiment and you have to resort to using Javascript hacks to unsubscribe from email notifications, it shouldn't be this hard.
Show HN: WordsForThat.com - A new site that's like a reverse urban dictionary
My father was a paleontologist, albeit 30 years ago. I think what is happening with human fossils is that we have/are reaching a critical mass of knowledge that allows us to pinpoint with greater accuracy where to look. The thing starts to become self-perpetuating.

For fossils in general, there are more of us physically wandering on the surface of the planet, and we collectively are more familiar with what is a fossil, which leads to more discoveries.

As well, due to machinery such as excavators and tunnel diggers, we are digging in places we haven't dug before, either deeper or in hard-to-access rocks.

The big unexplored areas is (1) beneath the deserts, especially the Sahara, and (2) under the shallow seas.
Tracedroid - Dynamic Android app analysis (by VU Amsterdam)
Thesis

http://tracedroid.few.vu.nl/thesis.pdf

slide on HITB

http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013kul/materials/D2T2%20-%20Victor%20van%20der%20Veen%20-%20A%20Fast%20and%20Complete%20Android%20Method%20Tracer.pdf
R# 8.0.0 had a bug where it would crash VS from time-to-time. I ran `devenv /safemode` to load VS without any third party stuff in an attempt to identify the problem and my god, it was fast.

I have a 28 project solution, and with R# the IDE is still plenty fast but every so often I think about just how fast VS was without plugins.
I'm not sure that I believe that a petition with "many signatures" will force them to "have to change the law". Even if that were the case, the email says this person stayed with a New York host, they are most likely not New York residents themselves so how is this any leverage against politicians since your vote doesn't matter to them.
You're not giving anyone your private key here, either.

stellar678 is basically correct - Apple, like a CA, is vouching for the authenticity of users' public keys. The only difference is superficial: a SSL CA signs a certificate and the validation is done without needing to contact the CA, whereas with iChat the public key is validated by virtue of coming from Apple. Just as a CA can sign a malicious certificate, Apple can send you a malicious public key.
Thesis

http://tracedroid.few.vu.nl/thesis.pdf

slide on HITB

http://conference.hitb.org/hitbsecconf2013kul/materials/D2T2...
Verizon blew the Google relationship with the LTE Galaxy Nexus. It was the flagship Google device at the time but Verizon decided to block Google Wallet on it. Then Verizon held back the Jelly Bean updates for months, which is something that isn't supposed to happen on "Nexus" devices. I think since then Google has learned their lesson and steered clear of partnering with Verizon for anything.
Definitely won't mind the larger screen if the physical dimensions are actually smaller.
Check out qubes os if you don't want to trust your kernel to enforce your mandatory access controls (you DO only allow certain applications/users/groups/roles/OS's/Hypervisors/etc... to do certain things, DON'T YOU??). Xen is a smaller attack surface, and depending on how much of a pain in the ass you consider having all of your files stolen and deleted being, there are many options for locking it down quite a lot. XSM-Flask if you are too paranoid, Hypersafe for control flow attacks + invariant violation detection tools for non-control data attacks over nested hypervisors if you are resolute.
Someone explain for us normals.
Here's an anectode in support of Excel. My 12 y.o. son was doing a project on seasons and climates, and he asked me whether it rains more in cold weather. And he gave me a certain line of reasoning.

Since real teaching moments can be hard to come by, I suggested we not stop there, but look at the data. Climate information is readily available on the internet, and we used Excel to plot out whether there were correlations.

Excel on its own has little value, but as a tool, it can make analysis painless and encourage people to form hypothesis and check them out quickly.
You expect us to believe that you have developed substantive critiques of a 3-year research project in 24 minutes of reading.

I don't expect you to "believe" anything. I expect you to look at the items I pointed out and see what you think of them. If you don't agree with them, feel free to give specific reasons why not.

your un-ironic reliance on the blog of a retired TV weather guy.

