skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Does it matter? They are purposefully inserting themselves into a stream of information which they largely have no business being a party to.

If (when?) this proxy service is compromised are they willing to be accountable for any information which leaks? I can't imagine wanting to even take on this risk (maybe I'm too conservative).

Edit: I just want to add - yes, it's interesting. Yes, it's sleazy.
Thanks for this comment, nostromo. You've managed to address privacy problems with the Linkedin Intro while praising the technical solution. This is a great example of constructive criticism that I, for one, would like to see more on HN. Constant raging decreases the efficiency of knowledge transfer and community building.

Maybe one such comment / thread would be enough to significantly increase quality of a discussion.
I'm not sure your concern is warranted. Your bank provides a lot of protection against such fraudulent transactions, both at the time of authorization and after the fact if one does slip through. In any case, if you're really worried about your card number being stolen use a secondary card that you use for internet use only that just lives in your "backup wallet".

You're spending more of your life entering your credit card number every month than is likely to be spent dealing with fraud.
I agree with this up to a point. I think there should be little that limits people from being able to invest as much as they want but then you have to consider the same limitations with IRAs and 401Ks. Not saying investing in a new startup is just like investing in an IRA or 401K but I can certainly understand it from that perspective.

Maybe the answer isn't limiting the amount that can be invested but increasing oversight on the companies people are investing in. No one wants to be taken for a ride even though the risk is above average in this case.
LinkedIn latches onto mobile to alter its identity
Careers 2.0: Savvy Lead Developer for a Sexy App
It's very hard to get people behind a vision in a loosely decoupled system. People are going to implement their little things, solving their own problems, achieving a local maxima but it takes vision to create a coherent system. And look, Canonical is trying to do that and the reaction they get is bitching about MIR and other technologies they introduce. I wish somebody out there had a strong enough leadership to align all those efforts in a coherent product. I'm hoping to see a strong desktop leader emerge at some point.

Also have you considered that the promise of customization that you get from the various Linux distros is what makes you unsatisfied ? If you choose OSX or Windows you don't have much choice but to adapt. I remember when first using OSX how frustrated I was by the window manager but over time somehow I got used to it. With Linux I would have gotten into a hunt of the perfect (tiling) window manager, which then wouldn't work with system notifications and there goes another hour to find a solution. Then fix GDM or something else because my customizations don't work with the rest of the system... And every change introduces a new learning curve. Then you're not only a user but also a system designer.
Sidenote: They updated their WP plugin today as well http://wordpress.org/plugins/subtome/
If you look at one of LinkedIn's alternate applications, LinkedIn Contacts, http://contacts.linkedin.com/ it actually is a light-weight CRM application. The CRM meaning, it automatically connects to your email and calendar to your LinkedIn account to know when and how you are interfacing with people. I get a daily email with the meetings that I had the day before about who I met, as well as information on their LI profile about the last email conversation I had with them. This is super nice if you meet a bunch of people and need a way to take notes on who they are and what they are doing, independent of their business card.

The contacts application also sends things like reminders for your contacts work anniversaries or when they change positions (something that you can't access in the LI API).

I sometimes think that I shouldn't be giving LI all of this information, but this is a typical case where the benefit received is greater than my privacy concerns.
Which parts would Apple have an issue with? The proxy server is the only part I can think of. Using images, CSS, and iframes in Mail is presumably a very deliberate feature.
Much of this is nonsense.

This, for instance:

"If you get infected with a deadly viral disease, like rabies, it's curtains. There's nothing any hospital can do for you except sedate you until you're dead."
As someone who suffered for 7 years being treated for dermatitis when I had chronic undiagnosed IgE (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immunoglobulin_E) issues, this looks perfect.

The effects of my intolerances as they are referred to is that whenever I ingest anything containing (almost 160+ other things) eggs, dairy, cereals, fructose, vinegars, anything with Soy/Tofu, apple skin, tomato skin, yeast, and over ripe bananas I have serious mood changes, not to mention GI issues, and suffer with dermatitis on my face and arms. It is also characterised by bloody boils deep in the skin in fatty (I'm 70Kg, 183cm and 13% body fat, so that's relative) areas of my body.

This went undiagnosed for so long, that I never counted on a cure, and, in fact there isn't a cure, my body has become allergic to those foods for some reason, and eventually it may be that my immune response subsides, and I can once again enjoy them.

(Note about how thrilled I was to hear about Soylent, and then how dismayed that they decided to hone in on the cheapest possible recipe, at the expense of the "Pea" protein variant which might have been suitable for me)

I think the meals/feels app could make a difference to any hackers who take the time to use it.