I didn't bring Watts into it; the Berkeley project did. I was merely commenting on something that Watts had emphasized but I didn't see mention of in the first set of links (lamontcg gave another link that does deal with that specific issue, I'll take a look at it).
Carbon dating is just a subset of radiometric dating. You can leverage the decay rates of (almost) any element to estimate the age of an object.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radiometric_dating#Fundamentals...)
Why on earth would anyone use symmetric crypto for license keys?
I think the whole point is that "should" and "shouldn't" simply aren't very useful concepts when dealing with corporations, like talking about what a slime mold should or shouldn't do. Getting morally outraged at WalMart is like getting really indignant about what plantar fasciitis is up to. Individuals will respond to moral accusations, but corporations are really only effectively controlled via legislation.
Thanks for the link, I'll take a look at it.

The data back to 1860 are also sufficient to establish the current warming trend

Only if you assume that there are no significant cyclic effects on longer time scales.

Climate science as a discipline does not hinge on knowing exactly how warm it was 250 years ago within +/- 0.5C.

It does if you're claiming, as the IPCC does based on the input of climate scientists, that temperatures now are warmer than they have been in at least several thousand years.
Because it is inconsistent, jarring I might say for no benefit to the user even after a year.

Yes, in many ways it is better than Windows 7 and in some ways it is better than OSX as Windows always has been. But in the most visible ways it is confusing, unnecessarily complex (with a minimalist style!) and get in the way of productivity obnoxiously.

1 example: Windows 8 changed the short cut for input method switching from Ctrl+Space to WinKey+Space, but take you to another dimension (aka Microsoft Design Language née Metro) with a stroke of the WinKey. Often for a multiple language user like myself, the OS beam me in and out of the full screen psychedelically colored app launcher during my Office™ sessions enough times to make me RAGE.
Someone PLEASE do this for meetup
It's more about customization and getting just what you want.

You can also have furniture built by a cabinetmaker or furnituremaker, though prices will vary. And the DIY cost (if you have access to tools) will almost certainly be less, though depending on your woodworking skills and the complexity of the design you use, results may or may not meet your expectations.

And the price of a _well-made_ desk is typically fairly high -- $800 - $1200 before you go too crazy with designs, and you can easily spend more.

I'm kind of partial to this one myself:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5OxVgH-T1I
>Always remember that without an alternative model, if you discard a body of research the only valid fallback is that you don't know anything.

In the field I am in (sports biomechanics), this would be a vast improvement on things.
>The fundamental problem as I see it: science can either produce a high rate of unreliable results or a low rate of reliable results, but the market demands a high rate of reliable results.

Well said, but the market will accept a high rate of unreliable results because no one knows better.
And knowing people or coming from money is the technological meritocracy?
RecDB - Personalization Recommendation using SQL
This is one of the scariest forms of attack on computing since viruses became prevalent in the nineties. The fact they were up until recently relatively undetectable adds another eerie dynamic to the situation. It highlights the aged old problem of people not pro-actively backing up their data offline until it's too late. Go out and buy a couple of cheap 1tb external drives and back your data up now and keep doing it, there are even tools and drives that handle this automatically for you.

While ransomware isn't anything new, the fact that the authors of such software are using currencies like Bitcoin make it that extra bit harder to track and stop these people from extorting data. I sense a new wave of ransomware is about to hit the scene now that Ars have revealed specifics about potentially making millions a year from such a racket. It's hard informing people about these things without encouraging others to go and try writing their own ransomware and expect Bitcoin as payment.

This really worries me.
That's very nice too, though aren't you going to be running into some legal issues by distributing their ROMs?
>Science proceeds slowly, and bad papers tend to be forgotten unless they're easily replicable. It just takes time.

Tell that to the large group of anti-vaccine zealots.
Start a blog and publish it openly. That's what I will be doing with my lab research. My mind was swayed when a friend's brother (aaronsw) took his life for at least partially this reason.
I understand your point, although I wonder if there are many more characters that are "top of the shelf" reference points for highly-principled artists... curious who you would've preferred?

[disclaimer: I have an undergraduate degree in English Literature, which doesn't mean ALL that much, tbh, but I've read a book or two.]
Hi Canterburry,
All the best with your new venture. I'm also in the quest for an interesting problem to hack. I saw your current project. Quite interesting. Actually the third example should read "Example fetch with explicit container height"
When I hear "toxins", I think of a developer on a project I helped manage. He was having health problems so he had to take a 1-1.5 month sabbatical to India to be cleansed of toxins. If I remember correctly the end result was that he quit.

While I do believe there that the body cleanses itself from toxins, and I can't say for certain whether the developer that left us got his toxins cleansed or not, this article and study smells of B.S.

The second tip off is the quoted doctor's name: Dr. Nedergaard

Scientists with Dutch/Scandinavian names always seem to produce the most crap science on average in my experience. I have no idea why, but I've noticed it. Especially when it comes to the "positive affects" of pot. I know that is an over-generalization, but someone should do a study on that to see if it's true. Preferably one without as many A's in his/her last name.
It's not that I know of the specific seller. I have never consumed LSD. I have never been on the SR and now obviously never will. However, you included so many details to demonstrate the rigor of your process, yet you didn't explain how you knew you were even using LSD, which seems to be far and away the single most important detail of the experiment. Now you have!
Because in-house contracts never go overbudget.
WiFi Wobbling Hand Gestures Could Control Home
Another option is using Grunt with the watch plugin.
Most likely, the chinese government can/does tell Apple to decrypt certain msg or don't do biz in China, similar to what India government told RIM.
Haha, you don't need intent, you just need to joke about doing it online. Conspiracy to commit.
No - not at all. We're doing this right now and we've structured the change by using QDeclarativeView/QtQuickView within our existing QWidget architecture. Depending on how you want to structure your application, using QML can be as easy as converting a widget/dialog/form at a time and allowing the C++ code to drive the QML, or going for a full re-write with the core of the program in QML with C++ helpers bound to it.

QWidget isn't going anywhere. If "Qt Widget -> QML" is an unpleasant "complete rewrite of your app" then don't do it. Stick with QWidget.
Tried that-- didn't seem to help.
I use VS2008 for C++ and VS2012 for .NET. I upgraded our C++ projects to VS2012 as a proof-of-concept and build times went from 5 minutes to 15.

Our projects aren't particularly great, virtually everything is in stdafx.h directly or indirectly and small changes results in rebuilding. The increase in build time would have hurt us.

VS2013 is a bit faster (~10 minutes, last time I checked) but still a bit of a hit. Allegedly this is due to the extra time parsing the C++11 language bits.

I don't think this is a huge deal (our code should be better), rather something to bear in mind.

Also, if you recreate your project instead of upgrading it you'll end up with a default instruction set of SSE2 (instead of SSE) and your exe will suddenly not run on Athlon XP-era chips.

Upgrading is not something to be done lightly.
I don't shop at Wal-Mart because of their Union busting but last time I went to Costco there were a handful of "floor" employees wandering around to be found if you needed help. Costco pays its employees well because their CEO thinks happy employees lead to better workers[1]. In fact the last big box store I shopped at which was Home Depot had less people around to help than Costco. I realize that's anecdotal but you can't write down high employee salaries as "Being just a wholesaler".

[1]http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-06-06/costco-ceo-c...
Just came across RecDB a full recommendation engine build inside PostgreSQL.
When I first saw the title, I thought it went like this:

1. Your machine is infected, and it encrypts everything it can.

2. The 72 hour countdown begins, and during that time your machine has been re-purposed to crunch BitCoins.

3. All you have to do is wait 72 hours, and everything will un-encrypt and uninstall, leaving you perfectly fine.

Creators profit by having millions of machines crunching BitCoins in their name.
Seems unlikely. Essentially all animals with a brain sleep, even flies. You'd need to find a pill that could do something that not one animal was able to evolve to do over hundreds of millions of years. Something that was extremely calorie intensive is all I can imagine.
If you add networking support to this amazing project, I think some crazy development environment tools are waiting for us.
Yeah, I'm so spoilt with all those wizards VS gives me for editing MSBuild targets...
There is a chromebook remote desktop app made by Google. Not sure how good it is since I've never tried, but heard good things.
The US fighting Iraq was more about being able to defeat a tangible foe and make it look like something was being done in the wake of the WTC attacks - punching ghosts in Afghanistan wasn't providing the balm the politicians were looking for.