For anyone else, who thinks they may have allergies/intolerances similar to mine, beware that topical allergy testing won't catch it, but a focused blood panel for IgE response might. As far as typical reaction times go, GI disorder can set in anything from instantly, to 24 hours later, and the effects on my mood, and skin, etc have lead time of anything from 24-100 hours, and a recovery time of as much as three weeks.
Most of the C stuff here is pretty good, but some of the C++ information is a little questionable. Even the "good programmer" exhibits a few common misconceptions about inheritance and virtual destructors. Here's the text from slide 348:

"What is the point of having a virtual destructor on a class like this? There are no virtual functions so it does not make sense to inherit from it. I know that there are programmers who do inherit from non-virtual classes, but I suspect they have misunderstood a key concept of object orientation. I suggest you remove the virtual specifier from the destructor, it indicates that the class is designed to be used as a base class - while it obviously is not."

She's right that the class described on the slide probably shouldn't have a virtual destructor.

A base class should have a virtual destructor if and only if objects of its derived class are to be deleted through base class pointers.

The following four statements are wrong:

1. A class with other virtual functions should have a virtual destructor.

2. A class without other virtual functions should not have a virtual destructor.

3. A class designed to be a base class should have a virtual destructor.

4. You shouldn't inherit from classes that don't have virtual functions.

It's a narrow-minded to say that programmers who inherit from "non-virtual" classes have "misunderstood a key concept of object orientation." Which key concept is that, by the way? Object orientation isn't the be all and end all of C++. There are reasons to use inheritance that have nothing to do with run-time polymorphism. Maybe you just want to reduce redundancy and organize your data types in terms of each other.

Another gripe is that on slide 369, she says:

"When I see bald pointers in C++ it is usually a bad sign."

Naked pointers should usually be avoided for memory management. That's true. But they make great iterators, and they're useful, along with references, for passing objects to functions.

On the other hand, seeing the keywords "new" and "delete" in code is usually a bad sign. Resources (not just memory) should be managed by resource management classes. If you try to do it manually, especially in the presence of exceptions and concurrency, it's very easy to cause an inadvertent resource leak.
> Bacteria both evolve resistance quickly, they also lose it just as quick.

Alas, experiments have shown that it is possible for resistant strains to strongly reduce the cost of resistance maintenance. If there are no naive invaders, this can lead to an evolutionary stable situation where the maintenance of resistance is less costly than losing it.

See Lenski's (old) review "Bacterial evolution and the cost of antibiotic resistance"
Build GitHub like notifications with Django messages and AngularJS
Well if they said "popped some dry ice balloons at LAX" people would not be fearful that their safety was in danger. But that is exactly what they are, balloons not bombs.
Do you think that Sublime Text is a completely original work, or largely a clone of text editors that came before it? If the latter, then I'm not sure what copying has to do with open source, other than people who are involved with open source give away the copy instead of trying to make a living off of it.
I think it's called "freemium"?
Has Change.org ever led to an actual change? I just don't see the utility of petitions. They never seem to work.

Consider the utter ineffectuality of the "We the People" petition site. Thousands of people signed petitions to abolish the TSA and (shockingly!) nothing happened.
It very much depends on what the goal is. GNU/Linux is already extremely popular on server, on embedded devices and on smartphones in the form of Android.

Now why wouldn't we want it to become a desktop platform with mass appeal? It certainly would improve the situation for existing Linux desktop users insofar as commercial attractiveness is directly proportional to the size of the user base. A greater number of users could for instance make it more likely for game developers to port their products to Linux. It also forces hardware manufacturers to pay more attention to their Linux drivers or risk being outdone by their competitors. It could, furthermore, prompt companies to port their specialised commercial software (e.g. Photoshop) to Linux. All in all I'm unable to see the downside of strengthening the Linux ecosystem.
Paying a lobbying firm to push a particular policy is quite different than bribing a public official. Lobbying isn't, by and large, an act of "hey here's a $50 why don't you look the other way." It's: "hey, your staff doesn't have time to write a bill so here's some proposed text." Or: "hey, here is this study we commissioned showing that global warming is a sham, so you have something to throw back at people who claim you're being unscientific."

Lobbying involves a ton of leg-work and that's not free.
Soundcloud is probably known to more people than Wunderlist.
turbo pascal is as unsafe as C is, just with more verbose syntax.

it has pointers, pointer arithmetic, manual memory allocation, function pointers, casts, unions, you name it.

I bet you could write could write 30 odd rules for cpp and then compile your "pascal" with cc, e.g.:

#define begin {

#define end }

#define := =

#define ^ *

#define @ &

and so on
Arbor Networks & Google draw digital-attack map
This is the craziest thing I have seen all week!