The invasion of Iraq was more about that "Mission Accomplished" banner for the domestic market than actually doing anything for Iraqis and their neighbours.
Chrome has its own Remote Desktop which allows it to connect to a Chrome server on another machine. It currently supports Windows and Mac as the remote desktop. Chromebooks are supported as one of the clients.

https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/chrome-remote-desk...
Any implications for napping?
What we don't know: shit.
Are you really comparing Excel's place in computing to the Quadratic formula's place in mathematics?
There's no link to DreamSpark on the download page [1]

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng#downloads
Perhaps you know much more about this than I do. My memory is that the Lancet authors were serious, qualified researchers who had done much similar work in the past and whose objectivity had not previously been disputed. If there's a critique to be made of their work, a snarky "that can't be right" blog post certainly doesn't cut it. The authors of the new PLoS study say that they've taken into account criticisms of earlier work; I am sure they have the Lancet articles (among others) in mind, but I do not know the details.

The Iraq Body Count project has bothered me for years because they only count individually confirmable deaths. There is nothing wrong with that as documentary work, but there is something terribly wrong with citing the number of deaths so counted as anything like a credible total for the war, when it is obviously a severe lower bound. War is random and chaotic. Very many people die whose paperwork does not get filled out. It is painfully obvious that statistical techniques are required to arrive at a good estimate under such circumstances. Thus to cite the Iraq Body Count as the total number of deaths in the war is dishonest, yet that is exactly how it has routinely been cited, and I don't understand why they (or at least the people who quote them in media pieces) have not been called out on this more often.
there is no downvoting
I was hit by this, or a variant, at my place of business. Hundreds of thousands of files on our shared drive were overwritten, about 2 TB worth of files. Office documents, PDFs, and Adobe documents like PSD and INDD were encrypted. JPEGs were altered but still viewable. All files increased in size by a few hundred bytes.

Pull-only backups were the savior here, although because we didn't notice until the next day, the pulled backups on that system were also overwritten with encrypted/corrupt files. Luckily we had VSS versioning on the pull-only backup location. There was a close call in that the 2 TB or so of "new" data ended up pushing VSS over quota and we almost lost our good versions of the files that way. If not for the VSS versions, we would've had to resort to cold backups which would've been a bit older. As it stood, no file recovered was more than a few hours old.

Auditing on the file share indicates which workstation was infected. Pertaining to that: it surprises me that in 2013, a default install of Windows will not log any useful information about shared folders by default. You must enable object auditing in Group Policy and specifically declare which users or groups are subject to said auditing on a share-by-share basis. In a world without logrotate, I suppose a sensible default is to just let a bunch of shit happen without recording it.

What gets me wound up most of all is the amount of engineering involved for an average home user to protect themselves. I thought a Mac with Time Machine was enough, but a similar virus would easily corrupt those backups if they were available to it over a mapped drive.

It is the goddamn 21st century, and users are still losing work by overwriting documents by accident, or opening a document as an e-mail attachment and not being able to find the actual file they edited. Should people really need an IT guy with ten years of experience to be protected from simple mistakes? Google has made progress on that front with the Chromebook, I suppose.
I'm not saying that at all. I'm saying that it is what the Nuremberg principles say (as I understand them) and that this has not even seemed controversial in the past, as long as it was we who were applying the principles to others.

It's hardly fair to make those the principles of international justice when we are doing the judging but suspend them in the case of our own activities.
Apple retains multitouch patent
"We don't need hits to succeed." The game studio that refuses to crunch
> people use this
> what
The Ultimate Power
I wouldn't call that a superficial difference. Sending a malicious public key from a central server is easier than injecting a public key into a network stream. The former requires just a single entity to be compromised. The latter requires a compromise in the network in addition to a compromise in the CA.
Simply outrageous. What is next? Intellectual property on arithmetic?
I can't even fucking handle Hacker News
Massive asteroid could hit Earth in 2032
Yes, if the stock is sold under the agreement that part of what is being sold is everything you know about the company. Stocks generally aren't sold under such pretense or agreement and never have been (at least not any stocks I've traded).
Why humans and animals rely on social touch
I made the decision to purchase 12 Surface Pros for our company's executive team for their need of mobile computing and entertainment in the air. They are pretty, fits all the criteria on the paper and seem more business oriented than the iPad.

Worst career decision in the recent 5 years. It's too heavy; it does not last as long; sometimes it became unresponsive; it does not have the popular app of the month; Office lost certifications between continents(how such thing happened I have no clue) it had to be re-activated multiple times while I talked my boss through the process when he was literally in the tropical jungle with a bad cell signal; our legacy business applications craps out 3 times during the week anyway... the list goes on

Such fun.