Short clips of people looking utterly bewildered flying by while a GIF of what I can only assume is the creator trying to explain the features of the site by pointing. All mixed in with large cubes of meat!
RATE LIMITING PLEASE
Introducing SmartStack: Service Discovery in the Cloud
Let me do what I hope will be a smart test here by sharing some more information and asking some follow-up questions. I invite onlookers to comment about this too.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (the same organization that employs the expert quoted in the article submitted to open this thread) reports that "Although MRSA is still a major patient threat, a CDC published in the Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine showed that invasive (life-threatening) MRSA infections in healthcare settings are declining. Invasive MRSA infections that began in hospitals declined 54% between 2005 and 2011, with 30,800 fewer severe MRS infections. In addition, the study showed 9,000 fewer deaths in hospital patients in 2005 versus 2011."[1] So there are responses already in place that are gaining on antibiotic-resistant bacteria in hospital settings in the United States.

I care about the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. I am gravely concerned about the medical and public-health practices in India that have resulted in a massive increase in patients infected there with multiple-antibiotic-resistant tuberculosis.[2] I am 100 percent behind the idea that antibiotics have to be used cautiously and responsibly, and meanwhile we have to keep researching other means of infection control besides antibiotics.

You wrote,

We evolve through copying of other's genes, simulation and symbiosis (yes, genes can simulate the effect other genes will have on them.

Do you really mean "we" there? Are you saying that this mechanism in any way makes it impossible for human beings to eradicate harmful microorganisms? How? Please connect the dots to back up your conclusion that

Once a fully resistant bacterial strain evolves, a process that takes between decades and centuries, all other species of bacteria will quickly copy the resistance, in a matter of months to years

because the "all" there and the time scale you talk about both appear to be exaggerations, especially in light of the progress that has already occurred in limiting MRSA infections in the United States.

[1] http://www.cdc.gov/mrsa/healthcare/index.html

[2] http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB1000142405270230344420...

http://www.tbcindia.nic.in/

http://articles.economictimes.indiatimes.com/2013-06-23/news...
For the record I love it, great job!
Fully agree.... someone was being a total troll on there. w0mp.
Especially popular among employers is offering unpaid internships. But, hey, you'll get experience, and you're passionate about your job, right?
How Cheating Got Me a First-Class Flight to London
Star Wars in the JS code on healthcare.gov (search for Chewbacca)
Show HN: octo, parallel remote commands
No flood protection whatsoever is making this even more useless than it was previously.
this is awesome, i wish I had a mac to make use of it. Are there any good alternatives to this on windows?
Well, it surely was lacking in the evidence department.

However, it certainly squares with my experience. Heck, I was up at 430am this morning, standing in my garage and giving an impromptu lecture to my clothes dryer about the math behind Kalman filters and Dempster-Shafer theory, because I had some ideas in my brain burning to get out, and talk out loud imaginary lectures do that for me (YMMV). Kind of hard to get that kind of solitude and privacy in a workplace where you have to measure every 15 minutes of productivity, or work in a open work space, or, you get the idea.
Okay, let me back-track a little and clarify my point. Yes, I mean Linux desktop. Linux server/routers/other operational devices has seen widespread adoption. I largely disagree with your assessment that it's user friendly, I've spent the last month fighting with my Linux router just to get built in features to work properly for one reason or another. But that's another story and I'm sure is related more to my incompetence with that distro of Linux than it is to anything else.

However, touching on that point (my incompetence with Linux), I'd say I'm largely representative of the non-Linux-professional crowd... even with my nerdclination. If something is that much of a pain in the ass for non-professionals to pick up and use, it just won't see such widespread adoption.
Work versus Life. Greatness versus Family
Feeling smart
When searching https://www.healthcare.gov/marketplace/global/en_US/js/ee/du..., you can also find:
* Han
* Solo
* Leia
* Organa
* Optimus
* Prime
> Did anybody else spend half a minute trying to interact with the "app", then give up and close the tab

Nope, sorry. Looked like a pretty obvious screenshot to me. The palettes in the screenshot are way too small for me to confuse it for a web app.

Also, most people will probably get this from the Mac App Store, which has a very different presentation.
While you're in that hospital, ask what their procedure is if you've been infected with rabies within the past week. It's most certainly not "curtains and sedation."

Just that bit of factual nonsense leads me to believe you are speaking far out of your area of expertise.
Gmail Site has a new interface
The person creating that list was a bit too "greedy". I certainly wouldn't have added a well-established café like St. Oberholz to that list.
While there seem to be repos for some of the projects already (https://github.com/assemblymade), there doesn't seem to be one for Support Foo, yet. When will this repo go live?
> They want those dispensaries shut down

Do they? There's nothing stopping them from doing this right now, which they prove to us by occasionally shutting down some dispensaries. This is just a scare tactic to remind us that they have the power to shutdown dispensaries. Logically (I believe those in real power in government are logical), the government should treat state marijuana dispensaries as controlled experiments. Therefore, their continuing operation lies in the federal government's best interest.

What the government does want is for the state marijuana dispensaries to follow state regulations. The federal government knows they can influence regulations on marijuana dispensaries far more than they can influence the existence of them. Effectively, the government is saying to the state legislatures "you can have marijuana dispensaries, but they better be tightly regulated."

So it's in the best interest of both state and federal governments that the dispensaries follow the regulations set forth by the state governments. A company helping dispensaries follow those regulations will therefore also be in the best interest of everyone.

If your company has dispensary clients in multiple states with separate regulations, and you maintain software for each state's regulations, then you will be in an excellent position when the federal government makes its first official pro-marijuana statement.
It wouldn't even need to be a poorly written component. There is a good chance they would log the card number along side the transaction in their database.
> Bacteria, like any living organism, want to survive. They are adapted that way, and any successful bacteria is the bacteria that’s most able to survive in the environment. So bacterial resistance is largely inevitable, because bacteria will always change in order to survive.

That's not how evolution works.
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I could write a laundry list of things, but like you, I'm too busy wasting time on Hacker News... when really I should go back to trying to research how to fix them :P
Actually no. Linux has very widespread adoption from computer users and very little adoption from appliance users. That is because many of the things appliance users do with their computers (print things, play videos, listen to podcasts) require a specialized knowledge and an ability to parse user forums in order to work on Linux. There is no one to call up when Ubuntu doesn't print, there is no one listening at 1-800-PULS-AUDIO to answer questions about setting your mixer so your headphones turn off the speakers when they are plugged in. And perhaps, the most damning is when you buy a product that is used with a "computer" it rarely says on the package "Works with Linux" while it does say Windows and OS X.

Why not just accept that those people, the people who could care less about whether or not they can change their window manager or if Qt is better than GTK2 will never want to use Linux . They don't want to use a computer, they want to run "apps" which do something they want (play a game, or calculate their taxes, or help them write a letter). The more the underlying complexity of the system is reduced to zero the better, which is anathema to 99% of the FOSS community so it never ends up in the release.
"they don't seek out anything"
Google siderophore, bacteria seek out iron and can do it pretty efficiently.
Idaho court confiscates software developer’s computer because it contained copy of source code involved in property dispute.

I probably hope he wins and gets it back, but there's nothing to see here.
Such fun!
do you have any data to support these assertions. I'm interested and not dismissing your opinions, but I'd love some backup information to this.
Video about the demo at RealTimeConf here https://vimeo.com/77376238
This is really problematic, since I been using Gmail + Apple Mail for basically...ever. I guess it's time to stop putting off moving to a more full featured client.

Speaking of which, any recommendations for clients that feature a Mailbox-esque "remind" or "save for later" option? It looks like, of those linked in the story, only Mail Pilot offers one. However, their desktop client isn't yet available. Stock web-based Gmail is no good, since I have a ton of different addresses I use on the regular (no, they can't be unified, they're for different organizations), and the logging in/out is a huge pain. Plus I desperately need notifications, or I'll be even less organized with email than I already am.
Reduce high cpu utilization from Mail:
Spotlight -> Disable Mail & Messages
http://www.insanelymac.com/forum/topic/290194-apple-mail-hig...
Oh, I did notice. The same prompt you get when installing any software. However, my user/password and the disk decrypt password are different passwords, no?
These engineers must be from a different species - my experience with HW is that it's very hard to change anything in a week, especially when you're building 100000. Then again, they have everything under one roof so they can probably just walk over to the PCB designer and then walk some more to the guy setting up the manufacturing equipment, who has reels of every known component in stock.

I'm curious what they change but web searches just return the same three sound bites.
Freemium = offering a free service (sometimes with ads) with premium upgrade options.

That's different from a "free trial", because there really is no way to use our app for free on an ongoing-basis without paying for it.
As do I, I'm a sucker for all web cauldrons of weirdness, case in point:
http://artichoke.meatspac.es/post/126

Also, I'm not sure what these are:
http://carne.meatspac.es/
http://artichoke.meatspac.es/
The field has to accept some knowledge deficits if it's going to pretend to meet business demands. I thought the original post heavily implied that the 'dumber' programmer shouldn't be hired or have a job; are we going to turn away all potential C programmers until they've mastered everything that the 'smarter' programmer knew? I'd say that would heavily discourage new C programmers if they had to commit to mastering all of that before they could think about getting a position. That would lead to shortages, of course.